hunkpick 0.8.1

Non-interactive git add -p alternative — pick and split unified-diff hunks by index, range, or content id
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hunkpick

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Non-interactive unified-diff hunk picker and splitter — a pure stdin→stdout filter for staging subsets of changes without interactive prompts. It is the scriptable, non-interactive alternative to git add -p: pick or split hunks by index, range, or content id inside a pipeline, with no prompts and machine-readable output.

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Why / Motivation

Git's built-in way to stage a subset of hunks is the interactive git add -p. It prompts for each hunk, so it cannot be driven from a script, a Makefile, or an automated coding agent. The standard non-interactive substitute for git add -p has been filterdiff from the patchutils suite:

git diff path | filterdiff --hunks=1,3 | git apply --cached

filterdiff works at the granularity of whole hunks as they appear in the diff. If a single hunk contains multiple independent change runs separated by context lines, filterdiff cannot address them individually — the entire hunk is either included or excluded.

hunkpick fills this gap:

  • Auto-split: each hunk is automatically decomposed into minimal sub-hunks, one per contiguous change run. The resulting sub-hunks are addressable individually by a stable 1-based per-file index.
  • Per-file addressing: selectors use path:1,3 syntax, which is unambiguous in multi-file diffs and composable in scripts. A * selects every sub-hunk of a file.
  • Content ids: each sub-hunk also carries a content-derived @<id>. It hashes only the file paths and the sub-hunk's changed (+/-) lines — not its context or the @@ line numbers — so the id stays the same across a re-diff even when an edit elsewhere shifts its line numbers or staging a neighbour rewrites its surrounding context. An agent can capture @<id> once and keep using it across a staging loop. (Byte-identical changes share an id; list --json reports id_count. See Content ids.)
  • Correct anchors for a partial selection: leaving a sub-hunk out changes how many lines the result adds or removes, so every later hunk's new-side (+) start is recomputed from the emitted hunks alone. git apply searches from that position; a value carried over from the input diff would drift and, where the surrounding context repeats, land the change in the wrong place.
  • Built-in verification: the result diff is checked for internal consistency by default; an optional git apply --check run is available on demand.
  • Git-agnostic: hunkpick reads a diff from stdin and writes to stdout. It does not call git diff itself and works with any diff source (git, Mercurial, SVN, or plain diff -u output). Application to the index is left to the caller via git apply --cached.
  • Encoding-agnostic: the diff is processed as raw bytes end to end. Content in any encoding — including invalid UTF-8 — round-trips byte-for-byte; only the path and preview shown by list are decoded lossily for display.
  • Cross-platform, including Windows: filterdiff/patchutils is a Unix toolchain that is awkward to obtain and run on Windows. hunkpick is a single self-contained binary built for Linux, macOS, and Windows (x86_64-pc-windows-msvc), with no runtime dependencies.
  • AI-agent integration: the first consumer is an automated coding agent. Staging a precise subset of a diff programmatically needs non-interactive operation (no git add -p prompts), a stable machine-readable --json listing, deterministic per-file sub-hunk addressing, and structured exit codes — none of which the interactive git add -p or the whole-hunk-only filterdiff provides.

Installation

From crates.io:

cargo install hunkpick

Prebuilt binary via cargo-binstall (downloads the release artifact from GitHub instead of compiling):

cargo binstall hunkpick

Prebuilt binaries are published for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, aarch64-apple-darwin, x86_64-apple-darwin, and x86_64-pc-windows-msvc. On other targets cargo binstall falls back to a source build.

From source:

git clone https://github.com/VitalyOstanin/hunkpick.git
cd hunkpick
cargo build --release
# binary is at target/release/hunkpick

Minimum supported Rust version: 1.85.

Usage

All subcommands read a unified diff from stdin by default and write to stdout. Use -i, --input FILE to read from a file instead (- means stdin). See Input handling for the size limit.

list

Parse the diff, auto-split each hunk into minimal sub-hunks, and list them per file with their 1-based per-file index.

# Human-readable output (default)
git diff src/main.rs | hunkpick list

# Machine-readable JSON
git diff src/main.rs | hunkpick list --json

# Control colorisation
git diff src/main.rs | hunkpick list --color always

Colour in the default --color auto mode follows stdout: on when it is a terminal, off when piped. The NO_COLOR environment variable (any non-empty value) forces it off; CLICOLOR_FORCE (any non-empty value) forces it on even when piped. NO_COLOR takes precedence when both are set. An explicit --color always|never overrides all of these.

