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2025-10-15rust/varint: add safety commentsPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+15
The `decode_varint()` and `encode_varint()` functions in our Rust crate are reimplementations of the respective C functions. As such, we are naturally forced to use the same interface in both Rust and C, which makes use of raw pointers. The consequence is that the code needs to be marked as unsafe in Rust. It is common practice in Rust to provide safety documentation for every block that is marked as unsafe. This common practice is also enforced by Clippy, Rust's static analyser. We don't have Clippy wired up yet, and we could of course just disable this check. But we're about to wire it up, and it is reasonable to always enforce documentation for unsafe blocks. Add such safety comments to already squelch those warnings now. While at it, also document the functions' behaviour. Helped-by: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-02varint: reimplement as test balloon for RustPatrick Steinhardt1-0/+92
Implement a trivial test balloon for our Rust build infrastructure by reimplementing the "varint.c" subsystem in Rust. This subsystem is chosen because it is trivial to convert and because it doesn't have any dependencies to other components of Git. If support for Rust is enabled, we stop compiling "varint.c" and instead compile and use "src/varint.rs". Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>