nixos.revision: Use null instead of "master"

"master" is not a valid SHA-1 commit hash, and it's not even
necessarily the branch used. 'nixos-version --revision' now returns an
error if the commit hash is not known.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-version.sh b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-version.sh
index 2711bc1e131e..bde6c9c30030 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-version.sh
+++ b/nixos/modules/installer/tools/nixos-version.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ case "$1" in
     exit 1
     ;;
   --hash|--revision)
+    if ! [[ @revision@ =~ /[0-9a-f]+/ ]]; then
+      echo "$0: Nixpkgs commit hash is unknown"
+      exit 1
+    fi
     echo "@revision@"
     ;;
   --json)
diff --git a/nixos/modules/misc/version.nix b/nixos/modules/misc/version.nix
index 8dbbbe6761c4..c394ff592f49 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/misc/version.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/misc/version.nix
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ in
 
     nixos.revision = mkOption {
       internal = true;
-      type = types.str;
-      default = trivial.revisionWithDefault "master";
+      type = types.nullOr types.str;
+      default = trivial.revisionWithDefault null;
       description = "The Git revision from which this NixOS configuration was built.";
     };