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-rw-r--r--pkgs/build-support/fetchgithub/default.nix4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchgithub/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/fetchgithub/default.nix
index 91ffe4c6d8e..ea95bbb4793 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchgithub/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchgithub/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 { owner, repo, rev, name ? "source"
 , fetchSubmodules ? false, leaveDotGit ? null
-, deepClone ? false, private ? false
+, deepClone ? false, private ? false, forceFetchGit ? false
 , githubBase ? "github.com", varPrefix ? null
 , ... # For hash agility
 }@args:
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ let
   baseUrl = "https://${githubBase}/${owner}/${repo}";
   passthruAttrs = removeAttrs args [ "owner" "repo" "rev" "fetchSubmodules" "private" "githubBase" "varPrefix" ];
   varBase = "NIX${if varPrefix == null then "" else "_${varPrefix}"}_GITHUB_PRIVATE_";
-  useFetchGit = fetchSubmodules || (leaveDotGit == true) || deepClone;
+  useFetchGit = fetchSubmodules || (leaveDotGit == true) || deepClone || forceFetchGit;
   # We prefer fetchzip in cases we don't need submodules as the hash
   # is more stable in that case.
   fetcher = if useFetchGit then fetchgit else fetchzip;