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As someone who switches between nix2 and nix3 commands often, I was annoyed when nix build .#geballs (a package that I had just written for nixpkgs and run in the nixpkgs root on my pc) didn't work but nix-build -A geballs did. The nix3 command didn't tell me that the working tree was dirty, because obviously git didn't know about it until I had staged it, so I kept getting the errors
error: flake 'git+file:///home/dre/Projects/nixpkgs' does not provide attribute 'packages.x86_64-linux.geball', 'legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.geball' or 'geball
It would be nice if there was a simple hint message along the lines of hint: did you stage your files? that always printed. I think that though this is semi-ugly to always display this everytime a flake doesn't find an attribute, I think that this is a nice stopgap until things like #6858 and #9352 get resolved. I think it'd be helpful for both beginners and people like me who forget.
It seems that all that would need to be done is add a string to here.
This isn't a new suggestion by any means, but I think that it would be helpful if this got its own issue so discussion specific to just the tooltip can happen.
As someone who switches between nix2 and nix3 commands often, I was annoyed when
nix build .#geballs
(a package that I had just written fornixpkgs
and run in the nixpkgs root on my pc) didn't work butnix-build -A geballs
did. The nix3 command didn't tell me that the working tree was dirty, because obviously git didn't know about it until I had staged it, so I kept getting the errorsIt would be nice if there was a simple hint message along the lines of
hint: did you stage your files?
that always printed. I think that though this is semi-ugly to always display this everytime a flake doesn't find an attribute, I think that this is a nice stopgap until things like #6858 and #9352 get resolved. I think it'd be helpful for both beginners and people like me who forget.It seems that all that would need to be done is add a string to here.
nix/src/libcmd/installable-flake.cc
Lines 192 to 197 in 50cb14f
This isn't a new suggestion by any means, but I think that it would be helpful if this got its own issue so discussion specific to just the tooltip can happen.
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