On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 04:49:51PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > I just wanted to use git-subtree without having to rebuild all packages
> > that use git for fetching the sources.
> > 
> > We could make this part of the regular git package, but only on
> > (the next) core-updates.
> 
> I didn't realize this was an issue. We update the Git package whenever
> there is a new release.

Thinking about it for another minute, shouldn't those packages not need
to be rebuilt, since origins are fixed-output derivations?