Hex
Hex v2.0.6

View Source mix hex.package (Hex v2.0.6)

Fetches or diffs packages.

fetch-package

 Fetch package

Fetch a package tarball to the current directory.

$ mix hex.package fetch PACKAGE [VERSION] [--unpack] [--output PATH]

If version is not given, use the latest version.

You can pipe the fetched tarball to stdout by setting --output -.

diff-package-versions

 Diff package versions 

$ mix hex.package diff APP VERSION

This command compares the project's dependency APP against the target package version, unpacking the target version into temporary directory and running a diff command.

fetch-and-diff-package-contents-between-versions

 Fetch and diff package contents between versions 

$ mix hex.package diff PACKAGE VERSION1 VERSION2
$ mix hex.package diff PACKAGE VERSION1..VERSION2

This command fetches package tarballs for both versions, unpacks them into temporary directories and runs a diff command. Afterwards, the temporary directories are automatically deleted.

Note, similarly to when tarballs are fetched with mix deps.get, a hex_metadata.config is placed in each unpacked directory. This file contains package's metadata as Erlang terms and so we can additionally see the diff of that.

The exit code of the task is that of the underlying diff command.

diff-command

 Diff command

The diff command can be customized by setting diff_command configuration option, see mix help hex.config for more information. The default diff command is:

$ git diff --no-index __PATH1__ __PATH2__

The __PATH1__ and __PATH2__ placeholders will be interpolated with paths to directories of unpacked tarballs for each version.

Many diff commands supports coloured output but because we execute the command in non-interactive mode, they'd usually be disabled.

On Unix systems you can pipe the output to more commands, for example:

$ mix hex.package diff decimal 1.0.0..1.1.0 | colordiff | less -R

Here, the output of mix hex.package diff is piped to the colordiff utility to adds colours, which in turn is piped to less -R which "pages" it. (-R preserves escape codes which allows colours to work.)

Another option is to configure the diff command itself. For example, to force Git to always colour the output we can set the --color=always option:

$ mix hex.config diff_command "git diff --color=always --no-index __PATH1__ __PATH2__"
$ mix hex.package diff decimal 1.0.0..1.1.0

command-line-options

 Command line options

  • --unpack - Unpacks the tarball after fetching it

  • -o, --output - Sets output path. When used with --unpack it means the directory (Default: <app>-<version>). Otherwise, it specifies tarball path (Default: <app>-<version>.tar)

  • --organization ORGANIZATION - Set this for private packages belonging to an organization

  • --repo REPO - Set this for self-hosted Hex instances, default: hexpm