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Updating Nix daemon settings

TLDR;

Lang: shell 
 sudo kill-all nix-daemon

or

Lang: shell 
 nix -k <command you were going to run>

Why do you need to restart the daemon when a config file is changed as opposed to just telling it to reload? Not sure but this works for now.

NixOS autoreload config file on change

Nix only tracks things added to git

when using flakes you must at least stage changes to git, otherwise you will get very difficult to debug errors

eg. your working directory looks like

Lang: shell 
fd

and you make a change to systems/default.nix.

Lang: shell 
git status

Then you attempt to use or import systems, as an exmaple just try to execute it inline with the repl:

,#+begin_src shell nix repl –file systems/ #+end_src

you will actually be execcuting on the previous state of default.nix that git has in its object store until you git add, or commit etc.