unable to download 'https://api.github.com/repos/chadac/nix-ws/commits/HEAD': HTTP error 409

[sylvorg]

Hello!

I'm getting the following error after following the installation instruction in the README and running ns init --name test in an empty directory:

[ERROR] cli error:
 stderr: error:
       … while fetching the input 'github:chadac/nix-ws'

       error: unable to download 'https://api.github.com/repos/chadac/nix-ws/commits/HEAD': HTTP error 409

       response body:

       {
         "message": "Git Repository is empty.",
         "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/commits/commits#get-a-commit"
       }

 stdout:

I'm also using the following command for nix-shell, just in case, which works, but running ns init --name test also errors out there as well:

nix-shell -E 'with builtins.getFlake "https://github.com/chadac/nixspace/archive/main.tar.gz"; with (import /etc/nixos).pkgs.currentSystem
; mkShell { buildInputs = [ packages.${builtins.currentSystem}.nixspace ]; }'

Thank you kindly for the help!

[chadac]

Looks like potentially you're using an earlier version of nixspace, I had a commit earlier today that referred to this repo. With ns -vv you can see what CLI commands I'm running, but to pull in the most recent version, I'd try:

nix shell github:chadac/nixspace --refresh

That should pull the latest commit from the repository. If you'd like to just start a project, you could also run (in your workspace directory):

nix flake init github:chadac/nixspace

which is essentially what ns init does.

[sylvorg]

Quick note: nix flake init github:chadac/nixspace is erroring out with error: unexpected argument 'github:chadac/nixspace'.

In addition, ns init --name [...] errors out on directories whether they exist or not, and you can't initialize without a name.

[chadac]

Apologies, I got the command wrong in that comment. It should be nix flake init -t github:chadac/nixspace. Lemme throw that in the docs as well. I assume ns init still errors with the same message?

[sylvorg]

Hmm... nix flake init -t github:chadac/nixspace works, creating the workspace, but it seems that ns init --name [...] worked as well, but threw an error anyway? I tried again just now, and it said that the directory already existed, which it in fact does...

[chadac]

The ns command does have to be initialized in an empty directory unlike the nix flake init template usage. I threw in an explicit check for that. Perhaps I shouldn't, though? If that is too strange a behavior I could probably update the init command to work in existing directories. I may add some type of confirmation to ensure the user really wants a workspace rooted in that directory, though.

[sylvorg]

Yeah, that might be better, making it work something like git init. Unless that's how creating npm workspaces work?

[chadac]

Yeah I'd be up for that, it would be more consistent with the nix flake init syntax anyways. npm workspaces are sort of their own thing that happens after a project has already been created, so modeling after them probably wouldn't make too much sense.

Lemme change this to a feature request and get something out for this soon.

[sylvorg]

Let me know where I can help; I've no knowledge of rust, but I've been working with nix for some time now, so I can try there! 😅