hebinhao1993 / nixos

my nixos configration

README

directory dotfiles

the dirctory dotfiles is a copy of https://github.com/hebinhao1993/dotfiles.

why not use git submodule? nix flake does not support git submodule quiet well, although there exists some support. see NixOS/nix#4357, NixOS/nix#4435, NixOS/nix#4423, https://discourse.nixos.org/t/get-nix-flake-to-include-git-submodule/30324, https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-build-flake-cant-read-a-file-in-a-submodule/21932.

Yes, we can use nixos-rebuild switch --flake '.?submodules=1#nixwsl' to enable submodule features, however it is not the default behavior. Besides, the use of submodule break the decentralization. When I import the nixos configuration repo to bitbucket, gitlab or self-hosted private git services, the submodule still point to the https://github.com/hebinhao1993/dotfiles. git-subtree is another method to handle this problem, but git-subtree itself introduce other problems. For example, git subtree split --rejoin will produce the same commit, which is ugly.

The content of dotfiles should be exactly the same as some commit of https://github.com/hebinhao1993/dotfiles when in the master/main branch of this nixos repo. The version.txt is an exception, which is used to track the commit id of https://github.com/hebinhao1993/dotfiles.

When in the dev branch, the content of dotfiles can be different.