From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: hard dependency on Git? (was bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts)
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:20:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0n4wp0d.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qf4ivsr.fsf@gmail.com> (Simon Tournier's message of "Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:17:24 +0200")
Hi,
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 at 16:23, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Note that the patch series adds a hard dependency on Git.
>> This is because the existing ‘git-fetch’ code depends on Git,
>> which is itself motivated by the fact that Git supports
>> shallow clones and libgit2/Guile-Git doesn’t.
That's no longer true, as of libgit2 v1.7.0 [0]. I already have it
packaged in a branch, but I need to iron out dependent breakages.
[0] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v1.7.0
So given there's no technical reasons not to use libgit2, I'd use that
and keep the closure size down.
--
Thanks,
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-11 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-11 15:17 hard dependency on Git? (was bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts) Simon Tournier
2023-09-11 17:51 ` wolf
2023-09-11 18:26 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-11 22:48 ` comparing commit-relation using Scheme+libgit2 vs shellout plumbing Git Simon Tournier
2023-09-12 11:07 ` Attila Lendvai
2023-09-14 10:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-14 11:56 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-11 17:52 ` hard dependency on Git? (was bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts) Simon Tournier
2023-09-11 18:20 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2023-09-12 9:06 ` Josselin Poiret
2023-09-12 12:56 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-12 14:08 ` wolf
2023-09-14 10:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-14 16:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-14 17:28 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-17 2:16 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-09-18 13:56 ` [bug#65866] " Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-18 14:45 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-19 14:43 ` bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-19 17:09 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-11 19:35 ` hard dependency on Git? (was bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts) Vagrant Cascadian
2023-09-11 21:23 ` Csepp
2023-09-12 7:44 ` Simon Tournier
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