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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 07:14:20 JST Paul Cantrell

   I typed `brew install git-filter-repo`

   and

   here is the first ~22% of what happened next.

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     aburka 🫣 (aburka@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 07:14:59 JST aburka 🫣

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     @inthehands To install git-filter-repo, you must first invent the universe

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 07:17:44 JST Paul Cantrell

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     This is a tiny utility to do mass textual search and replace. It arguably should be part of git itself, or, that failing, a small script.

     The utility itself is ~4000 lines of Python.

     Its transitive dependencies appear to include emacs and •two• separate versions of PostreSQL.

     ??!?!

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     maegul (maegul@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 07:20:08 JST maegul

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     @inthehands I don’t think any tool has been both fundamental and as anxiety inducing as brew.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 07:21:17 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • maegul

     @maegul While that may be true, this is absolutely not brew’s fault. Careless inclusion of heavy dependencies is on tool & library authors.

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     maegul (maegul@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 07:21:36 JST maegul

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     @inthehands for sure!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 07:23:52 JST Paul Cantrell

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     UPDATE: I’m slightly unclear on whether these are all truly dependencies or just brew trying to be helpful and upgrade stuff, but (1) I think it’s the former and (2) I suspect python is the culprit.

     I could actually answer this question by looking at the logs, but life is too short for that shit.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 08:55:24 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • deadbeefmonster

     @deadbeefmonster Yeah, pretty sure I was just getting unwanted upgrades from that innocent install.

     This is officially an “old programmer yells at cloud” account.

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     deadbeefmonster (deadbeefmonster@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 08:55:26 JST deadbeefmonster

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     @inthehands Unsure what you had going on with your stuff, but this is what it is for me. 5 dependencies without nested dependencies.

     ==> Fetching dependencies for git-filter-repo: mpdecimal, readline, sqlite, xz and python@3.11

     ==> Installing dependencies for git-filter-repo: mpdecimal, readline, sqlite, xz and python@3.11

     Edit: It says you have 130+ outdated and it is updating them (in your screenshot). Probably a good idea to keep your packages up-to-date.

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     kccqzy (kccqzy@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 09:03:41 JST kccqzy

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     @inthehands I looked at the logs for you. And no these are not dependencies but dependents. There are only two direct dependencies and four transitive dependencies. Brew is trying to help you by upgrading everything else that also depends on the four dependencies it upgraded. This is needed since otherwise you would run into errors by the dynamic linker because a binary could require an older version of the library than the one you actually have.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 13:13:49 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Scott Francis

     @darkuncle
     To be fair, I’m sure the logic of accurately reproducing a whole commit graph is nontrivial.

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     Scott Francis (darkuncle@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 13:13:50 JST Scott Francis

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     @inthehands unclear why this isn’t just a shell out to sed(1) or awk(1)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 13:29:54 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Scott Francis

     @darkuncle
     Still sad that git won the distributed VCS wars.

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     Scott Francis (darkuncle@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 13:29:56 JST Scott Francis

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     @inthehands 100% (but much of that is git’s fault with its significantly more-complex-than-necessary design and operating model, especially when compared to other VCS options)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 13:40:31 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Scott Francis

     @darkuncle
     Oh my. I do not miss CVS.

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     Scott Francis (darkuncle@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 13:40:32 JST Scott Francis

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     @inthehands Linux kernel adoption kind of ended that battle (although I think OpenBSD at least still uses CVS!)