{lib, stdenvNoCC, git, git-lfs, cacert}: let
  urlToName = url: rev: let
    inherit (lib) removeSuffix splitString last;
    base = last (splitString ":" (baseNameOf (removeSuffix "/" url)));

    matched = builtins.match "(.*)\\.git" base;

    short = builtins.substring 0 7 rev;

    appendShort = if (builtins.match "[a-f0-9]*" rev) != null
      then "-${short}"
      else "";
  in "${if matched == null then base else builtins.head matched}${appendShort}";
in
{ url, rev ? "HEAD", md5 ? "", sha256 ? "", leaveDotGit ? deepClone
, fetchSubmodules ? true, deepClone ? false
, branchName ? null
, name ? urlToName url rev
, # Shell code executed after the file has been fetched
  # successfully. This can do things like check or transform the file.
  postFetch ? ""
, preferLocalBuild ? true
, fetchLFS ? false
, # Shell code to build a netrc file for BASIC auth
  netrcPhase ? null
, # Impure env vars (https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-advanced-attributes)
  # needed for netrcPhase
  netrcImpureEnvVars ? []
}:

/* NOTE:
   fetchgit has one problem: git fetch only works for refs.
   This is because fetching arbitrary (maybe dangling) commits may be a security risk
   and checking whether a commit belongs to a ref is expensive. This may
   change in the future when some caching is added to git (?)
   Usually refs are either tags (refs/tags/*) or branches (refs/heads/*)
   Cloning branches will make the hash check fail when there is an update.
   But not all patches we want can be accessed by tags.

   The workaround is getting the last n commits so that it's likely that they
   still contain the hash we want.

   for now : increase depth iteratively (TODO)

   real fix: ask git folks to add a
   git fetch $HASH contained in $BRANCH
   facility because checking that $HASH is contained in $BRANCH is less
   expensive than fetching --depth $N.
   Even if git folks implemented this feature soon it may take years until
   server admins start using the new version?
*/

assert deepClone -> leaveDotGit;

if md5 != "" then
  throw "fetchgit does not support md5 anymore, please use sha256"
else
stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
  inherit name;
  builder = ./builder.sh;
  fetcher = ./nix-prefetch-git;  # This must be a string to ensure it's called with bash.

  nativeBuildInputs = [ git ]
    ++ lib.optionals fetchLFS [ git-lfs ];

  outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
  outputHashMode = "recursive";
  outputHash = sha256;

  inherit url rev leaveDotGit fetchLFS fetchSubmodules deepClone branchName postFetch;

  postHook = if netrcPhase == null then null else ''
    ${netrcPhase}
    # required that git uses the netrc file
    mv {,.}netrc
    export HOME=$PWD
  '';

  GIT_SSL_CAINFO = "${cacert}/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt";

  impureEnvVars = lib.fetchers.proxyImpureEnvVars ++ netrcImpureEnvVars ++ [
    "GIT_PROXY_COMMAND" "NIX_GIT_SSL_CAINFO" "SOCKS_SERVER"
  ];

  inherit preferLocalBuild;
}