Re: Git haas gone wild (Rust)

On 2025-09-06 20:52, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 6, 2025, 12:37 PM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:
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>     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,
>     >      >>
>     >      >> 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>
>     <http://20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0-3af1d25e0be9@pks.im/T/#t>
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>     >      >> Michael
>     >      >
>     >      > 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.
>     >
>     > 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.
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>     git itself can create an identical layout with `git clone
>     --separate-git-dir=/usr/src.git ...`
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> 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.
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> Warner
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>     Thanks,
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>     Kyle Evans
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Got was really slow last time I tested it (a while back), is that fixed now?
https://projects.pyret.net/files/public/freebsd/git-tools.htm

Best regards,
Daniel