Rust is coming to Git

[Marius Schamschula]

No objection for any of us using current macOS versions!

However, I see the build bots fail to build numerous package updates, because the platform doesn’t have a working rust build.

Remember the reluctance to move libsvg to rust? FreeBSD made that switch years ago, we still have not done the same.

Marius
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Marius Schamschula




> On Jul 4, 2026, at 7:28 AM, Link Dupont via macports-dev <macports-dev at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> 
> What is the objection to using Rust? Seems like a fine language to me, and delivers some huge safety improvements over languages like C.
> 
> Link
> 
>> On Jul 3, 2026, at 1:23 AM, Sergey Fedorov <vital.had at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > https://github.com/Libre-WD-40/git is a fork of Git that aims to deliver Git without Rust
>> 
>> Oh, that’s cool, thank you.
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 5:45 AM Herby G <herby.gillot at gmail.com <mailto:herby.gillot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Heads up, all:
>>> 
>>> As per the subject, Rust is coming to Git.
>>> 
>>> As of Git 2.55.0, you need to pass NO_RUST=1 to disable Rust components in the build process.
>>> 
>>> It seems that Rust will become mandatory by the time we reach Git v3.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/Libre-WD-40/git is a fork of Git that aims to deliver Git without Rust (named as such because WD-40 removes rust).
>>> 
>>> We have a PR for a port of it here: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/33401
>>> 
>>> Thanks.





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