Re: Git haas gone wild (Rust)

On Sat, Sep 6, 2025, 1:47 PM Daniel Engberg <diizzy@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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
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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)
>> >
>> >     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>
>> >
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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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Warner
>
> Thanks,
>>
>> 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
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> Slow at what? Last time I played with it, it wasn't bad. Not as good as
native git, but not so much slower it annoyed me much...

Warner


Best regards,
> Daniel
>