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Adam Dinwoodie
972915cabd docs: remove incorrect claim re gc --print-dead
Per #7591, the `nix-store --gc --print-dead` command does not provide
any feedback about the amount of disk space that is used by dead store
paths.  It looks like this has been the case since 7ab68961e (* Garbage
collector: added an option `--use-atime' to delete paths in...,
2008-09-17).

Update the nix-store documentation to remove the claim that this is
function that `nix-store --gc --print-dead` performs.
2025-10-28 09:47:25 +00:00
John Ericson
b287438476 Document more references concepts 2025-05-14 12:57:06 -04:00
John Ericson
cafefed421 Rename to "content-address*ing* derivation"
"content-address*ed*" derivation is misleading because all derivations
are *themselves* content-addressed. What may or may not be
content-addressed is not derivation itself, but the *output* of the
derivation.

The outputs are not *part* of the derivation (for then the derivation
wouldn't be complete before we built it) but rather separate entities
produced by the derivation.

"content-adddress*ed*" is not correctly because it can only describe
what the derivation *is*, and that is not what we are trying to do.

"content-address*ing*" is correct because it describes what the
derivation *does* --- it produces content-addressed data.
2025-02-10 01:12:56 -05:00
Robert Hensing
91e91f62fa doc: Document nix-store --add-fixed symlink behavior
Tested with

    nix run nix/2.3-maintenance#nix-store -- --add some_symlink
    nix run nix/2.3-maintenance#nix-store -- --add-fixed sha256 --recursive some_symlink
2025-01-07 05:42:03 +00:00
John Ericson
eb7d7780b1 Rename doc/manual{src -> source}
This is needed to avoid this
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/13774 when we go back to
making our subproject directory `src`.
2024-10-14 11:21:24 -04:00