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Re:Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents by WD-42 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:34AM (#48475365)
The agents.md says “here’s the git source code” https://github.com/gitbutlerapp/grit/blob/main/AGENTS.md#sou...

This isn’t even a question of training data, thy fed the full git source code directly to the llm.

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Re:Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents by throw-the-towel on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @10:54AM (#48477267)
I wonder if imitating clean room reverse engineering with two LLMs would be enough for licence compliance.
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Re:Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents by cyphar on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:22PM (#48481319)
That already exists[1]. It looks like a joke but apparently they will accept your money to do it, which seems to cross the line of a joke.

[1]: https://malus.sh/

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Re:Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents by To1ne on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:44AM (#48487874)
I would say it's worse, the whole C Git source code is checked in https://github.com/gitbutlerapp/grit/tree/main/git
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