nmattia/niv

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Easy dependency management for Nix projects

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Forks: 75
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 77
Avg merge: 7m
Merged PRs (30d): 5

Dominant language: Haskell
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 11, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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77 open issues indexed

niv update fails with "Could not read the output of git" on https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nmattia/niv#415 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 26, 2026
Update type refactoring Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmattia/niv#407 · Opened Jun 29, 2024
Feature request: niv-sources.toml Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#398 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 18, 2024
error nixpkgs dependency Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmattia/niv#391 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 7, 2024
Any interest in bringing this project under the NixOS organization? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

nmattia/niv#374 · 14 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Jul 13, 2023
niv update doesn't update the description and homepage Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#358 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 8, 2022
niv doesn't allow overriding the names of the download derivation Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#356 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 6, 2022
Pinning nixos nixpkgs using niv in 22.05 fails? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nmattia/niv#354 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 13, 2022
vendor dependencies Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#353 · 1 comment · Opened May 24, 2022
default nixpkgs branch is 20.05 Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#344 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 12, 2022
git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey). Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmattia/niv#342 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 23, 2021
FATAL: Could not read the output of 'nix-prefetch-url' Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#341 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2021
niv tries to unpack local dependency Open

question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#337 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2021
Command-line option to store base16 hashes in sources.json Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nmattia/niv#334 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 11, 2021
"Could not read the output of 'nix-prefetch-url'. This is a bug." Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#330 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2021
Add better documentation about the templating system and the attribute parameters Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#329 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 15, 2021
Add niv branches traking the branches from nixpkgs Open

enhancement question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nmattia/niv#328 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2021
Amend documentation to recommend explicit usage of `outPath` attribute Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

nmattia/niv#325 · Opened Jun 14, 2021
source.json interpolation with environment variables Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmattia/niv#321 · 5 comments · Opened May 23, 2021
autodetect obvious URLs (`niv add https://github.com/user/repo.git`) Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#317 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2021
[feature] `init` option to create a tiny shell.nix skeleton Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nmattia/niv#316 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 12, 2021
Could not read the output of 'nix-prefetch-url' with incorrect revision Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#309 · Opened Jan 29, 2021
Feature request: shell completion Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmattia/niv#308 · Opened Jan 20, 2021
Add support for patches Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmattia/niv#302 · 2 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Dec 30, 2020
Extendable updating/fetching Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

nmattia/niv#300 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 21, 2020
Does niv actually prefetch downloads? Open

question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#295 · 9 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2020
Implementation and proposal of `niv search` command Open

enhancement wontfix

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nmattia/niv#293 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 5, 2020
Fatal error when branch is not found Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#288 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 22, 2020
NIV_OVERRIDE path sanitizing broken? Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#286 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 9, 2020
source with .nix files (in addition as option) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#285 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 3, 2020
Support `sources.json` being JSON5 to allow comments Open

enhancement wontfix

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

nmattia/niv#284 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 28, 2020
Could not read output of nix-prefetch-url when "unknown compression method" occurs Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#274 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 25, 2020
Decompose sources.json Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmattia/niv#273 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2020
niv status, sources discovery and niv init templates Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmattia/niv#272 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 22, 2020
Autodetect file type Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nmattia/niv#263 · Opened Aug 18, 2020
Proper error on missing branch Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#257 · Opened Jul 31, 2020
how to add a local source Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#256 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 25, 2020
Add CONTRIBUTING.md Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

nmattia/niv#255 · Opened Jul 24, 2020
niv update error Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nmattia/niv#248 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2020
Unable to use a `mirror:` URL for tarballs Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

nmattia/niv#244 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2020
Feature request: support vendorSha256 (buildGoModule) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nmattia/niv#241 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 12, 2020
subcommand to refresh checksum Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#240 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 11, 2020
Add some shortcuts for adding known packages Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nmattia/niv#238 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 7, 2020
Make it easier to add dependencies from GitLab Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#231 · 3 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Jun 18, 2020
Pros/cons of using niv via overlay vs importing sources Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nmattia/niv#230 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2020
Fetching a github repo with submodules and checksum Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nmattia/niv#229 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2020
invoking niv in some subdirectory should work Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nmattia/niv#228 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened May 31, 2020
Support fetching channels Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#225 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 26, 2020
nix-shell --pure usage doesn't work for the full niv API? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#222 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2020
niv add git ... does not add checksum Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nmattia/niv#214 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 14, 2020

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