From a2740c9ca23e748c3ab8ea61a135594a94c86aae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 11:33:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] nix copy: Add examples
---
src/nix/copy.cc | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/nix/copy.cc b/src/nix/copy.cc
index fe963e794..bf9ffe755 100644
--- a/src/nix/copy.cc
+++ b/src/nix/copy.cc
@@ -39,9 +39,17 @@ struct CmdCopy : StorePathsCommand
{
return {
Example{
- "To copy Firefox to the local store to a binary cache in file:///tmp/cache:",
+ "To copy Firefox from the local store to a binary cache in file:///tmp/cache:",
"nix copy --to file:///tmp/cache -r $(type -p firefox)"
},
+ Example{
+ "To copy the entire current NixOS system closure to another machine via SSH:",
+ "nix copy --to ssh://server -r /run/current-system"
+ },
+ Example{
+ "To copy a closure from another machine via SSH:",
+ "nix copy --from ssh://server -r /nix/store/a6cnl93nk1wxnq84brbbwr6hxw9gp2w9-blender-2.79-rc2"
+ },
};
}
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