reword and reformat description of `builtins.import`

I was sleepy and confused that "interpolated expression" was a new type of thing at first. This...

Use positive source filtering for the standalone functional tests job and Perl bindings

remove unnecessary indentation from markdown list

Additionally this skipping of the building is reimplemented to be a bit
more robust and use the ...

this makes it a bit easier to work with, as some tooling doesn't work
well with too much indenta...

Define NixOS tests in `tests/nixos/default.nix` rather than `flake.nix`

so far they did not really have a name, and were at best referred to as
"angle bracket syntax".

remove duplicate redirects entry

I think the our `flake.nix` is currently too large and too scary looking.
I think this matters -...

Put functional tests in `tests/functional`

I think it is bad for these reasons when `tests/` contains a mix of
functional and integration t...

Don't print unknown locations unless requested for dev purposes

add links and anchors

Don't run the tests that require building if we're not building

StorePath: reject names starting with '.'

This makes the numbers more deterministic, especially when it comes
to the final heap size.

refer to nix.dev for installation instructions

A couple of tests require building some libraries that depend on Nix,
and assume it to be built ...

Make sure that we're not accidentally rebuilding Nix here as it's just
wasteful and awful for CI...

add contributing guide for documentation

Enable most of the third `BuildResult` worker protocol test

the `term` output mode leaves inline HTML around verbatim, while `nroff`
mode (used for `man` pa...

This has been the behaviour before Nix 2.4. It was dropped in a rewrite
in 759947bf72c134592f0ce...

refactor the templates for readability

This was somewhat of a false alarm. The problem was not that the
protocol implementation actuall...

Test the rest of the worker protocol serializers

Part of the `BuildResult` test is commented out because we have caught a
roundtrip bug! A future...

structured attrs: improve support / usage of NIX_ATTRS_{SH,JSON}_FILE

Revert "Adapt scheduler to work with dynamic derivations"

This reverts commit 5e3986f59cb58f48186a49dcec7aa317b4787522. This
un-implements RFC 92 but fixe...

this addresses that we're too often running into open-ended discussions
about attempts to solve ...

In #4770 I implemented proper `nix-shell(1)` support for derivations
using `__structuredAttrs = ...

pathExists: isDir when endswith /.

contributor guide: emphasize solving a well-specified problem with each pull request

`libfetchers` improvements without `libflake`

this moves the orientation step to the beginning, and adds notes how to
make sure that a problem...

add information on release cycle and backports

add hint for troubleshooting tests

I don't know much about it, but by the number of times "flake" appears
in the code it seems like...

It's not just flakes, but also `builtins.fetchTree`. Also try to provide
some more info in general.

It isn't used, and doesn't belong in `libutil`.

This helps ensure uniform docs/error message.

Document fetchTree

Absolute attrPath notation ("flakeref#.attrPath")

string Value refactor

Mention `$DRV_PATH` in post-build-hook docs

Improve experimental-features error wording

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <[email protected]>

libexpr: construct ExprPath by move ctor, not copy cotr

Respect `NOCOLOR`

While `nix` has always been respectful towards requests for `NO_COLOR=1`, this change asks repre...

Create context, string_view, and c_str, accessors throughout in order to
better support improvem...

Seems like `legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.emacs.name` is accidentally shown twice.

Unit test some worker protocol serializers

fix docstring

realisation: reformat for readability

src/libstore/profiles.cc: fix comparison of sign difference

fix broken redirects script

fix broken reference link

document system features

* document "Import From Derivation"

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <[email protected]...

Implement support for percent encoded filepaths for flakerefs

restructure attribute listing to `derivation`

make the example more realistic, since `headers` is not an output name
used in Nixpkgs

Co-autho...

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <[email protected]>

derivations are about data transformation, so the term "build" does not
add any information. the...

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <[email protected]>