This was found when trying to run the fileset tests on Darwin
(https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9546#issuecomment-1967409445), which mysteriously fail on Darwin:
test case at lib/fileset/tests.sh:342 failed: toSource { root = "/nix/store/foobar"; fileset = ./.; } should have errored with this regex pattern:
lib.fileset.toSource: `root` \(/nix/store/foobar\) is a string-like value, but it should be a path instead.
\s*Paths in strings are not supported by `lib.fileset`, use `lib.sources` or derivations instead.
but this was the actual error:
error: lib.fileset.toSource: `root` (/nix/store/foobar) is a string-like value, but it should be a path instead.
Paths in strings are not supported by `lib.fileset`, use `lib.sources` or derivations instead.
After dissecting this, I find out that apparently \s works on Linux, but not on Darwin for some reason!
From the bash source code, it looks like <regex.h> with `REG_EXTENDED` is used for all platforms the same,
so there's nothing odd there.
It's almost impossible to know where <regex.h> comes from,
but it looks to be a POSIX thing.
So after digging through the almost impossible to find POSIX specifications
(https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/re.html#tag_007_003_005),
I can indeed confirm that there's no mention of \s or the like!
_However_, there is a mention of `[[:blank:]]`, so we'll use that instead.
The only reason shallow clones are not the default in
`builtins.fetchGit` is that `revCount` can't be provided when cloning a
shallow repository. However, `revCount` isn't used or exposed by
`lib.fileset`. Hence, allowing cloning shallow repositories makes
`gitTracked` more general without any drawbacks.
Co-authored-by: Silvan Mosberger <github@infinisil.com>
- Make fromSource's missing file error message more consistent with others,
and add a test for it
- Indent some function arguments
- Fix an internal type
While this change is backwards-incompatible, I think it's okay because:
- The `fileFilter` function is not yet in a stable NixOS release, it was only merged about [a month ago](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/257356).
- All public uses of the function on GitHub only pass a path
- Any `fileFilter pred fileset` can also be expressed as `intersection fileset (fileFilter pred path)` without loss of functionality.
- This is furthermore pointed out in the new error message when a file set is passed
Just minor changes like:
- Always using "X is a Y, but it should be Z"
- "X is a path that does not exist" rather than "X does not exist"
- Always using multi-line strings for errors
- Always quoting string-like values and not quoting path-like values
- But do quote filesystem roots. Even though they're paths, they might
be very small, good to have quotes to know the start/end
- Capitalise the first word
- Distinguish root vs filesystem root more
This does decrease performance unfortunately
Benchmarking expression toSource { root = ./.; fileset = ./.; }
Mean CPU time 0.103747 (σ = 0.012415) for 10 runs is 97.32181384964636% (σ = 16.34179537413021%) of the old value 0.106602 (σ = 0.0125571)
Statistic .envs.elements (205920) is 105.5842% (+10891) of the old value 195029
Statistic .gc.totalBytes (20247696) is 101.7495% (+348160) of the old value 19899536
Statistic .nrThunks (134824) is 108.7878% (+10891) of the old value 123933
Statistic .symbols.number (996) is 100.1005% (+1) of the old value 995
Statistic .values.number (275238) is 104.1199% (+10891) of the old value 264347
Currently just throws the Nix error because unknown file types are not
supported by the Nix store, but nothing catches this error earlier (yet,
see next commit)
Philip Taron