Merge pull request #4803 from ShamrockLee/nix-channel-list-generations

Add `nix-channel --list-generations`

doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-channel.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 # Synopsis
 
-`nix-channel` {`--add` url [*name*] | `--remove` *name* | `--list` | `--update` [*names…*] | `--rollback` [*generation*] }
+`nix-channel` {`--add` url [*name*] | `--remove` *name* | `--list` | `--update` [*names…*] | `--list-generations` | `--rollback` [*generation*] }
 
 # Description
 
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ This command has the following operations:
     for `nix-env` operations (by symlinking them from the directory
     `~/.nix-defexpr`).
 
+  - `--list-generations`\
+    Prints a list of all the current existing generations for the
+    channel profile.
+
+    Works the same way as
+    ```
+    nix-env --profile /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/channels --list-generations
+    ```
+
   - `--rollback` \[*generation*\]\
     Reverts the previous call to `nix-channel
                     --update`. Optionally, you can specify a specific channel generation

doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Release X.Y (202?-??-??)
 
+- [`nix-channel`](../command-ref/nix-channel.md) now supports a `--list-generations` subcommand