Example human output:

src/main.rs
  [1] 114ccaaa7ce6c0f1 @@ -10,4 +10,4 @@  +1 -1  +let x = 1;
  [2] 8002dd73f0dfd2f4 @@ -20,6 +20,6 @@  +1 -1  +fn bar() {

The 16-hex token after the index is the sub-hunk's content id (see Selectors). Each line then shows the hunk header, the +N -M change counts, and a preview of the first changed line. A sub-hunk that only adds lines (a file creation or a pure append, with no context and no deletions) is flagged [+add] between the counts and the preview — the same property the JSON listing reports as addition_only:

src/new_file.rs
  [1] 3f1c0a52d7b94e68 @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@  +12 -0 [+add]  +fn main() {

Text a terminal would act on rather than show — escape sequences, control bytes, bidirectional overrides — is escaped in this listing (\x1b, \u{202e}), so a diff being filtered cannot repaint or reorder what you are reading.

The JSON listing does not do this. Its text fields (path, header, preview, changed_lines[].text) reproduce the diff's own bytes: JSON escaping covers control characters, but a bidirectional override survives it and comes back out of any parser as the character it was. That is deliberate — the machine-readable mode reports what the diff says, not a display-safe rendering of it — so a consumer that prints these fields to a terminal must escape them itself. Prefer the human listing when a person is reading the output.

Two of those fields are also lossy for a path or a line that is not valid UTF-8 (legal on Unix): JSON must be UTF-8, so undecodable bytes become U+FFFD. A path taken from list --json therefore does not necessarily round-trip back into a path:N selector. For such a file, address the sub-hunk by its content id (@id), which is computed over the raw bytes and is exact.

JSON schema (--json): array of file objects, each with path, binary, and hunks (array of sub-hunk objects with index, id, id_count, old_start, old_lines, new_start, new_lines, added, deleted, addition_only, changed_lines, header, preview). id_count is how many sub-hunks across the whole patch share that id (1 = unique). addition_only is true when the sub-hunk is all additions (a file-creation or pure-append block). changed_lines is the sub-hunk's changed (+/-) lines in body order, each { i, kind, text }: i is the 1-based index for select INDEX@L<set>, kind is "add" or "del". The i indices are positional — they renumber after each staged round, unlike the sub-hunk id, so re-run list --json each round (there is no stable per-line id).

Binary files are listed with "binary": true and an empty hunks array.

select

Emit only the chosen sub-hunks as a valid unified diff.

# Select sub-hunks 1 and 3 from a single-file diff
git diff src/main.rs | hunkpick select 1,3 | git apply --cached

# Select sub-hunks from specific files in a multi-file diff
git diff | hunkpick select src/main.rs:1,3 src/lib.rs:2 | git apply --cached

# Same when the diff is taken over an explicit file list (git diff file1 file2 fileN).
# With more than one file, every selector must carry a path: prefix (a bare index is
# only allowed for a single-file diff).
git diff src/a.rs src/b.rs src/c.rs | hunkpick select src/a.rs:1,3 src/c.rs:2-4 | git apply --cached

# Select a range
git diff path | hunkpick select path:2-4 | git apply --cached

# Select every sub-hunk of a file (or the whole single-file diff)
git diff | hunkpick select src/main.rs:* | git apply --cached
git diff src/main.rs | hunkpick select '*' | git apply --cached

# Select by content id (from `list --json`), stable across re-diffs
git diff | hunkpick select @8002dd73f0dfd2f4 | git apply --cached

# Content ids work across a multi-file diff too: the file path is part of the id, so
# an id addresses the change in its own file (the same edit elsewhere gets another id).
git diff src/a.rs src/b.rs src/c.rs | hunkpick select @8002dd73f0dfd2f4 | git apply --cached

# Several ids at once, mixed with path: selectors. Read the ids from `list --json` first
# (the machine-readable form, intended for tooling):
git diff | hunkpick list --json
git diff | hunkpick select @8002dd73f0dfd2f4 @bf7bdaaf30c1e2d4 src/lib.rs:2 | git apply --cached

A binary file referenced by any selector index is emitted whole.

split

Split one original hunk (addressed by its 1-based index over the file's original hunks, before auto-splitting) at specified new-file line numbers. The line numbers must fall on context lines. The result is the complete patch with that hunk replaced by the pieces.

