Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2024, #05; Thu, 12)

> * ps/build (2024-12-07) 24 commits
>   (merged to 'next' on 2024-12-11 at cb270b3dea)
>  + Introduce support for the Meson build system
>  + Documentation: add comparison of build systems
>  + t: allow overriding build dir
>  + t: better support for out-of-tree builds
>  + Documentation: extract script to generate a list of mergetools
>  + Documentation: teach "cmd-list.perl" about out-of-tree builds
>  + Documentation: allow sourcing generated includes from separate dir
>  + Makefile: simplify building of templates
>  + Makefile: write absolute program path into bin-wrappers
>  + Makefile: allow "bin-wrappers/" directory to exist
>  + Makefile: refactor generators to be PWD-independent
>  + Makefile: extract script to generate gitweb.js
>  + Makefile: extract script to generate gitweb.cgi
>  + Makefile: extract script to massage Python scripts
>  + Makefile: extract script to massage Shell scripts
>  + Makefile: use "generate-perl.sh" to massage Perl library
>  + Makefile: extract script to massage Perl scripts
>  + Makefile: consistently use PERL_PATH
>  + Makefile: generate doc versions via GIT-VERSION-GEN
>  + Makefile: generate "git.rc" via GIT-VERSION-GEN
>  + Makefile: propagate Git version via generated header
>  + Makefile: refactor GIT-VERSION-GEN to be reusable
>  + Makefile: consistently use @PLACEHOLDER@ to substitute
>  + Makefile: use common template for GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
>  (this branch is used by ps/3.0-remote-deprecation and ps/ci-meson.)
>
>  Build procedure update plus introduction of Mason based builds.

> * js/libgit-rust (2024-10-16) 5 commits
>  - Makefile: add option to build and test libgit-rs and libgit-rs-sys
>  - libgit: add higher-level libgit crate
>  - libgit-sys: also export some config_set functions
>  - libgit-sys: introduce Rust wrapper for libgit.a
>  - common-main: split init and exit code into new files
>
>  An rust binding to libgit.a functions has been introduced.