Switch to using gitoxide by default for listing files

src/cargo/core/features.rs

@@ -909,8 +909,6 @@ fn parse_git(it: impl Iterator<Item = impl AsRef<str>>) -> CargoResult<Option<Gi
 pub struct GitoxideFeatures {
     /// All fetches are done with `gitoxide`, which includes git dependencies as well as the crates index.
     pub fetch: bool,
-    /// Listing of files suitable for packaging with Git support.
-    pub list_files: bool,
     /// Checkout git dependencies using `gitoxide` (submodules are still handled by git2 ATM, and filters
     /// like linefeed conversions are unsupported).
     pub checkout: bool,
@@ -924,7 +922,6 @@ impl GitoxideFeatures {
     fn all() -> Self {
         GitoxideFeatures {
             fetch: true,
-            list_files: true,
             checkout: true,
             internal_use_git2: false,
         }
@@ -935,7 +932,6 @@ impl GitoxideFeatures {
     fn safe() -> Self {
         GitoxideFeatures {
             fetch: true,
-            list_files: true,
             checkout: true,
             internal_use_git2: false,
         }
@@ -948,7 +944,6 @@ fn parse_gitoxide(
     let mut out = GitoxideFeatures::default();
     let GitoxideFeatures {
         fetch,
-        list_files,
         checkout,
         internal_use_git2,
     } = &mut out;
@@ -957,10 +952,9 @@ fn parse_gitoxide(
         match e.as_ref() {
             "fetch" => *fetch = true,
             "checkout" => *checkout = true,
-            "list-files" => *list_files = true,
             "internal-use-git2" => *internal_use_git2 = true,
             _ => {
-                bail!("unstable 'gitoxide' only takes `fetch`, `list-files` and 'checkout' as valid input, for shallow fetches see `-Zgit=shallow-index,shallow-deps`")
+                bail!("unstable 'gitoxide' only takes `fetch` and 'checkout' as valid input, for shallow fetches see `-Zgit=shallow-index,shallow-deps`")
             }
         }
     }

src/cargo/sources/path.rs

@@ -143,13 +143,14 @@ impl<'gctx> PathSource<'gctx> {
         let git_repo = if no_include_option {
             if self
                 .gctx
-                .cli_unstable()
-                .gitoxide
-                .map_or(false, |features| features.list_files)
+                .get_env("__CARGO_GITOXIDE_DISABLE_LIST_FILES")
+                .ok()
+                .as_deref()
+                == Some("1")
             {
-                self.discover_gix_repo(root)?.map(Git2OrGixRepository::Gix)
-            } else {
                 self.discover_git_repo(root)?.map(Git2OrGixRepository::Git2)
+            } else {
+                self.discover_gix_repo(root)?.map(Git2OrGixRepository::Gix)
             }
         } else {
             None

tests/testsuite/package.rs

@@ -3510,3 +3510,36 @@ Please update the `build` setting in the manifest at `[CWD]/Cargo.toml` and poin
         .with_stderr(&expect_msg)
         .run();
 }
+
+#[cargo_test]
+fn symlink_manifest_path() {
+    // Test `cargo install --manifest-path` pointing through a symlink.
+    if !symlink_supported() {
+        return;
+    }
+    let p = git::new("foo", |p| {
+        p.file("Cargo.toml", &basic_manifest("foo", "1.0.0"))
+            .file("src/main.rs", "fn main() {}")
+            // Triggers discover_git_and_list_files for detecting changed files.
+            .file("build.rs", "fn main() {}")
+    });
+    #[cfg(unix)]
+    use std::os::unix::fs::symlink;
+    #[cfg(windows)]
+    use std::os::windows::fs::symlink_dir as symlink;
+
+    let foo_symlink = paths::root().join("foo-symlink");
+    t!(symlink(p.root(), &foo_symlink));
+
+    cargo_process("package --no-verify --manifest-path")
+        .arg(foo_symlink.join("Cargo.toml"))
+        .with_stderr(
+            "\
+warning: manifest has no description, license, license-file, documentation, homepage or repository.
+See https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html#package-metadata for more info.
+[PACKAGING] foo v1.0.0 ([..]foo-symlink)
+[PACKAGED] 5 files[..]
+",
+        )
+        .run()
+}