Find git urls to fetch tarballs

1

I can’t find a way to find this kind of link:
“https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/2862c5e53e41a02157076f7c703b0c510a694939.tar.gz”
to use for fetching a tarball.

2

Just replace 2862c5e53e41a02157076f7c703b0c510a694939 with a valid git commit from that repository

3

the question is how to find the commit

4

Clone the repo and read the logs? Alternatively click on the history button: Commits · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub.

I’d recommend in general though using either npins or flakes, both of them will generate a lock file and update it automatically without worrying about manually discovering commit hashes.

5

You could also use names of branches (or e.g. channels) instead of the commit hash, for example, but of course the contents of such links would change over time.