Re: Git haas gone wild (Rust)

On Sat, Sep 6, 2025, 12:37 PM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 9/6/25 08:47, Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 6, 2025, 7:39 AM Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net
> <mailto:eugen@grosbein.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     06.09.2025 20:17, Matthias Andree wrote:
> >
> >      > Am 05.09.25 um 18:42 schrieb Michael Osipov:
> >      >> Folks,
> >      >>
> >      >> 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>
> >      >>
> >      >> Michael
> >      >
> >      > This poses a bootstrapping problem, (if we need Git to get the
> Rust build for ports... there's a chicken-and-egg problem)
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >     For the reference: https://github.com/johnmehr/gitup <
> https://github.com/johnmehr/gitup>
> >
> >
> >
> > Got is better supported and wouldn't be an instant burden.
> >
> > Warner
> >
> >
>
> 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 ...`
>

Yea. It's the perfect lightweight thing that can "upgrade" to native git if
need be.. plus upstream is more active, imho... these wrappers would ease
the transition.

Warner

Thanks,
>
> Kyle Evans
>
>