Cloning and Building a Flake

src/nix/flake-clone.md

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# Examples

* Check out the source code of the `dwarffs` flake and build it:

  ```console
  # nix flake clone dwarffs --dest dwarffs
  # cd dwarffs
  # nix build
  ```

# Description

This command performs a Git or Mercurial clone of the repository
containing the source code of the flake *flake-url*.

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Title: Cloning and Building a Flake

Summary

This section provides an example of how to clone and build a flake using `nix flake clone` and `nix build` commands. It describes how to obtain the source code of a flake from its URL and then build it.