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nix-shell . behaves differently than nix-shell #496

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cocreature opened this issue Mar 5, 2015 · 2 comments · Fixed by #11057
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nix-shell . behaves differently than nix-shell #496

cocreature opened this issue Mar 5, 2015 · 2 comments · Fixed by #11057
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cli The old and/or new command line interface nix-shell nix-shell, nix develop, nix print-dev-env, etc

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When not passing a path to nix-shell it behaves exactly as expected: it searches first for shell.nix and then for default.nix
When one passes . (or some other folder) as a path to nix-shell it searches only for default.nix

In my opinion this is confusing and inconsistent.
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nix-shell: look up shell.nix when argument is a directory hercules-ci/nix
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