gitUpdater: init

- Add the 'gitUpdater' helper function to update git based packages, using the
'genericUpdater' function.
- Rework argument passing to the `list-git-tags' and 'list-archive-two-level-versions' scripts.
- Replace 'genericUpdater' plus 'list-git-tags' by 'gitUpdater'

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/common-updater/git-updater.nix b/pkgs/common-updater/git-updater.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..304bad9af60c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/common-updater/git-updater.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{ genericUpdater
+, common-updater-scripts
+}:
+
+{ pname
+, version
+, attrPath ? pname
+, ignoredVersions ? ""
+, rev-prefix ? ""
+, odd-unstable ? false
+, patchlevel-unstable ? false
+}:
+
+genericUpdater {
+  inherit pname version attrPath ignoredVersions rev-prefix odd-unstable patchlevel-unstable;
+  versionLister = "${common-updater-scripts}/bin/list-git-tags";
+}