Re: Git haas gone wild (Rust)

On 9/6/25 08:47, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 6, 2025, 7:39 AM Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net <mailto:eugen@grosbein.net>> wrote:
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>     06.09.2025 20:17, Matthias Andree wrote:
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>      > Am 05.09.25 um 18:42 schrieb Michael Osipov:
>      >> Folks,
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>      >> you might want to enjoy or discuss: https://lore.kernel.org/ <https://lore.kernel.org/> git/20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0-3af1d25e0be9@pks.im/T/#t <http://20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0-3af1d25e0be9@pks.im/T/#t>
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>      >> Michael
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>      > This poses a bootstrapping problem, (if we need Git to get the Rust build for ports... there's a chicken-and-egg problem)
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>     Maybe it is time for us to bring net/gitup into base system.
>     It's written in pure C and comes under BSD2CLAUSE license.
>     Also, it matured over many years and runs just fine.
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>     For the reference: https://github.com/johnmehr/gitup <https://github.com/johnmehr/gitup>
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> Got is better supported and wouldn't be an instant burden.
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> Warner
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fuz@ and I discussed this a little bit yesterday, too.  I think it'd be fine to introduce got if we have
a simple wrapper to checkout (and maybe update) a repository in a git-compatible way so that one could
easily migrate between the two.  Something like: clone the repository to /usr/{src,ports}.git, checkout a
worktree to /usr/{src,ports}, then add a git-style .git symlink to point back to the appropriate .git dir
so that git recognizes it as a worktree.

git itself can create an identical layout with `git clone --separate-git-dir=/usr/src.git ...`

Thanks,

Kyle Evans