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Tag name is dangerous #45

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roberth opened this issue Aug 14, 2022 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #13
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Tag name is dangerous #45

roberth opened this issue Aug 14, 2022 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #13

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roberth commented Aug 14, 2022

{
  inputs.nixpkgs.url = "NixOS/nixpkgs/22.05";
}

Did you spot the security issue?

Let's replace the release tags by something descriptive, like 22.05-start or 22.05.0, so that users don't accidentally fail to update their packages.

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dasJ commented Aug 14, 2022

While I agree with the point in general, this particular example feels like a niv bug.
I wouldn't expect --branch to use a tag.

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roberth commented Aug 14, 2022

this particular example feels like a niv bug.

That's fair actually. I figured I'd add a non-flake example, but this is not it. Editing.

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