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Eelco Dolstra
60a1bf08b6
Merge pull request #7798 from peeley/list-experimental-features
Documentation: list experimental features in manual
2023-04-11 11:55:35 +02:00
John Ericson
2b98af2e62 nix show-derivation -> nix derivation show 2023-04-07 08:34:58 -04:00
John Ericson
53d0836347 Assemble experimental feature docs outside of Nix itself
Instead of constructing a markdown list in C++ (which involved all sorts
of nasty string literals), export some JSON and assemble it with the
manual build system.

Besides following the precedent set with other dumped data, this is a
better separate of content and presentation; if we decide for example we
want to display this information in a different way, or in a different
section of the manual, it will become much easier to do so.
2023-04-04 22:57:11 -04:00
John Ericson
4a0b893d5e Stuctured command stability
Prior to this, there was an ad-hoc whitelist in `main.cc`. Now, every
command states its stability.

In a future PR, we will adjust the manual to take advantage of this new
information in the JSON.
(It will be easier to do that once we have some experimental feature
docs to link too; see #5930 and #7798.)
2023-04-03 11:48:21 -04:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
70bb7b7289
Merge pull request #7610 from obsidiansystems/gate-default-settings
Punt on improper global flags for now
2023-04-03 14:02:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
237587bc0a
Merge pull request #8084 from edolstra/store-docs
Auto-generate store documentation
2023-03-27 15:46:18 +02:00
John Ericson
7c4dea3cf3 Punt on improper global flags for now
See the note in the test.

We don't want these flags showing up for commands where they are
irrelevant.

Eventually, this needs a proper fix, but it need not be a blocker for
stabilize: for a quick-n-dirty punt, just put these flags behind the
`nix-command` unstable feature.

This is fine because they are only relevant for commands which we don't
need to stabilize for a while.
2023-03-27 09:21:50 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
c967c29290 Add a "help" category
This makes the help commands show up prominently at the top of the
'nix' manpage.
2023-03-21 14:43:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
233b063b08 Move store docs to 'nix help-stores'
Why not 'nix help stores'? Well, 'nix help <arg>' already means 'show
help on the "arg" subcommand'.
2023-03-21 14:37:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9eb53bbf17 Support per-store Markdown documentation 2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d6d59cb1b nix store --help: Include store type documentation 2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
John Ericson
4607ac7aed Fix handling of experimental features mid-parse
If we conditionally "declare" the argument, as we did before, based upon
weather the feature is enabled, commands like

    nix --experimental-features=foo ... --thing-gated-on-foo

won't work, because the experimental feature isn't enabled until *after*
we start parsing.

Instead, allow arguments to also be associated with experimental
features (just as we did for builtins and settings), and then the
command line parser will filter out the experimental ones.

Since the effects of arguments (handler functions) are performed right
away, we get the required behavior: earlier arguments can enable later
arguments enabled!

There is just one catch: we want to keep non-positional
flags...non-positional. So if

    nix --experimental-features=foo ... --thing-gated-on-foo

works, then

    nix --thing-gated-on-foo --experimental-features=foo ...

should also work.

This is not my favorite long-term solution, but for now this is
implemented by delaying the requirement of needed experimental features
until *after* all the arguments have been parsed.
2023-03-20 11:35:34 -04:00
John Ericson
296831f641 Move enabled experimental feature to libutil struct
This is needed in subsequent commits to allow the settings and CLI args
infrastructure itself to read this setting.
2023-03-20 11:05:22 -04:00
John Ericson
bc23a44c54 Make command infra less stateful and more regular
Already, we had classes like `BuiltPathsCommand` and `StorePathsCommand`
which provided alternative `run` virtual functions providing the
implementation with more arguments. This was a very nice and easy way to
make writing command; just fill in the virtual functions and it is
fairly clear what to do.

However, exception to this pattern were `Installable{,s}Command`. These
two classes instead just had a field where the installables would be
stored, and various side-effecting `prepare` and `load` machinery too
fill them in. Command would wish out those fields.

This isn't so clear to use.

What this commit does is make those command classes like the others,
with richer `run` functions.

Not only does this restore the pattern making commands easier to write,
it has a number of other benefits:

- `prepare` and `load` are gone entirely! One command just hands just
  hands off to the next.

- `useDefaultInstallables` because `defaultInstallables`. This takes
  over `prepare` for the one case that needs it, and provides enough
  flexiblity to handle `nix repl`'s idiosyncratic migration.

