Rust Validator

A Rust CLI tool for validating .gitinfo files.

Requirements

• Rust 1.70+ (with Cargo)

Build

cd validators/rust
cargo build --release

The binary will be at target/release/validate (or validate.exe on Windows).

Usage

# Validate .gitinfo in current directory
./target/release/validate

# Validate a specific file
./target/release/validate path/to/.gitinfo

Or run directly with Cargo:

cargo run -- path/to/.gitinfo

Features

• Parses JSONC (strips // and /* */ comments)
• Removes trailing commas (valid in JSONC, invalid in JSON)
• Validates against the gitinfo JSON Schema
• Checks types, formats (URI, email), and patterns
• Enforces additionalProperties: false
• Returns exit code 0 on success, 1 on failure
• Color-coded output (green for success, red for errors)

Example Output

✓ .gitinfo is valid

Validation failed for .gitinfo:
  - .root: invalid URI "not-a-url"
  - root: unknown property "invalid_field"

Dependencies

• serde / serde_json - JSON parsing
• json_comments - JSONC comment stripping
• regex - Pattern matching for validation