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Pinning darcs hub inputs using htmlq
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<a class="reference external" href="https://darcs.net/"><abbr title="Darcs Advanced Revision Control System">Darcs</abbr></a> is a distributed version control system (<abbr title="distributed version control system">DVCS</abbr>) that is focuses on <a class="reference external" href="https://darcs.net/Theory">patches</a> instead of snapshots.
At the time of writing, Nix flakes does not & cannot support Darcs input pinning requiring an input pinner like <a class="reference external" href="https://nixtamal.toast.al/"><cite>Nixtamal</cite></a> to automate it.
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How to pin a Darcs repository with Nix + Nixtamal using htmlq
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Letâs test the Darcs support by pinning <a class="reference external" href="https://hub.darcs.net">darcsden</a>, which is what runs <a class="reference external" href="https://hub.darcs.net/">darcs hub</a> and can be used to self host your own darcs repositories.
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<pre class="code kdl literal-block"><span class="c1">// manifest.kdl
</span><span class="nl">inputs</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">{</span><span class="nl">
</span><span class="nl"> darcsden</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">{</span><span class="nl">
</span><span class="nl"> darcs</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">{</span><span class="nl">
</span><span class="nl"> repository</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">"https://hub.darcs.net/simon/darcsden"</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">}</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="nl"> fresh-cmd</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">{</span><span class="nl">
</span><span class="nl"> $</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">curl</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">-sL</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">https:</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="nl"> |</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">htmlq</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">-t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">entry:first-of-type</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">id</span><span class="w">
</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">}</span><span class="w">
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