import-tree with multiple directories

[cybervulture]

I've been brute forcing my way through learning nix without any dev experience and right now I'm working on setting up a dendritic config from scratch. I am wondering if there is a way to pass multiple directories to import-tree instead of a single one. I've done my best to read through the source code and documentation and tried a couple experiments but I cannot get it to work. I'm not sure if this is because it isn't possible or instead because I jumped in the deep end and am lacking understanding. The general practice seems to be placing everything as sub-directories under a "modules" directory but right now I would prefer to split my "hosts" out into an independent directory that is not a child of "modules".

Is it possible to pass multiple directories to import-tree with the current feature set and this is described somewhere I missed?

[theutz]

Very much so! See here for an overview

[theutz]

I personally prefer to name my root directory "nix", and I used to also like having multiple root does.

But I used watchexec a lot to run commands on file changes, and it became really useful to run watchexec -w nix ... instead of watchexec -w modules -w hosts ... so now I usually just do 1 root.

Either way is cool, though!

[cybervulture]

Awesome, thanks!...guess I just needed to go back to the beginning one more time for a full read-through of everything. I definitely get why most people like a single directory but multiple makes it easier for me to understand which is critical right now since its all so new.

[theutz]

It's all good! There's so much to absorb. Feel free to keep coming back here or any of the other denful repos / Matrix on your Nix journey if you need more help! We get better ideas about how to structure our docs when we see what real users want to do. And you're only new at this once, so your perspective is especially important!