Robert Hensing

@fricklerhandwerk Thank you for your elaboration. I believe there's a lot of merit in Nix's ability to manage the fetching of expression files. For this purpose, we have to pick...

That's the case hack you're seeing, but in your situation I think it's probably up to the image building derivations to handle the case hack. I have to say that...

I agree with John, but also I would use this.

See, now we're even [discussing](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9361/files#r1397121152) the new CLI, which actually is a priority.

This would improve the documentation as well - https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10708#discussion_r1606810865 @infinisil are you still interested in completing this PR?

> You should be aware that libgit2 has severe performance problems We've seen some performance regressions that we expect to be offset by the ability to operate on subtrees of...

Regarding libgit2 performance, romkatv has made optimizations that may be interesting to upstream. https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/5044 attempted to upstream a number of them. Perhaps we could cherry-pick ones that are relevant to...

When `libgit2` supports remote helpers, #10567 and removing the `git` command dependency won't be in opposition. I've added "Do not regress in functionality" to the issue description, because I'm certainly...

I haven't talked to them about these features; I've only opened this issue to track what we'd need, because it came up in review and discussions. I don't think this...

Most significantly it uses `clone`/`fetch` for performance and functionality; see [Additional context](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/9807#issue-2089325678) for blockers. Also a signature check, and `git add` in the flakes CLI. Currently you can find the...