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Subject: Re: EOL of (usable) git, switch to Mercurial?
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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:29:32 +0200
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Andrew Schulman via Cygwin writes:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 10:23:13 +0200, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin
> <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
>>Since git has decided to EOL itself by a switch to RUST (which poses a
>>chicken and egg problem for bootstrapping, among other technical,
>>political and licensing issues), 
>
> For those of us who aren't in the know, could you please provide some links to
> git's plans and what the issues are? A search on "git rust" turns up a lot of
> stuff but it's hard to know what's relevant.

TL;DR: This did not happen (not yet anyway) and it won't happen in the
near future either.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0-3af1d25e0be9@pks.im/


Regards,
Achim.
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