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On 2025-09-09 10:29, ASSI via Cygwin wrote:
> Andrew Schulman via Cygwin writes:
>> On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 10:23:13 +0200, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin 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),

What appear to be the remaining licensing and political 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 AT pks DOT im/
I consider 2026H2 - a year - pretty near, with possibly another year and a half 
of security patches, giving us 1-2.5 years, realistically 1.5 years to decide 
whether we could get rust working, or should migrate to a git successor.

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