# Split original hunk 1 in a single-file diff at new-file line 5
git diff src/lib.rs | hunkpick split 1 --at 5

# Same for a named file in a multi-file diff
git diff | hunkpick split src/lib.rs:1 --at 5,12

# With git verification
git diff src/lib.rs | hunkpick split 1 --at 5 --verify-result-diff-git -C /path/to/repo

Staging recipe

# 1. Inspect what sub-hunks are available
git diff path/to/file.rs | hunkpick list --json

# 2. Stage only sub-hunks 1 and 3
git diff path/to/file.rs | hunkpick select 1,3 | git apply --cached

Splitting one file's mixed changes into several semantic commits, addressing sub-hunks by content id. Bare indices renumber after each staging, but a @<id> stays valid across the re-diff (see Content ids), so the listing is captured once and never re-read:

# 1. Capture the ids once. `id_count` flags any id that selects more than one.
git diff src/indicator.js | hunkpick list --json

# 2. Stage and commit each group by @id (one or more ids each), re-running git
#    diff each round. The ids from step 1 remain valid even though staging
#    renumbers the bare indices.
git diff src/indicator.js | hunkpick select @bf7bdaaf30c1e2d4 | git apply --cached
git commit -m "fix: ..."

git diff src/indicator.js | hunkpick select @058b36528575a870 @399e1cd421e268cc | git apply --cached
git commit -m "feat: ..."

# 3. Whatever is left is the last group; `*` takes the remaining sub-hunks.
git diff src/indicator.js | hunkpick select '*' | git apply --cached
git commit -m "chore: ..."

Selectors

Selectors are passed as positional arguments to select. Each selector addresses sub-hunks within one file by their 1-based per-file index as reported by list.

Form Meaning
1,3 Sub-hunks 1 and 3 (bare list, only for single-file diffs)
2-4 Sub-hunks 2, 3, and 4 (bare range, single-file only)
* Every sub-hunk (bare *, single-file only)
src/foo.rs:1,3 Sub-hunks 1 and 3 within src/foo.rs
src/foo.rs:2-4 Sub-hunks 2 through 4 within src/foo.rs
src/foo.rs:* Every sub-hunk of src/foo.rs
@<id> Every sub-hunk whose content id equals <id>
1@L<set> Cut sub-hunk 1 to a set of changed lines (see Splitting by individual changed lines)

Multiple selectors can be combined: hunkpick select src/a.rs:1 src/b.rs:2,3.

Path matching checks both the old and new path of a file diff entry. A bare index list or * (no path: prefix) is accepted only when the diff contains exactly one file; otherwise hunkpick exits with code 2.

The path part of a selector is compared as raw bytes, so a file whose name is not valid UTF-8 (legal on Unix) stays addressable — pass the name exactly as the shell holds it. Only the set after the : has to be ASCII. Git's core.quotePath (on by default) writes such names quoted and C-escaped in the diff; hunkpick decodes them, so the selector always spells the real name, not the escaped form.

Selectors are matched in order of precedence: a path:set form is recognised first (so a file literally named @foo is still addressable as @foo:1), then @id, then a bare set.

Content ids

list reports a 16-hex content id for every sub-hunk, also accepted by select as @<id>. The id is a hash of the file paths and the sub-hunk's changed (+/-) lines onlynot its context lines, the @@ line numbers, or the section header. Ids are matched case-insensitively. Because the file path is part of the hash, ids work across a multi-file diff: an @<id> addresses the change in its own file, and the same edit applied to a different file gets a different id.

Because only the changed lines feed the id, it is stable across a re-diff in every common case of an iterative diff → stage → re-diff loop:

  • An unrelated edit elsewhere that only shifts this change's line numbers leaves its id unchanged.
  • Staging a neighbouring sub-hunk — which rewrites this change's surrounding context, or causes the enclosing hunk to be re-split — also leaves its id unchanged, because the context is not part of the id.

So positional indices renumber as you stage changes, but a change's @<id> does not: capture it once from list and keep using it across the loop without re-reading the listing. The id changes only when the change's own +/- lines change.

