Sticky Notes: cargo upgrade

2023-12-24

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While cargo already has most common commands integrated, one I miss from cargo-edit is cargo upgrade. It's super convenient if you want to bump all dependencies at once to the latest (in)compatible version.

This is how to install just this single executable:

cargo install cargo-edit \
    --no-default-features \
    -F upgrade,vendored-libgit2 \
    --bin cargo-upgrade

Notes:

--no-default-features to avoid building all commands from a compilation perspective
-F upgrade to opt-in for the upgrade command (it's a required feature for the binary)
--bin cargo-upgrade to actually say, we want just this binary from the project, not all of them
-F vendored-libgit2: readding from the default features