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A reminder for myself: don't rebase this PR until #3644 gets merged.

@djc How you would like to see my `rustup` porting history? I guess porting `rustup-init` is quite independent and deserves its own commit. However, porting `rustup` is a long and...

@djc Just found out that our clap builder broke `rustfmt`, so before my simplifying that that part of the code, our source file wasn't really being formatted. I feel a...

A reminder for myself: don't rebase this PR until #3650 gets merged.

~~Looks like https://stackoverflow.com/a/58492502 which points to incorrect self-referential symlinks being created...~~ This is in fact a failure in handling the error from our dependency `remove_dir_all`: > For the reference, `remove_dir_all`...

I expect to address this issue right after #3737. To complete the context, I'll repost @rbtcollins' reply on the expected semantics below: > - when making the directory, if it...

@ijackson [A new beta release is available](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/seeking-beta-testers-for-rustup-v1-27-1/20730), would you mind trying it out?

@axos88 Sorry for the inconvenience! The members of the Rustup team has changed quite a few times since 2017, and as a newcomer here I'm still trying to pick up...

> Nothing to explain @rami3l, it's unpaid open source software development, so thank you for putting in the effort! Many thanks for your understanding! > Let me know if you...

> From a user's perspective, the ideal feature would be to be able to give rustup a github repo & commit sha / branch name / local path, and have...