Because context is excluded, two changes with identical +/- lines share an id even if their surrounding context differs; @<id> then selects all of them. list --json reports id_count (how many sub-hunks share the id), so a consumer can tell up front whether @<id> is unique (id_count == 1) or would select several; to address just one of several identical changes, use path:N. If an id is ever shared by sub-hunks whose changed lines actually differ (an accidental hash collision), select reports it and exits with code 2 — address those by path:N.

For the split subcommand the hunk address uses the same path:N / N form, but N refers to the 1-based index over the file's original hunks (not auto-split sub-hunks). split does not accept * or @id.

Splitting by individual changed lines: INDEX@L<set>

To stage part of one sub-hunk — including an atomic addition-only block (a block of new functions appended to a file, or a file-creation diff @@ -0,0 +1,N @@) that auto-split has no internal context line to cut at — address a subset of its changed (+/-) lines:

[path:]INDEX@L<set>

INDEX is the 1-based sub-hunk index from list. Only a numeric index may precede @ — content ids (@id) and * are not accepted here. <set> starts with L and then numbers the sub-hunk's changed lines 1..N in body order — deletions and additions share one numbering, exactly as list --json reports them under changed_lines. The set is a comma-separated list of indices and ranges, e.g. L1,3 or L1-2,4.

Each unselected deletion is kept as a context line and each unselected addition is omitted, and both leading and trailing context of the sub-hunk are retained. A subset is therefore realisable as a single hunk with no boundary restriction: a deletion surrounded by additions (+x -y +z) can be isolated, and a replacement's removals can be separated from its insertions.

Two cases are outside that:

  1. An entry that deletes the file entirely (+++ /dev/null, or a deleted file mode header). Turning an unselected deletion into a context line would say the file still has that line after the patch, which contradicts the entry. A partial @L on such an entry is a usage error (exit 2); selecting all of its changed lines is fine.
  2. A piece that ends up with no context at all — a whole-file replacement, a file creation or deletion. There is nothing to anchor it to, so git apply needs --unidiff-zero for it.

Example — split an addition-only block across two commits, one piece per round:

git diff src/lib.rs | hunkpick list                      # the block shows +N and the [+add] marker
git diff src/lib.rs | hunkpick select 1@L1-90 | git apply --cached && git commit -m 'feat: part one'
git diff src/lib.rs | hunkpick select 1@L1-30 | git apply --cached && git commit -m 'feat: part two'

The second round asks for 1-30, not 91-120: it runs a fresh git diff, which shows only the 30 lines the first round left unstaged, numbered from 1 again. Reusing the first round's numbers is a usage error (exit 2, "changed-line index 120 is out of range"). Selecting the whole remainder — 1 or * — works as well.

A sub-hunk addressed by @L must be addressed once per invocation: combining it with another @L, or with a whole selection of the same sub-hunk, is a usage error (exit 2) — the pieces would carry inconsistent line numbers. Stage further pieces in later diff → stage → re-diff rounds. A partial @L on an entry that deletes the file is a usage error for the reason given above.

Example — separate a replacement's removals from its insertions. list --json shows the changed lines and their indices:

"changed_lines": [
  { "i": 1, "kind": "del", "text": "a" },
  { "i": 2, "kind": "del", "text": "b" },
  { "i": 3, "kind": "add", "text": "A" },
  { "i": 4, "kind": "add", "text": "B" }
]
git diff src/lib.rs | hunkpick select 1@L1,2 | git apply --cached && git commit -m 'remove a, b'
git diff src/lib.rs | hunkpick select 1@L1,2 | git apply --cached && git commit -m 'add A, B'

The second round re-runs git diff: after the deletions are committed the sub-hunk holds only the two additions, now numbered 1 and 2.

Verification

Internal consistency check (default)

After select or split, hunkpick verifies the result diff for internal consistency: @@ header counts match the body line counts, hunks within each file are ordered, their old-file ranges do not overlap, and each hunk's new-side (+) start follows from its old-side start plus the net size of the hunks emitted before it. This check runs by default and requires no git repository.

To disable it:

git diff path | hunkpick select 1 --no-verify-result-diff-internal

Git apply check (optional)

Pass --verify-result-diff-git to additionally run git apply --check on the result diff before emitting it. This confirms the diff applies cleanly to the working tree.

