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30 | 49 | |
9,423 | 5,278 | |
0.8% | - | |
9.6 | 8.9 | |
7 days ago | 11 days ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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libgit2
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Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative
Everything that is replicated on the network is stored as a Git object, using the libgit2[0] library. This library uses hardened SHA-1 internally, which is called sha1dc (for "detect collision").
[0]: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/ac0f2245510f6c75db1b...
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Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency
This is delightful and I can't wait to try it out. Right now, the libgit2 project (https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2) has a custom HTTP git server wrapper that will throttle the responses down to a very slow rate. It's fun watching a `git clone` running over 2400 baud modem speeds, but it's actually been incredibly helpful for testing timeouts, odd buffering problems, and other things that crop up in weird network environments.
I'd love to jettison our hacky custom code and use something off-the-shelf instead.
- Things I just don't like about Git
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GitKraken Client Is Migrating from Libgit2 to the Git Executable
I've built a UI on top of libgit2 and I wish that this blog post expanded on which new features are missing (sparse checkout?).
To quote: "The migration to Git Executable will allow us to resolve long-standing issues with GitKraken Client, such as poor LFS performance, SSH configuration support and many other features/performance improvements."
I agree on LFS performance on Windows. SSH config support is a pain due to libssh2 but openssh support is on the way (https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6617).
There are many cons to using the Git executable itself (parsing output, error reporting, version handling). Seems to me that there's more to this?
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Mold 2.0.0
I'm curious about the license change? This is an executable is it not? Invoking it as a separate process does not require you make the software calling it GPL so switching to MIT should have no affect in the common case.
If the authors really wanted a more permissive license, then instead of relicensing from AGPL to MIT they should have gone AGPL with linking exception. An example of a project that does this is libgit2 [1]. This licensing is more permissive but still permits the author to sell commercial licenses to those making closed-source code changes.
[1] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2#license
- Shadow cloning support landed in libgit2
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I'm feeling lazy today but want a better excuse than "working on documention" for the morning standup.
Using libxlsxwriter and libgit, it's straightforward -- just putting the equivalent of git shortlog and lines added and removed into a line of cells.
- libgit2 fails to verify SSH keys by default
ZLib
- Zlib 1.3.1 Out
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Vulnerability found after scanning debian 12 bookworm VM
A fix has been checked into the upstream git repo: https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/843 but a release has not yet been made including it.
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ZLib VS jdeflate - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 25 Nov 2023
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CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome)
So the real issue here is that the lack of tree validation before the tree construction, I believe. I'm surprised that this check was not yet implemented (I actually checked libwebp to make sure that I was missing one). Given this blind spot, an automated test based on the domain knowledge is likely useless to catch this bug.
[1] https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/master/examples/enough.c
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Notes: Advanced Node.js Concepts by Stephen Grider
In the source code of the Node.js opensource project, lib folder contains JavaScript code, mostly wrappers over C++ and function definitions. On the contrary, src folder contains C++ implementations of the functions, which pulls dependencies from the V8 project, the libuv project, the zlib project, the llhttp project, and many more - which are all placed at the deps folder.
- Zlib 1.3 · madler/zlib 09155ea
- Zlib 1.3 – A Spiffy yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library
- Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01
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Dear Pirates Donate as much as you can
Seeing the text in red got me thinking for a moment, "wow, didn't realize pirates had such love for an open-source compression library"
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Updated packages: do Arch devs update/build the original source as is or...
cd "${srcdir}/zlib-$pkgver/contrib/minizip" make install DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/zlib-$pkgver/LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/minizip/LICENSE" # https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/229 rm "${pkgdir}/usr/include/minizip/crypt.h"
What are some alternatives?
pygit2 - Python bindings for libgit2
zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
elfshaker - elfshaker stores binary objects efficiently
LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
git-branchless - High-velocity, monorepo-scale workflow for Git
Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor
horde - Horde is a distributed Supervisor and Registry backed by DeltaCrdt
LZMA - (Unofficial) Git mirror of LZMA SDK releases
git-date - Bindings onto the date parsing code from Git
Onion - C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.
pygooglenews - If Google News had a Python library
Minizip-ng - Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.