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A fast, persistent use_nix/use_flake implementation for direnv [maintainer=@Mic92 / @bbenne10]
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Please create a stable branch #468

Closed psentee closed 5 months ago

psentee commented 5 months ago

In my flake.nix, I want to follow latest releases, but not necessarily integration branch.

It would be helpful to have a latest or stable branch that just points to the newest release – then, nix flake update would just pick up the released changes without pulling in ongoing development.

If you plan to maintain 2.x after 3.x release, a major release branch (like latest-2.x,`latest-3.x) would also be helpful.

Thank you!

Mic92 commented 5 months ago

We do not have plans to maintain older versions. I usually keep releases small and do not intend to merge features that are not finished. I think a better way to follow releases of nix-direnv is to use it from nixpkgs itself. Having a stable branch is overhead that I currently don't see the enough value for.