feat: use "craft.git" for git where possible
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Merged in canonical/craft-parts#925 via commit 11be8c7a, preferring craft.git when available and falling back to git; fixes #900.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: PR #925 was approved and merged as commit 11be8c7a. Its implementation uses craft.git when available and otherwise falls back to git, resolving #900.
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Issue body
If "craft.git" is available on the PATH, use it. Otherwise, fallback to "git".
Fixes #900
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
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| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged in canonical/craft-parts#925 via commit 11be8c7a, preferring craft.git when available and falling back to git; fixes #900. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged via commit 11be8c7a: added craft_parts/utils/git.py get_git_command() preferring craft.git (via shutil.which) with git fallback; shipped in 2.2.0 changelog. Closes #900. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged canonical/craft-parts#925 (commit 11be8c7a), adding craft.git-first Git execution with a git fallback and fixing #900. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged a feature prioritizing craft.git over system git when available, with a fallback to git. Approved by two reviewers, this resolves issue #900 with 93 additions and 11 deletions across four files. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged a feature prioritizing craft.git when available on the PATH, with a fallback to standard git. Resolves issue #900. |
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canonical/craft-parts#900
(confidence 100%)
PR #925 explicitly fixes this issue and adds the requested craft.git preference.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #900 use `craft.git` for git operation instead of relying on build-package | craft-parts | closed | Git operations now prefer craft.git and fall back to system git. Implemented by merged PR #925 in commit 11be8c7a and released in craft-parts 2.2.0. | |
| #3993 dependencies: update craft-parts to 1.15.2 | snapcraft | merged | Merged in commit 0cc7f3fe4, updating craft-parts to 1.15.2 so Git sources accept git+ssh:// URLs. | |
| #576 feat: extend craft_application.git module | craft-application | merged | PR #576 merged, extending GitRepo with remote configuration, commit checks, last-commit lookup, fetch, and craft.git integration; Ruff follow-up #580 was also merged. | |
| #756 feat(snap): add git as craft.git to rockcraft | rockcraft | merged | Merged PR canonical/rockcraft#756 added git to the rockcraft snap as craft.git, enabling Craft libraries to perform Git-based operations. | |
| #1024 feat: allow short commit hashes | craft-parts | merged | Merged in canonical/craft-parts#1024 (commit 8f544241); source-commit now accepts abbreviated hashes, fixing #1008 and shipping in 2.7.0. |