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| author | Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com> | 2012-08-26T18·48-0400 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-08-29T22·07-0400 |
| commit | 360056e174db2171c47e065ae1e5f58ccee0236f (patch) | |
| tree | 01d5492cb6479406808dcafccd5682b99ba78218 /doc/manual/builtins.xml | |
| parent | f7b650d234dffd72b2c70ee25d9e333d433feba6 (diff) | |
Document importing from a directory in the import documentation
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/builtins.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/builtins.xml index ce68c45bf366..64d4e13ad997 100644 --- a/doc/manual/builtins.xml +++ b/doc/manual/builtins.xml @@ -275,8 +275,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { <replaceable>path</replaceable></term> <listitem><para>Load, parse and return the Nix expression in the - file <replaceable>path</replaceable>. Evaluation aborts if the - file doesn’t exist or contains an incorrect Nix + file <replaceable>path</replaceable>. If <replaceable>path + </replaceable> is a directory, the file <filename>default.nix + </filename> in that directory is loaded. Evaluation aborts if + the file doesn’t exist or contains an incorrect Nix expression. <function>import</function> implements Nix’s module system: you can put any Nix expression (such as an attribute set or a function) in a separate file, and use it from Nix expressions |