shell.nix: Enable e.g. --arg nixpkgs ./. (NixOS#330823)

shell.nix

@@ -4,17 +4,25 @@
 # because every time you change any file and do another `nix develop`,
 # it would create another copy of the entire ~500MB tree in the store.
 # See https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6530 for the future
-{
- system ? builtins.currentSystem,
-}:
+#
+# Note: We use a pinned Nixpkgs so that the tools are readily available even
+# when making changes that would otherwise require a new build of those tools.
+# If you'd like to test out changes to the tools themselves, you can pass
+#
+# nix-shell --arg nixpkgs ./.
+#
 let
  pinnedNixpkgs = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ci/pinned-nixpkgs.json);
+in
+{
+ system ? builtins.currentSystem,
 
- nixpkgs = fetchTarball {
+ nixpkgs ? fetchTarball {
  url = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/${pinnedNixpkgs.rev}.tar.gz";
  sha256 = pinnedNixpkgs.sha256;
- };
-
+ },
+}:
+let
  pkgs = import nixpkgs {
  inherit system;
  config = { };