For an example of implementation, it has been resolved recently on VSCode side through this PR: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/224395/files

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This issue is not really a bug, more an improvement in my opinion. It has been added to VSCode a few releases ago:

• [Git 2.45] Reftable storage backend is not supported microsoft/vscode#221642
• Test: Git - support reftable storage microsoft/vscode#226598

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The issue is still present with the latest version of Zed.

This would be awesome as right now git ops built into Zed don't work for reftable enabled repos..

Just some notes in case they are useful: the Git project, hosting the reftables C implementation which is licensed in a usable way, started working on a Rust port. The license will be just as permissive, and the Rust crate, despite being built as 1:1 port, can then be much more easily be used from Rust projects.

gitoxide will then pick it up and make it available transparently. I do not, however, know what the plans are related to git2 which is the libgit2 based crate that is used here.

Thanks @Byron, it means that projects like starship will automatically get support once gitoxide will make use of the crate. I also opened a similar issue on starship. Please ping me when such feature is available on gitoxide, and kudos for you 🚀

i wonder if it would be possible to have a (non-ideal) adapter that just shells out to git for diffs, etc? that way, zed stays usable even if libgit2 is missing a feature

cc: libgit2/libgit2#7117

This is still a problem in Zed 0.217.3 stable...

Hello, it looks like the PR for reftable support in libgit2 has just been merged.
Once a new version including this PR is tagged, we might be able to resolve this issue by updating libgit2.

libgit2/libgit2#7117 (comment)