| 12 Aug 2021 |
 mewp | that would be an empty attrset in the repo, and added to gitignore | 07:06:18 |
| mewp | yes | 07:06:20 |
| mewp | and just change the filr | 07:06:28 |
| mewp | * and just change the file | 07:06:32 |
 elonsroadster | yeah | 07:06:37 |
| elonsroadster | thats what i did here: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad-contrib/pull/589 | 07:06:41 |
| elonsroadster | the thing that really sucks about it | 07:06:46 |
| elonsroadster | is that actually the customization file | 07:06:57 |
| elonsroadster | only works if you git add it | 07:07:03 |
| elonsroadster | because remember, flakes actually use git to decide which files get included when it is constructing the flake | 07:07:36 |
| mewp | yes, but only which files | 07:07:50 |
| mewp | not which revisions | 07:07:55 |
| mewp | you can have local modifications | 07:08:03 |
| elonsroadster | sure so yes, you dont have to commit hte file | 07:08:06 |
| elonsroadster | but its annoying that you have to git add it | 07:08:12 |
| mewp | not really | 07:08:23 |
| elonsroadster | okay well its annoying TO ME | 07:08:36 |
| mewp | add an empty file, commit it abd add ut to gitignore | 07:08:39 |
| mewp | * add an empty file, commit it and add ut to gitignore | 07:08:46 |
| elonsroadster | adding it to git ignore if you commit it is not very useful | 07:09:11 |
| elonsroadster | and if you commit the file, its not much better than just going in and modifying the flake in place, right? | 07:09:30 |
| elonsroadster | I'm just trying to avoid constantly needing to e.g. stash my modifications for my shell | 07:09:48 |
| elonsroadster | every time i switch branches | 07:09:52 |
| elonsroadster | that is what i was previously doing | 07:09:59 |
| elonsroadster | but then that starts to conflict with other peoples changes | 07:10:09 |
| elonsroadster | its just not really a tidy solution | 07:10:19 |
| mewp | I'll be in front of a computer in a minute, and I'll elaborate | 07:10:53 |
 bryan | In reply to @elonsroadster:matrix.org
adding it to git ignore if you commit it is not very useful How is it not useful? | 07:11:05 |
| bryan | (off hand I forget what effect it has to ignore a tracked file. I'd actually expect it to not work, so looking for confirmation there) | 07:12:11 |
 Jez (he/him) | Could you use https://github.com/edolstra/flake-compat in a shell.nix and use nix-shell instead of nix develop? | 07:13:18 |
