+ GitHub is a U.S.-based closed-source, proprietary Git forge & social media platform owned by Microsoft. +There is a gratis tier for repositories (terms apply). +When you write an input of this kind, you will substitute the owner & project slugs. +
++ How to pin a Micosoft GitHub repository with Nix + Nixtamal +
++ Letâs show the way using the Movim repository. +When you do this, you will substitute the owner & project slugs. +In most cases, you will want to prefer fetching the archive (Microsoft GitHub supports gzip) over the Git input kind. +git ls-remote is preferred by us for being more generic & anecdotally having less issues with throttling. +
++ Latest revision +
+// manifest.kdl +inputs { + movim { + archive { + url "https://github.com/movim/movim/archive/{{fresh-value}}.tar.gz" + } + } + fresh-cmd { + $ git ls-remote --heads "https://github.com/movim/movim.git" + | cut -f1 + } +}+
+ Latest release tag +
+// manifest.kdl +inputs { + movim { + archive { + url "https://github.com/movim/movim/archive/{{fresh-value}}.tar.gz" + } + } + fresh-cmd { + $ git ls-remote --tags --sort=v:refname "https://github.com/movim/movim.git" + | grep -E "'refs/tags/v([0-9]+\\.)+[0-9]+$'" + | tail -n1 + | sed "'s|.*refs/tags/||'" + } +}+