KIkibwen·Nov 7, 2022Submission
Cloning the Linux kernel in 30 seconds with gitoxide, 4.8x faster than Git
4 points · Open discussionGitoxideLabs
gitoxide
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GitoxideLabs / gitoxide
gitoxide
A tasteful, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
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As someone who has spent probably a percent or more of my life working on or thinking about state, and how it could or should just be decomposed 9p files when possible, about…
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8 sourcesI think it would be better for this post to link to https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide
In Git Written from Scratch in Rust`gitoxide` can currently perform many of the tasks required, and closing the loop for a full clone with worktree is going to happen at the end of this year.
That said, here is how to receive a pack from the remote and resolve it: `mkdir out && gix -v no-repo pack receive https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide out`.
In Git’s database internals II: commit history queriesgitoxide is a cool project, but it cant even clone yet:
https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide/discussions/300
In Git’s database internals II: commit history queriesGitoxide: Checking out he Linux kernel in under a second
1 points · Open discussionChecking out the Linux kernel in under a second
2 points · Open discussionCheck out the Linux kernel in less than a second with gitoxide
2 points · Open discussionOr my own project: https://github.com/martinvonz/jj.
I think https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide also plans to provide a different CLI, but I don't think they've started working on it.
In Learn the workings of Git, not just the commands (2015)