Wish: Document how to test with modified `libgit2`

[Geert Stappers]

Hi,

Here the person that encountered issue #988 (and suspects that #1005 is also involved).

My wish is that cargo-generate has documented
how to test with a local modified source of libgit2.

In Cargo.toml is no reference to "libgit".
If there was, it would be starting point for changing into something local.

File Cargo.lock has several references to git2.
But Cargo.lock is a generated file, I don't know if would make sense to modify it.

Regards Stappers

[Geert Stappers]

There is a thing as git-fetch-with-cli = true.

Learnt that from #817 (comment) it might solve #664 (Hi @tiann (reporter of #664)).

[Sven Kanoldt]

if you look at the Cargo.toml you'll find the following:

[features]
default = ["vendored-libgit2"]
vendored-libgit2 = ["git2/vendored-libgit2"]

As you can see libgit2 is a dependency, or more precisely it's a feature called vendored-libgit2 of git2.

[Sven Kanoldt]

There is a thing as git-fetch-with-cli = true.

Yes, you can force cargo (thus also cargo-generate) into using the git cli for fetch.
It's documented here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#configuration-format

[net]
retry = 3                   # network retries
git-fetch-with-cli = true   # use the `git` executable for git operations
offline = true              # do not access the network

[Geert Stappers]

if you look at the Cargo.toml you'll find the following:

[features]
default = ["vendored-libgit2"]
vendored-libgit2 = ["git2/vendored-libgit2"]

As you can see libgit2 is a dependency, or more precisely it's a feature called vendored-libgit2 of git2.

With what needs the ["git2/vendored-libgit2"] be replaced into
to get location of modified libgit2 in correct format?

[Geert Stappers]

There is a thing as git-fetch-with-cli = true.

Yes, you can force cargo (thus also cargo-generate) into using the git cli for fetch.

Ah, good to known. Thanks.

(And my apology that I did bring it up in this issue.)

[Geert Stappers]

if you look at the Cargo.toml you'll find the following:

[features]
default = ["vendored-libgit2"]
vendored-libgit2 = ["git2/vendored-libgit2"]

As you can see libgit2 is a dependency, or more precisely it's a feature called vendored-libgit2 of git2.

With what needs the ["git2/vendored-libgit2"] be replaced into to get location of modified libgit2 in correct format?

https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs is where trail is leading to.
And I'm already chasing other trails, right now I don't know if I should pursuit a libgit2 issue.

[Geert Stappers]

right now I don't know if I should pursuit a libgit2 issue.

Meanwhile I know I won't.