Ben Price

Documentation for `**/` is confusing

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The docs say "`**/` Matches any number of characters, including path separators, excluding the empty string.", but this does not seem to match what I see in practice. I see...

I am using flakes with nixops, and employ the idiom ``` system.configurationRevision = if self ? rev then self.rev else throw "Refusing to build from a dirty Git tree!"; ```...

With certain comment placement, the output of a failing test can be rather confusing, with failures and annotations ascribed to the wrong source lines. #### The bug Consider the file...

Magic rollback gets confused with multiplexed SSH connections

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[ I'm not sure whether this should be considered a bug, or a PEBKAC. If the latter, it would be nice to document as a pitfall to avoid] In my...

Password-based ssh authentication does not work

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I think this may fall into the general category of "deploy-rs leaves the terminal in a broken state", and is probably related to #105 and #78 and https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs/issues/49#issuecomment-766187567. I was...

Accept multi-lib packages with public sublibraries

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Now that cabal 3.8 has been released and multi-lib packages are no longer experimental, my understanding is that it is planned to update Hackage to accept multi-lib (with publicly visible...

GHC prints debug(?) `exprType` traces

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Somewhere between c8d06643bfc0a0e2d9c2311a8758bf64a6943957 and 65c7172b421f863d400a3a004dabefd81ca71d9b I started to see messages such as `exprType TYPE : Text` when using a GHC provided by haskell.nix. This happens both when using `nix build`...

Consider the following sequence of commands - `cabal-edit latest optics`: says the latest is `optics ^>= 0.4` - `cabal-edit add optics`: adds the dependency `optics ^>= 0.4` - `cabal-edit update...

(This is partially a request for a two-line change, but I am not familiar enough with the package to be sure it is actually an improvement. I have written up...

`Generic` instance with `omitNothingFields = True` is very slow

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There seems to be exponential time complexity with `genericToEncoding defaultOptions {omitNothingFields = True}`, although this seems to depend on the ghc version used. Consider the following code (which has been...