[RFC PATCH] Move rust gitcore crate to a different subdirectory
- From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
- Date
- Feb 4, 2026, 23:22 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20260204232208.1615320-1-mh@glandium.org>
While `src/` is the default directory convention for Rust projects, it is too generic in the context of a multi-language project that is barely starting to (optionally) use Rust code.
Additionally, having `Cargo.toml` at the top-level of the repository implies that one can run `cargo build` directly, but this doesn't produce anything useful on its own.
Moving all Rust-specific files into a dedicated `rust/` subdirectory makes things clearer.
---
The above is a post hoc justification. I do think it makes sense to do, but I should mention my real immediate motivation.
git-cinnabar, a git remote helper used to talk to Mercurial servers, is a project based on libgit (the C parts). As such, its repository includes the git codebase as a submodule.
As of about 3 years ago, most code that is not libgit in git-cinnabar is written in Rust, and is published on crates.io.
Part of publishing on crates.io involves running `cargo publish`, which does `cargo package` under the hood. `cargo package` has the feature of... not including directories that contain a Cargo.toml, so upgrading libgit to 2.52.0 breaks the publishing process because all of the git source code is skipped, and git-cinnabar can't be built as a result.
Of course, what this means is that this change is merely kicking the can down the road, because the problem will reappear when the rust code becomes non-optional in Git, thus why I'm making this RFC at the moment.
.gitignore | 2 ++
Makefile | 12 ++++++------
meson.build | 2 +-
Cargo.toml => rust/Cargo.toml | 1 +
{src => rust}/cargo-meson.sh | 0
{src => rust}/lib.rs | 0
{src => rust}/meson.build | 0
{src => rust}/varint.rs | 0
8 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
rename Cargo.toml => rust/Cargo.toml (89%)
rename {src => rust}/cargo-meson.sh (100%)
rename {src => rust}/lib.rs (100%)
rename {src => rust}/meson.build (100%)
rename {src => rust}/varint.rs (100%)diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 78a45cb5be..c7453b6fb2 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -258,3 +258,5 @@ Release/ /contrib/buildsystems/out /contrib/libgit-rs/target /contrib/libgit-sys/target +/rust/target +/rust/Cargo.lock diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 8aa489f3b6..d7e9b7fd75 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -939,9 +939,9 @@ TEST_SHELL_PATH = $(SHELL_PATH) LIB_FILE = libgit.a ifdef DEBUG -RUST_TARGET_DIR = target/debug +RUST_TARGET_DIR = rust/target/debug else -RUST_TARGET_DIR = target/release +RUST_TARGET_DIR = rust/target/release endif ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows) @@ -1545,8 +1545,8 @@ CLAR_TEST_OBJS += $(UNIT_TEST_DIR)/unit-test.o UNIT_TEST_OBJS += $(UNIT_TEST_DIR)/test-lib.o -RUST_SOURCES += src/lib.rs -RUST_SOURCES += src/varint.rs +RUST_SOURCES += rust/lib.rs +RUST_SOURCES += rust/varint.rs GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE @OLD=$$(cat $@ 2>/dev/null || :) && \ @@ -3007,8 +3007,8 @@ scalar$X: scalar.o GIT-LDFLAGS $(GITLIBS) $(LIB_FILE): $(LIB_OBJS) $(QUIET_AR)$(RM) $@ && $(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $^ -$(RUST_LIB): Cargo.toml $(RUST_SOURCES) - $(QUIET_CARGO)cargo build $(CARGO_ARGS) +$(RUST_LIB): rust/Cargo.toml $(RUST_SOURCES) + $(QUIET_CARGO)cargo build --manifest-path rust/Cargo.toml $(CARGO_ARGS) .PHONY: rust rust: $(RUST_LIB) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index dd52efd1c8..6732198042 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -1723,7 +1723,7 @@ libgit_sources += version_def_h cargo = find_program('cargo', dirs: program_path, native: true, required: get_option('rust')) rust_option = get_option('rust').disable_auto_if(not cargo.found()) if rust_option.allowed() - subdir('src') + subdir('rust') libgit_c_args += '-DWITH_RUST' if host_machine.system() == 'windows' diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/rust/Cargo.toml similarity index 89% rename from Cargo.toml rename to rust/Cargo.toml index 2f51bf5d5f..29e6d1f4e1 100644 --- a/Cargo.toml +++ b/rust/Cargo.toml @@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ rust-version = "1.49.0" [lib] crate-type = ["staticlib"] +path = "lib.rs" [dependencies] diff --git a/src/cargo-meson.sh b/rust/cargo-meson.sh similarity index 100% rename from src/cargo-meson.sh rename to rust/cargo-meson.sh diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/rust/lib.rs similarity index 100% rename from src/lib.rs rename to rust/lib.rs diff --git a/src/meson.build b/rust/meson.build similarity index 100% rename from src/meson.build rename to rust/meson.build diff --git a/src/varint.rs b/rust/varint.rs similarity index 100% rename from src/varint.rs rename to rust/varint.rs
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