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authorThomas Tuegel <ttuegel@gmail.com>2016-03-01 08:38:07 -0600
committerThomas Tuegel <ttuegel@gmail.com>2016-03-01 08:38:07 -0600
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Merge pull request #13592 from Profpatsch/copyPathToStore-doc
lib/copyPathToStore: annotate docstring
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diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix b/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix
index 6cd82adf8e70..93b8b1cbc428 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/trivial-builders.nix
@@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ rec {
       '';
 
   # Copy a path to the Nix store.
+  # Nix automatically copies files to the store before stringifying paths.
+  # If you need the store path of a file, ${copyPathToStore <path>} can be
+  # shortened to ${<path>}.
   copyPathToStore = builtins.filterSource (p: t: true);
 
   # Copy a list of paths to the Nix store.