# Pinning Microsoft GitHub Inputs | Nixtamal

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╹┗┛╹╱ ╹ ╹ ╹╹╹ ╹╹╹┗┛     Home      Install  Manpage  Changelog  Roadmap  Cookbook  Real-world showcase  Community  FAQs  Funding         Pinning Microsoft GitHub Inputs     GitHub is a U.S. -based closed-source, proprietary Git forge & social media platform owned by Microsoft.

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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  Let’s 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/||'"   }  }       Site made with Nix ( dep management), Nickel ( config ), Soupault ( SSG ), Docutils ( rST rendering), mandoc (manpage conversion), & sugilite256 (color scheme).  © 2025–2026 toastal .

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