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This causes Git to create a local ref named refs/head/<rev>, e.g. $ git -C ~/.cache/nix/gitv3/11irpim06vj4h6c0w8yls6kx4hvl0qd0gr1fvk47n76g6wf1s1vk ls-remote --symref . 5c4410e3b9891c05ab40d723de78c6f0be45ad30 refs/heads/5c4410e3b9891c05ab40d723de78c6f0be45ad30 7f6bde8a20de4cccc2256f088bc5af9dbe38881d refs/heads/7f6bde8a20de4cccc2256f088bc5af9dbe38881d which confuses readHead(), leading to errors like fatal: Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/ warning: could not update cached head 'd275d93aa0bb8a004939b2f1e87f559f989453be' for 'file:///tmp/repo'
Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation and first steps
Visit nix.dev for installation instructions and beginner tutorials.
Full reference documentation can be found in the Nix manual.
Building and developing
Follow instructions in the Nix reference manual to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
Contributing
Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.
Additional resources
Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, published 2006. Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.
- The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org
- Official documentation on nix.dev
- Nixpkgs is the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world
- NixOS is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively
- Discourse
- Matrix
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.