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Git 2.55 makes Rust enabled by default for the first time, meaning any build pipeline that compiles Git from source will fail without a Rust toolchain unless the new NO_RUST flag is explicitly set.

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Rust's December update is a big one. It's replacing the experimentation system for blueprints with something that's a bit more reasonable: a workbench-based tech tree system, so that you can always be ...

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