Read that literally: to the working tree. git apply --check without --index compares against the files on disk, not against the index. In the staging pipeline this README is built around — git diff | hunkpick select ... | git apply --cached — the working tree already contains the edits the diff describes, so git reports patch does not apply and hunkpick exits 70 for a result that is perfectly correct. The flag is for the case where the tree is at the state the diff expects: checking a patch file against a clean checkout, or pointing -C at such a tree. It is not a routine safety net for the staging loop — the internal check above is, and it runs by default.

# The tree is at the pre-patch state: the check is meaningful here.
hunkpick select 1 -i patch.diff --verify-result-diff-git -C /path/to/clean/checkout

Use -C <DIR> to specify the working tree directory (default: current directory). -C requires --verify-result-diff-git; passing -C alone is a usage error.

git diff path | hunkpick select 1 --verify-result-diff-git -C /path/to/repo

Verification failure

On any verification failure, hunkpick writes a diagnostic to stderr, writes nothing to stdout, and exits with code 70. A git that cannot be started at all is a different matter — the check never ran, so that is exit 74, not a verdict on the diff.

Input handling

Source

By default the diff is read from stdin. -i, --input FILE reads from a file instead; -i - is an explicit stdin. The flag is available on every subcommand and may appear after it:

hunkpick list --input changes.diff
hunkpick select 1,3 -i changes.diff | git apply --cached
git diff | hunkpick select 1,3            # stdin (default)

Run without a pipe and without -i and hunkpick reads the terminal, as any filter does, after writing one line to stderr saying so — a paste-and-Ctrl-D still works, but a forgotten pipe no longer looks like a hang. In a pipeline stdin is not a terminal, so nothing is printed.

What the input may be

hunkpick reads a two-sided unified diff: what git diff, git format-patch, diff -u, and Mercurial or Subversion produce. Within that, the input is passed through unchanged — what comes in comes back out byte for byte, including CRLF endings, a \ No newline at end of file marker, the mail head and footer of a format-patch output, a full binary patch (git diff --binary), and a diff that arrived without a final newline.

The diff has to arrive as a UTF-8 (or otherwise ASCII-compatible) byte stream. A UTF-8 BOM is harmless and comes back out unchanged, but a UTF-16 or UTF-32 one is refused with a message naming the encoding — git diff > patch.diff in Windows PowerShell 5.1 produces UTF-16LE, and iconv -f UTF-16LE -t UTF-8 makes it readable. hunkpick does not re-encode input: the whole point of the byte-for-byte pass-through is that what comes out is what went in.

One format is deliberately not read: the combined diff git writes for a merge commit (git show <merge>, git diff --cc, @@@ headers). Its body has one marker column per parent, so a sub-hunk of it is not a two-sided change and cannot be addressed or sliced. hunkpick rejects such input as a usage error (exit code 2) rather than reading it as something it is not.

Size limit

Input (from stdin or a file) is capped at 64 MiB by default to guard against an accidentally unbounded stream. Exceeding the limit is a usage error (exit code 2). Override with --max-input-bytes N; 0 disables the limit.

The limit bounds the input, not the memory: hunkpick keeps the whole parsed diff in memory with one allocation per line, so peak RSS is a multiple of the input size, and the multiple grows as the average line gets shorter. Measured on a release build (/usr/bin/time -f %M):

Input select '*' list --json
18 MB, lines of ~13 bytes 196 MiB 349 MiB
61 MiB, lines of ~60 bytes 341 MiB 534 MiB
63 MiB (at the limit), ~40 B 427 MiB 713 MiB

That is 6x–19x the input, and the run at the default limit takes well under a second (0.49 s and 0.88 s for the row above). Plan for around a gigabyte when the lines are short, and raise --max-input-bytes only with that in mind.

hunkpick list --max-input-bytes 268435456 -i huge.diff   # raise to 256 MiB
hunkpick list --max-input-bytes 0 -i huge.diff           # no limit

Note: the working-set memory is several times the input size (the input buffer, the parsed model, and the emitted diff coexist), so a 64 MiB input corresponds to a few hundred MiB of peak RAM. Lower the limit if you run in a memory-constrained environment.