- We can use `ref` instead of `std::shared_ptr`. The former must be
  initialized (so it is like Rust's `Box` rather than `Option<Box>`,
  This expresses the invariant that the installable are in fact
  initialized much better.

  This is possible because since we just have local variables not
  fields, we can stop worrying about the not-yet-initialized case.

- Fewer lines of code! (Finally I have a large refactor that makes the
  number go down not up...)

- `nix repl` is now implemented in a clearer way.

The last item deserves further mention. `nix repl` is not like the other
installable commands because instead working from once-loaded
installables, it needs to be able to load them again and again.

To properly support this, we make a new superclass
`RawInstallablesCommand`. This class has the argument parsing and
completion logic, but does *not* hand off parsed installables but
instead just the raw string arguments.

This is exactly what `nix repl` needs, and allows us to instead of
having the logic awkwardly split between `prepare`,
`useDefaultInstallables,` and `load`, have everything right next to each
other. I think this will enable future simplifications of that argument
defaulting logic, but I am saving those for a future PR --- best to keep
code motion and more complicated boolean expression rewriting separate
steps.

The "diagnostic ignored `-Woverloaded-virtual`" pragma helps because C++
doesn't like our many `run` methods. In our case, we don't mind the
shadowing it all --- it is *intentional* that the derived class only
provides a `run` method, and doesn't call any of the overridden `run`
methods.

Helps with https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/134
2023-03-15 16:29:07 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
b69a73a230 Get rid of some unchecked calls to std::cout 2023-03-02 15:02:24 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux
e4726a0c79 Revert "Revert "Merge pull request #6204 from layus/coerce-string""
This reverts commit 9b33ef3879.
2023-01-19 13:23:04 +01:00
Robert Hensing
9b33ef3879 Revert "Merge pull request #6204 from layus/coerce-string"
This reverts commit a75b7ba30f, reversing
changes made to 9af16c5f74.
2023-01-18 01:34:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6b69652385 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into coerce-string 2023-01-02 20:53:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
0edba4cc1e
Merge pull request #7231 from jfroche/fix/savedArgv-access
Move savedArgv into libmain
2022-10-31 16:35:08 +01:00
Jean-François Roche
cd86eeb693
Move savedArgv into libmain
`savedArgv` is not accessible by plugins when defined in main binary.
Moving it into one of the nix lib fix the problem.
2022-10-28 12:19:37 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
9bff7e8ee2 Fix nix __build-remote
Because of a wrong index, `nix __build-remote` wasn't working.

Fix the index to restore the command (and the build hook).
2022-10-26 11:53:46 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
3f9f6ae127 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into coerce-string 2022-10-16 20:39:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
eba610956b Move some options into a misc category
This unclutters the per-command options a bit by moving out some
global options.
2022-10-12 15:09:17 +02:00
Ana Hobden
069409d167 Print common flags in --help 2022-10-07 09:07:22 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra
d365cced4f
Trim option descriptions
This removes unintended blank lines in Markdown when the description
is a multiline string literal.
2022-09-13 16:58:32 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
eb460a9529 WIP: broken merge but need a git checkpoint 2022-09-07 00:34:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
bb411e4ae1 Fix progress bar flicker with -L
This was caused by -L calling setLogFormat() again, which caused the
creation of a new progress bar without destroying the old one. So we
had two progress bars clobbering each other.

We should change 'logger' to be a smart pointer, but I'll do that in a
future PR.

Fixes #6931.
2022-08-24 22:36:40 +02:00
Théophane Hufschmitt
f071eb3702
Merge pull request #6693 from ncfavier/complete-flake-inputs
Improve shell completion of flake inputs
2022-07-12 09:12:00 +02:00
Naïm Favier
711b2e1f48
Fix flake input completion for InstallablesCommands
Defers completion of flake inputs until the whole command line is parsed
so that we know what flakes we need to complete the inputs of.

Previously, `nix build flake --update-input <Tab>` always behaved like
`nix build . --update-input <Tab>`.
2022-07-11 15:13:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
d3176ce076 Fix build-remote in nix-static
'build-remote' is now executed via /proc/self/exe so it always works.
2022-06-23 01:32:46 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch
159b5815b5
repl: --option pure-eval true actually enables pure eval mode
To quote Eelco in #5867:

> Unfortunately we can't do
>
>     evalSettings.pureEval.setDefault(false);
>
> because then we have to do the same in main.cc (where
> pureEval is set to true), and that would allow pure-eval
> to be disabled globally from nix.conf.

Instead, a command should specify that it should be impure by
default. Then, `evalSettings.pureEval` will be set to `false;` unless
it's overridden by e.g. a CLI flag.

