[tomek@vz]

Linus Torvalds has raised concerns about Rust's automated formatting tool and pull request text formatting practices in a recent Linux Kernel Mailing List discussion.The conversation started on October 2nd when he responded to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem's pull request for Linux 6.18, submitted by maintainer Dave Airlie on October 1st. The pull request included Rust code additions for DRM drivers.
Linus first addressed what he saw as corrupted formatting in the pull request's changelog. The hierarchical indentation showing the organization of different subsections had been flattened.

> itsfoss

In early September, a request for comments (RFC) proposed making Rust mandatory in Git, potentially by the time of a future Git 3.0 release. The idea is not to immediately rewrite large sections of the tool but to prepare infrastructure and workflows so developers can confidently build with Rust in place.Patrick Steinhardt, who authored the RFC, put it like this:

As said, the entire goal is for us to have an easy playground that we can experiment on and develop the infrastructure incrementally without yet having to commit to anything.

I'm mostly splitting out the topic of introducing Rust from the larger series that introduce it into xdiff so that we can focus more on the actual process of introducing Rust into Git and less on the potential features that we want to build on top of it.

> itsfoss