One other limit exists and is not configurable: a single selector may name at most 1 048 576 (2^20) indices, so 1-99999999 is a usage error (exit code 2) rather than an allocation. That ceiling is far above the sub-hunk count of any real diff — there is no legitimate reason to raise it, hence no flag.

Validation

hunkpick reads the input as raw bytes and validates it before parsing:

  • Empty or whitespace-only input is a no-op: nothing is written and the exit code is 0, for every subcommand.
  • Binary input (any NUL byte) is rejected with a diagnostic and exit code 2.
  • Text with no diff marker (no line starting with diff --git , --- , +++ , @@ , or Binary files ) is rejected with exit code 2.

Valid diff content is never decoded as UTF-8 internally, so lines in any byte encoding (or with invalid UTF-8) pass through unchanged.

Auto-split and non-overlap

hunkpick decomposes each hunk into sub-hunks automatically at boundaries between adjacent change runs. A "change run" is a maximal contiguous sequence of +/- lines. Context lines between change runs become the split boundary.

Non-overlap guarantee: sub-hunk old-file ranges are strictly non-overlapping. The boundary context (lines between two change runs) becomes the trailing context of the earlier sub-hunk. The later sub-hunk starts directly at its change run, with no leading copy of the boundary context.

This differs from git add -p, which can share context between adjacent hunks because it applies each hunk individually. hunkpick select emits all selected sub-hunks as a single combined patch applied in one git apply call; overlapping old-file ranges would cause git apply to reject the patch.

Round-trip property: selecting all sub-hunks for a file produces a diff that applies equivalently to the original hunk. The output is not byte-identical to the original (one hunk becomes several), but the applied result is the same.

Exit codes

Code Meaning
0 Success
2 Usage error: bad flag, bad selector, parse error, binary/non-diff input, input over size limit
70 Verification failure (internal consistency, or git apply --check rejecting the result)
74 I/O error: reading stdin, writing stdout, or being unable to run git for --verify-result-diff-git
130 Interrupted by SIGINT (default signal disposition: 128 + 2)
143 Terminated by SIGTERM (default signal disposition: 128 + 15)

A reader that closes the pipe first (hunkpick list | head) is not an error: the write ends the run with code 0, so the tool composes with set -o pipefail.

Comparison to filterdiff

Capability filterdiff hunkpick
Binary file pass-through
Select whole hunks from a diff
Works with any diff source (not git-specific)
Address sub-hunks by per-file index
Auto-split hunks at change-run boundaries
Built-in result verification
Explicit hunk split at a named line
Machine-readable listing (JSON)
Split any sub-hunk by individual changed lines

Development

Contributions are welcome. The crate has no build-time code generation and no external runtime dependencies, so the standard cargo workflow applies.

# Run the unit and integration tests through nextest (the documented runner).
cargo t

# Run the doc tests; nextest does not execute them.
cargo t-doc

# Lint with all warnings denied (the CI gate).
cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings

# Check formatting (CI verifies this; use `cargo fmt --all` to apply).
cargo fmt --all --check

# Verify the code still builds on the minimum supported Rust version (1.85).
cargo +1.85 build --all-features

t and t-doc are aliases from .cargo/config.toml; the CI workflow (.github/workflows/ci.yml) runs the same checks with cargo-nextest for the unit/integration tests and cargo test --doc for doc tests. Test runner limits (per-test timeout and thread count) live in .config/nextest.toml and apply only under nextest; without it installed, use cargo test --all-features -- --test-threads=4. Please keep tests fast and hermetic — several tests shell out to git apply --check and require git on PATH.

cargo t includes generated tests: a differential suite that compares hunkpick with real git over generated diffs, and property tests over shapes git will not produce on demand. The fuzz targets in fuzz/ need nightly and are run separately (RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN=nightly cargo fuzz run --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu parse -- -max_total_time=60 — both the toolchain variable and the explicit triple matter); CI builds each target on every push and runs a longer search twice a week. See CONTRIBUTING.md for what each kind covers, why those two flags are needed, and how a failure is reproduced.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

The released binary statically links third-party crates (all MIT / Apache-2.0 / Unicode-3.0). Their license texts and copyright notices ship inside every release archive as THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md, generated at release time by scripts/generate-notices.sh from about.toml. Installing from crates.io needs no such file — cargo resolves the dependencies' own licenses from Cargo.lock.