How to find a commit with a deprecated derivation?

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Hi,

I noticed that github doesn’t allow to pull the whole history of nixpkgs and whole repo is very big anyway.

Github UI is not well suited for searching commits.

nixpkgs has an aggressive policy for deprecating packages.
eg. llvm - this year versions less than 18 disappeared.

doing refactoring in legacy code often requires to build code with multiple compiler versions including very old ones.

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There are some tools that can do this, e.g. Nix Package Versions and https://www.nixhub.io/.

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nixhub has strange commits - they are not from nixpkgs

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I seem to have no issues matching the hashes with commits in nixpkgs (but I typically default to the other service).