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Provide a more meaningful error-message for
builtins.fetchGit
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…revision can't be checked out A common pitfall when using e.g. `builtins.fetchGit` is the `fatal: not a tree object`-error when trying to fetch a revision of a git-repository that isn't on the `master` branch and no `ref` is specified. In order to make clear what's the problem, I added a simple check whether the revision in question exists and if it doesn't a more meaningful error-message is displayed: ``` nix-repl> builtins.fetchGit { url = "https://github.com/owner/myrepo"; rev = "<commit not on master>"; } moderror: --- Error -------------------------------------------------------------------- nix Cannot find Git revision 'bf1cc5c648e6aed7360448a3745bb2fe4fbbf0e9' in ref 'master' of repository 'https://gitlab.com/Ma27/nvim.nix'! Please make sure that the rev exists on the ref you've specified or add allRefs = true; to fetchGit. ``` Closes NixOS#2431
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