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by StableAlkyne 30 days ago
Clicking through to https://git-annex.branchable.com/no_llm_code/

It looks like git after 2.22 was dropped because it took an LLM commit. Same with ghc.

If I have to choose between this or git and the latest ghc, I think I'm going to just wait for someone to fork annex.

I don't even feel strongly one way or the other on AI stuff; pragmatically, I'm just not going to stop using the most widely used version controller, or Haskell, just for some guy's (forkable, AGPL licensed) hobby project.
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remywang 30 days ago
> This will probably prevent git-annex from taking advantage of most new improvements to the Haskell language going forward. That is deeply unfortunate. This is the main reason why git-annex is not guaranteed to never change to depend on LLM generated code, because cutting it off from all future Haskell language improvements may be worse than the alternative.

Looks like they are aware, and git-annex has been around for decades written by one of the best Haskellers. “Some guys hobby project” is not fair

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pseudalopex 30 days ago
They said the non LLM dependency build was not default and could become untenable.

They said git-annex supports git back to 2.22. Not git after 2.22 was dropped.

An incompatible change in ghc would break compilation of other software also.

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zahlman 30 days ago
TFA is about the dependencies of this project. How does that prevent you from using those things yourself?
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