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It'll be interesting to see where the gitoxide[1] project goes, being a rust implementation of git

Gitoxide is useful in other Rust programs that need to interact with git such as Cargo[1] or Helix[2].

[1]: https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide/issues/106

[2]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3890

I wouldn’t hold my breath. The scope of Git is quite large and Git-Oxide is just getting started. What I’d like to see is the Git core team adopt Rust gradually for certain subprograms.

that would fit how git itself evolved. A fair amount of code was in perl and stayed that way for awhile before being written in C.

many of the porcelain commands are or used to be in perl/bash

I don't know how far he intends to take it, but the author of gitoxide (which is just a library, like libgit2) uses it to power a git CLI called gix. As of October it looks like it can do fetches and clones: https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide/discussions/623 .

Since the git CLI is subcommand-based, it wouldn't be too hard to provide replacements for individual git subcommands one at a time. If you replaced git clone, push, pull, commit, checkout, and rebase, that would suffice for 95% of git invocations.

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