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> Doesn't Cargo depend on being able to 'git clone' software for it to be installable? No. The registry is controlled using git, and Cargo allows you to pull i

• steveklabnik 6y ago
  To be a little more explicit about it: * The index of packages on crates.io is stored in a git repository * Cargo knows how to clone that down without you having git installed * The contents of packages are not acquired by doing a git clone; source code is stored in an S3 bucket, and Cargo downloads it directly. * You can have your project depend on a package that lives in a git repository, but you cannot upload a crate to crates.io that depends on a git repository. This means that this feature is mostly useful for end projects and private libraries, not public dependencies.