# Replit — Revamping the GitHub Import Flow

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2022-07-21
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/nix-github-imports
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17947-revamping-the-github-import-flow
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit has updated its GitHub import flow to use Nix-based templates, replacing the previous Bash-style imports. The new flow automatically detects a repository's language via the GitHub API and recommends the correct template, preserving existing .replit and replit.nix configurations. The change aims to make imports faster and more intuitive, and brings Replit closer to fully migrating from its legacy Polygott backend.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://replit.com/blog/nix-github-imports:

> We would start with an existing Nix language template, clear out the unused files from within it that were associated with the template, then clone in the files from GitHub.

---

Record: https://forck.live/items/17947-revamping-the-github-import-flow
Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt
Current issue: https://forck.live/feed.md