Re: [PATCH 0/4] gitlab-ci: fix the cargo invocation in the Windows job

From: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2026, 13:37 UTC
Message-ID: <CAOLa=ZTgF+Qw_1FMUEF-YyBYo-gKnhPVk+qxd+gt1PMrt9GYqQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2233.git.1789819933.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

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> In https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq8q4zosri.fsf@gitster.g/, Junio mentioned
> that the GitLab CI seems broken since I enabled Rust in the Windows-based CI
> jobs. This patch series should fix it (lightly tested, but I don't have a
> whole lot of build minutes on GitLab).
>

I've created an MR [1] on our team repo for testing, I'll try to update with newer versions (if any). The pipeline for this version is here [2].

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/git/-/merge_requests/671 [2]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/git/-/pipelines/2863888081

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> Johannes Schindelin (4):
>   ci(gitlab,windows): provision GNU Rust for SDK-based MinGW builds
>   ci(gitlab,windows): preserve exclusions during dependency setup
>   ci(gitlab,windows): fix Rust setup for GitLab's MinGW build
>   ci(gitlab,windows): provide GNU Rust's host-linker support
>
>  .gitlab-ci.yml              |  5 ++++-
>  ci/install-dependencies.ps1 | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: d38352cd43ab9745686d697872408bc3249a153f
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2233%2Fdscho%2Ffix-cargo-in-windows-gitlab-ci-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2233/dscho/fix-cargo-in-windows-gitlab-ci-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2233
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