Eric Huss

I think the short answer is yes, libgcc_s.so is needed for now. I don't know if it is possible (or desirable) to avoid. But you're also asking the wrong person,...

Using `-L` requires `extern crate` and is a rather crude system that won't handle multiple crates with the same name. #706 is open to add more first-class support of external...

It looks like this would affect 2049 files in the index, which is an uncomfortably large number. It would be good to get some data on how long that will...

Unfortunately we are stuck on an older version of the syntax highlighting library we use. We'll either need to resolve https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/1622 or switch to a new library such as https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/1652.

Sorry, I can't quite understand what you are asking for. Is this asking for adding the last time a page was updated? Or the last time the book was built?...

> when building the bundled libgit2 code, make sure to avoid using system-provided headers. This should be the normal behavior. Perhaps there is an issue with `pkg-config` or perhaps an...

@gluax Can you provide a complete example that doesn't work? I don't think the issue here is necessarily related to refspecs, but instead perhaps the repository was initialized without a...

This sounds like an issue that should be filed at https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues. It looks like [`git_repository_is_empty`](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/523d5e0f6865a1c1aea791d21b5edc58a3ed745d/src/repository.c#L2412-L2431) checks the `init.defaultbranch` config value, which is not set when using the `--initial-branch` option.

Target-specific features for dependencies has been implemented and is available as a nightly-only feature on the latest nightly 2020-02-23. See the tracking issue at #7914. If people following this issue...

@JAicewizard I think it would be good to start by writing some clear motivations and use cases. Alex can't remember why he opened this issue, and we couldn't think of...