Clone a repo to a specific dir without home manager

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I have a repo from github and I want to clone it to a specific directory. I know in home manager you can do home.file."..." along with fetchFromGitHub, but is there a way without using home manager?

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Do you want a clone of the repo, or do you want to have a certain snapshot of the repo?

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I want to pin a version of a repo with the rev of fetchFromGithub

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You could write a nixos activation script to do that, but that seems crazy (do you really want to potentially run this on boot?). You could invent your own mini home-manager, which could definitely do that, but that seems excessive. You be avant-guarde and use hjem, or you could… just use home-manager.

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Custom systemd user service that specifies the version to clone in the run script might do the job.

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tempdile rule with fetchFromGitHub then.

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