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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-11-03T12·52+0100
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-11-03T12·55+0100
commit6cf7c6a6b0d06d88f2f27daae4febbbdc757841b (patch)
treedca8cffff0abc310cc7fa1f55e0218f66736c6a1 /doc/manual
parentee6ac38848277d80c62fa5c2734ada1b5edc8680 (diff)
Remove git:// support in NIX_PATH
This didn't support specifying a revision/branch, and was restricted
to git:// URIs (since https:// or ssh:// would be ambiguous).
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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.12.xml7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.12.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.12.xml
index 7c9a8b75ecee..29943e3e6e97 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.12.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1.12.xml
@@ -189,13 +189,6 @@
   </listitem>
 
   <listitem>
-    <para>Git repositories can now be specified in the Nix search
-    path,
-    e.g. <literal>nixpkgs=git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs</literal>.
-    (d8bf0d4859e28ddd23401fbe89f4e528aa09ddb3)</para>
-  </listitem>
-
-  <listitem>
     <para><literal>&lt;nix/fetchurl.nix&gt;</literal> now uses the
     content-addressable tarball cache at
     <uri>http://tarballs.nixos.org/</uri>, just like