Kilian's homepage and public feed Zola 2026-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 https://kilko.de/tags/flake-nix/atom.xml 2026-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 2026-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://kilko.de/feed/til/comparing-changes-in-a-nix-flake/ <p>Running <code>nix flake update</code> in a project updates you to the latest checkouts of your pins without telling you what actually changed. <a rel="external" href="https://github.com/manic-systems/dix">dix</a> is super helpful for that.</p> <pre class="giallo z-code"><code data-lang="shellscript"><span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">nix</span><span class="z-string"> develop</span><span class="z-constant"> -</span><span class="z-constant">-profile</span><span class="z-string"> /tmp/old</span><span class="z-punctuation z-definition z-string"> &quot;</span><span class="z-string">git+file://</span><span class="z-variable z-other">$</span><span class="z-variable z-other">PWD</span><span class="z-string">?ref=HEAD</span><span class="z-punctuation z-definition z-string">&quot;</span><span class="z-constant"> -</span><span class="z-constant">c</span><span class="z-constant"> true</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">nix</span><span class="z-string"> develop</span><span class="z-constant"> -</span><span class="z-constant">-profile</span><span class="z-string"> /tmp/new</span><span class="z-string"> .</span><span class="z-constant"> -</span><span class="z-constant">c</span><span class="z-constant"> true</span></span> <span class="giallo-l"><span class="z-entity z-name">dix</span><span class="z-string"> /tmp/old</span><span class="z-string"> /tmp/new</span></span></code></pre>