Track where Nixpkgs pull requests have reached (is that update in nixpkgs-unstable yet??).
$ nixpkgs-track 370713
[370713] helix: 24.07 -> 25.01
Merged 3 days 23 hours 9 minutes and 3 seconds ago (2025-01-03T21:58:20+00:00), 1 hour 18 minutes and 54 seconds after creation.
master: ✅
staging: ✅
staging-next: ✅
nixpkgs-unstable: ✅
nixos-unstable-small: ✅
nixos-unstable: ✅nixpkgs-track is available from Nixpkgs.
nix run nixpkgs#nixpkgs-track
cargo install nixpkgs-trackThe simplest way to track a pull request is like so:
nixpkgs-track <PULL_REQUEST>
Where PULL_REQUEST is either the numerical ID or the GitHub URL of the pull request to track. For example, both 370713 and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/370713 are valid references to github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/370713.
Tip
Depending on usage, you may need to provide a GitHub API token to avoid rate-limiting. This can be done with the --token option or GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable if necessary.
nixpkgs-track also supports saving a list of pull requests to check in the future.
Add specified pull request(s) to the list.
Remove specified pull request(s) from the list. Remove all pull requests from the list with --all. Interactively remove pull requests from the list with --interactive.
List tracked pull requests and their metadata.
Check each tracked pull request. Equivalent to running nixpkgs-track <PULL_REQUEST> for each pull request in the list.
This crate also exports a simple library interface for other programs. This is available as nixpkgs-track_lib on crates.io.
The two primary functions are nixpkgs_track_lib::fetch_nixpkgs_pull_request for fetching pull request data from the GitHub API, and nixpkgs_track_lib::branch_contains_commit for checking if a commit SHA (such as from a merged pull request: PullRequest.merge_commit_sha) is present in a specified branch on GitHub.
The implementation used for the command line interface can be found at crates/nixpkgs-track/src/main.rs, under the check function. See also src/commands/misc/nixpkgs.rs of @isabelroses's Blåhaj bot for Discord.
nixpkgs-track was originally created as a local and reliable CLI alternative to Alyssa Ross's Nixpkgs Pull Request Tracker website and based on getchoo/nixpkgs-tracker-bot. Currently though, nixpkgs-track is primarily derived from the recent ocfox/nixpkgs-tracker project.