Project notes from Grit.
Short deep dives into building a Git-compatible, library-oriented Rust implementation.
Three weeks and 22 releases after v0.5.0, grit is a library first, has the everyday commands people actually use, matches git's speed on a typical command, and has new ideas like change ids and hunk selection for agents. Here is the short version, with a link to the full report.
The factory's second roadmap set out to make grit's everyday commands take the options people actually use, with change ids on every commit. Fifteen items and about 1,100 commits later it's done. Here is what landed, what didn't, and why the factory is switching to dogfooding next.
The agent factory that maintains Grit has been running for two weeks. Here is what happens inside it, who does what, how a change travels from a plan to main, and what 2,656 agents built along the way, with the real data behind every chart.
Grit now has an almost fully autonomous maintainer. Cloud agents plan the roadmap, fix issues, review each other's work, land changes, cut a release every day and test it on Linux, macOS and Windows. Here's how it works and where to watch it.
We removed the Git-compatible grit-git CLI and the ported test harness. Grit is now two things: a complete Git library and a simpler CLI built on it.
Grit got far enough on Git's own test suite that the next problem isn't compatibility. It's speed and a library worth linking. Here's what changes.
The grit binary you install is now the simple, library-first CLI. The fully git-compatible mirror moves to grit-git.
A short note on rebuilding Git in Rust, as a library, with compatibility as the benchmark.