In that case it's IMHO OK to be (theoretically) able to override
`pure-eval` via `nix.conf` because it doesn't have an effect on commands
where `forceImpureByDefault` returns `false` (i.e. everything where pure
eval actually matters).

Closes #5867
2022-05-31 22:20:11 +02:00
Naïm Favier
1461e6cdda
Stop the logger properly in legacy commands
Ensures the logger is stopped on exit in legacy commands. Without this,
when using `nix-build --log-format bar` and stopping nix with CTRL+C,
the bar is not cleared from the screen.
2022-05-11 12:58:45 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
e93b59fbc5 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into coerce-string 2022-04-29 00:12:25 +02:00
Guillaume Maudoux
acf990c9ea fix errors case and wording 2022-04-28 12:54:14 +02:00
pennae
8775be3393 store Symbols in a table as well, like positions
this slightly increases the amount of memory used for any given symbol, but this
increase is more than made up for if the symbol is referenced more than once in
the EvalState that holds it. on average every symbol should be referenced at
least twice (once to introduce a binding, once to use it), so we expect no
increase in memory on average.

symbol tables are limited to 2³² entries like position tables, and similar
arguments apply to why overflow is not likely: 2³² symbols would require as many
string instances (at 24 bytes each) and map entries (at 24 bytes or more each,
assuming that the map holds on average at most one item per bucket as the docs
say). a full symbol table would require at least 192GB of memory just for
symbols, which is well out of reach. (an ofborg eval of nixpks today creates
less than a million symbols!)
2022-04-21 21:56:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
86b05ccd54 Only provide builtin.{getFlake,fetchClosure} is the corresponding experimental feature is enabled
This allows writing fallback code like

  if builtins ? fetchClosure then
    builtins.fetchClose { ... }
  else
    builtins.storePath ...
2022-03-25 14:04:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
5acaf13d35 Rename 'nix store make-content-addressable' to 'nix store make-content-addressed' 2022-03-24 21:33:33 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux
1942fed6d9 Revert extra colon at end os strings 2022-03-18 01:10:04 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux
13c4dc6532 more fixes 2022-03-07 11:33:03 +01:00
Guillaume Maudoux
be1f069746 Add error context for most basic coercions 2022-03-04 05:04:47 +01:00
John Ericson
89f8917a32 Remove dead field in NixArgs
This has been unused since 170e86dff5

CC @thufschmitt
2022-01-19 20:26:14 +00:00
Alexander Bantyev
8cf54f754d
Show build and substitution information when not connected to a TTY
When stderr is not connected to a tty, show "building" and
"substituting" messages, a-la nix-build et al.

Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4402

Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <7226587+thufschmitt@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-01-17 19:57:29 +03:00
Eelco Dolstra
6d9a6d2cc3 Ensure that attrsets are sorted
Previously you had to remember to call value->attrs->sort() after
populating value->attrs. Now there is a BindingsBuilder helper that
wraps Bindings and ensures that sort() is called before you can use
it.
2022-01-04 18:00:33 +01:00
Naïm Favier
1da1b2b345
Don't insert spaces when completing attribute paths 2021-12-22 16:17:01 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8c93a481af Ignore errors unsharing/restoring the mount namespace
This prevents Nix from barfing when run in a container where it
doesn't have the appropriate privileges.
2021-11-16 14:48:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ff2af4d64e Unshare mount namespace in main()
Doing it as a side-effect of calling LocalStore::makeStoreWritable()
is very ugly.

Also, make sure that stopping the progress bar joins the update
thread, otherwise that thread should be unshared as well.
2021-11-08 22:00:45 +01:00
regnat
af99941279 Make experimental-features a proper type
Rather than having them plain strings scattered through the whole
codebase, create an enum containing all the known experimental features.

This means that
- Nix can now `warn` when an unkwown experimental feature is passed
  (making it much nicer to spot typos and spot deprecated features)
- It’s now easy to remove a feature altogether (once the feature isn’t
  experimental anymore or is dropped) by just removing the field for the
  enum and letting the compiler point us to all the now invalid usages
  of it.
2021-10-26 07:02:31 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
08aa7daee0 Remove links to .md files in help output
Fixes #5337.
2021-10-06 13:01:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
49a932fb18 nix --help: Display help using lowdown instead of man
Fixes #4476.
Fixes #5231.
2021-09-13 14:45:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
906adadacd Restore stack size in child processes
Fixes #4673.
2021-04-07 13:40:13 +02:00