Support Git repos in the Nix path

E.g.

  $ nix-build -I nixpkgs=git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs '<nixpkgs>' -A hello

This is not extremely useful yet because you can't specify a
branch/revision.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index d738009051..67558cc0b3 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -1082,6 +1082,12 @@ bool statusOk(int status)
 }
 
 
+bool hasPrefix(const string & s, const string & suffix)
+{
+    return s.compare(0, suffix.size(), suffix) == 0;
+}
+
+
 bool hasSuffix(const string & s, const string & suffix)
 {
     return s.size() >= suffix.size() && string(s, s.size() - suffix.size()) == suffix;