I had tried to generate the protobuf code at build time many months
ago, but decided against it because it slowed down the build too
much. I didn't realize there was the
"cargo:rerun-if-changed=<filename>" feature that time. Given that that
exists, it seems like an obvious win to generate the source code at
build time.
I put the generated sources in `$OUT_DIR` (where [1] says they should
be), then include them in the `protos` module by using the `include!`
macro. The biggest problem with that is that I couldn't get IntelliJ
to understand it, even after enabling the experimental features
described in [2].
[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-script-examples.html#code-generation
[2] https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/issues/1908#issuecomment-592773865
The project's source of truth is now in Git and I really miss support
for anonymous heads and evolution (compared to when the code was in
Mercurial). I'm therefore more motivated to make the tool useful for
day-to-day work on small repos, so I can use it myself. Until now, I
had been more focused on improving performance when it was used as a
read-only client for medium-to-large repos.
One important feature for my day-to-day work is support for
ignores. This commit adds simple and effective, but somewhat hacky
support for that. libgit2 requires a repo to check if a file should be
ignored (presumably so it can respect `.git/info/excludes`). To work
around that, we create a temporary git repo in `/tmp/` whenever the
working copy is committed. We set that temporary git repo's working
copy to be shared with our own working copy. Due to
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2sharp/issues/1716 (which seems to
apply to the non-.NET version as well), this workaround unfortunately
leaves a .git file (pointing to the deleted temporary git repo) around
in every Jujube repo. That's always ignored by libgit2, so it's not
much of a problem.
