Re: [PATCH v3] Move rust gitcore crate to a different subdirectory

On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 09:13:49PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

On 2026-09-09 at 01:38:58, Mike Hommey wrote:

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Having `Cargo.toml` at the top-level of the repository implies that one
can run `cargo build` directly, but this doesn't produce anything useful
on its own.

Additionally, when including the git source as a submodule of a Rust
project, it prevents the git source from being included at all in the
crate package because cargo skips directories that contain a Cargo.toml,
assuming that everything in the directory is relevant to the crate.

So what I understand is that you have a project which has Git as a
submodule and you want to include the Git source code into the crate
package for that project.  In other words, you're vendoring Git to use
its C components, but not its Rust components.

Indeed.

If that's the case, how do you plan that to work in a few releases when
Git 3.0 comes out and the Rust components become mandatory?

Assuming the crate doesn't grow to the point of adding a dependency on
libgit-rs or libgit-sys, I'm thinking of publishing the gitcore crate to
crates.io in a namespaced manner (although if it could be published by
the git project that would be even better).

Mike