Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git

Re:Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git by ByronBates on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:20AM (#24143580)

Let me reply with the most tedious parts, as I wouldn't want to make the impression of labelling git as 'bad' - I have been fascinated by it for more than 10 years now and it's time to scratch my itch for good.

Please note that everything I name can certainly be fixed by some tool that already exists, and that's great. It's just that I would like to have 'this one tool' that gets most things right and be happy with it alone.

That said, here is my list:

* adding individual files to the staging area/index

* looking at the commit history and copying individual commit hashes

* pulling while assuring no merge commit is created, or: simplified trunk-based development

* resumable clones

* seeing what's going on during all remote operations - here in China GitHub is incredibly slow most of the time and connections can be flaky

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Re:Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git by littlestymaar on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:28PM (#24149551)

Thanks! That's really interesting to see that only 2 of your list (around adding and pulling) were on my radar as git usability issue, and not even in my top five!

The third one is a bit unclear to me:

> looking at the commit history and copying individual commit hashes

What do you mean exactly by that?

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Re:Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git by ByronBates on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:37PM (#24153020)

I frequently use `tig` to see the commit history, and pull out a single commit hash for use in `git checkout` or to reference it elsewhere. Probably it's just me not knowing all the `tig` hotkeys to make that easy, but it's my hope to have `gitoxide` as an obvious way to do things at least I need commonly.

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