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Event
13:30
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13:55
Day 2
Taming Git complexity with Rust and Gitoxide
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<p>Git's internal design is both elegant and notoriously complex. Building reliable tooling on top of it means dealing with purpose-built data structures, performance trade-offs, and years of historical quirks.</p> <p>In this talk, we’ll explore how Rust, together with Gitoxide[0], makes it possible to create fast, correct, and ergonomic version-control tooling. We’ll look at how Rust’s ownership model and type system help avoid whole classes of errors, and how Gitoxide exposes a safe and composable interface to the raw Git data structures.</p> <p>Using some real-world examples, we’ll walk through: - How Git stores its data and why interacting with it is non-trivial - How the Gitoxide APIs to make this tractable - Patterns for building high-level Git workflows - A short demo of how these pieces come together in the GitButler CLI</p> <p>Attendees will come away with a deeper understanding of Git’s inner workings, practical insights into using Gitoxide, and perhaps ideas for creating next-gen developer tooling using Rust.</p> <p>[0] https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide</p>