envrc

.envrc

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# only continue if the user has the nix version of direnv
+if has nix_direnv_version; then
+  # we want to track changes here, and reaload the environment
+  # we choose these files because they are the ones that are most likely
+  # to have made a change that required a shell reaload
+  watch_dir modules/flake/programs
+  watch_file modules/flake/args.nix
+
+  # now we want to load the flake environment
+  use flake
+fi

.gitignore

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 # nix things
 result
 # for 'nixos-rebuild build-vm' images
-*.qcow2 
+*.qcow2
+# direnv
+.direnv/