EOL of (usable) git, switch to Mercurial?

Tue Sep 9 14:05:06 GMT 2025

On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 10:23:13 +0200, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>Since git has decided to EOL itself by a switch to RUST (which poses a
>chicken and egg problem for bootstrapping, among other technical,
>political and licensing issues), 

For those of us who aren't in the know, could you please provide some links to
git's plans and what the issues are? A search on "git rust" turns up a lot of
stuff but it's hard to know what's relevant. Thank you, Andrew