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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


  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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