Re: [PATCH] Support building development version without git

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

Henri Menke <hen...@gm...> writes:

> The original motivation for this change was that I wanted to build the
> development version on NixOS.  In the Nix packaging system you can build
> stuff directly from a git checkout, but because the system emphasizes
> reproducible builds, the build cannot depend on the contents of the .git
> directory because these are actually non-deterministic (due to git gc),
> so two checkouts of the same commit may actually have a different .git
> directory.  This will lead to spurious build failures because the output
> hashes differ.
>
>     https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/8567
>     https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/20521
>
> I thought it would be a good idea to upstream the support for this but
> if this is too much of a pain here, I can also patch it locally.

Thanks for explaining. What would you do if this project was hosted
somewhere that doesn't make these snapshots available? Like github for
instance?