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How to pin a GitLab repository with Nix + Nixtamal

Let’s show the way using the highlight repository. When you write this, you will substitute the owner & project slugs. In most cases, you will want to prefer fetching the archive (GitLab supports bzip) over the Git input kind. git ls-remote is preferred by us for being more generic.

Latest revision 

// manifest.kdl
inputs {
	highlight {
		archive {
			url "https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/archive/{{fresh_value}}/highlight-{{fresh_value}}.tar.bz2"
		}
		fresh-cmd {
			$ git ls-remote --branches master "https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight.git"
			| cut -f1
		}
	}
}

Latest stable tagged version 

// manifest.kdl
inputs {
	highlight {
		archive {
			url "https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight/-/archive/{{fresh_value}}/highlight-{{fresh_value}}.tar.bz2"
		}
		// Looks for tag starting with v[0-9] since some tags didn’t take on
		// this version structure but also must end in [0-9] to remove alpha,
		// beta, release tags
		fresh-cmd {
			$ git ls-remote --tags --sort=v:refname "https://gitlab.com/saalen/highlight.git"
			| grep -E "'refs/tags/v([0-9]+\\.)+[0-9]+$'"
			| tail -n1
			| sed "'s|.*refs/tags/||'"
		}
	}
}