From 67d0a57ef9eedde69192e08db77751c1c1062e0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 17:20:54 +0200
Subject: pkgs/top-level/release.nix.nix: Use fetchGit if possible

---
 pkgs/top-level/release.nix | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'pkgs/top-level/release.nix')

diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/release.nix b/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
index f78152a8931..ca4c8ce83f3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/release.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
 
    $ nix-build pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A coreutils.x86_64-linux
 */
-{ nixpkgs ? { outPath = (import ../../lib).cleanSource ../..; revCount = 1234; shortRev = "abcdef"; }
+{ nixpkgs ?
+    if builtins.pathExists ../../.git then
+      fetchGit ../..
+    else
+      { outPath = (import ../../lib).cleanSource ../..; revCount = 1234; shortRev = "abcdef"; }
 , officialRelease ? false
   # The platforms for which we build Nixpkgs.
 , supportedSystems ? [ "x86_64-linux" "x86_64-darwin" "aarch64-linux" ]
-- 
cgit 1.4.1