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We at Determinate Systems are pleased to announce our initial release of Zero to Nix, a brand new learning resource for Nix. You can check it out at zero-to-nix.com. Zero to Nix is mostly targeted at two groups:

1. People who are curious about Nix but haven’t yet taken the time to really explore it (perhaps because they’ve felt intimated by it).
2. People who are pretty sure they would benefit from Nix and have tried to cross the chasm to using it in their daily workflows but haven’t gotten there yet.

The title of this post is tongue-in-cheek; nixos-rebuild is a tool that has been around for a long time and there’s nothing new about it. However, I believe that not enough people know how capable this tool is for building and deploying remote NixOS systems. In other words, nixos-rebuild is actually a decent alternative to tools like morph or colmena.

In this post I’ll present a few git commands and operations I run or have run on occasion, in no particular order, that the majority of git users out there might not ever need.