Provide a package implementation with gix-status.

This should also help fixing these spurious "cannot package because
some excluded file is untracked" issues.

Author: Byron

Cargo.lock

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ flate2 = { version = "1.1.1", default-features = false, features = ["zlib-rs"] }
 git2 = "0.20.0"
 git2-curl = "0.21.0"
 # When updating this, also see if `gix-transport` further down needs updating or some auth-related tests will fail.
-gix = { git = "https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide", branch = "improvements", version = "0.72.1", default-features = false, features = ["blocking-http-transport-curl", "progress-tree", "parallel", "dirwalk"] }
+gix = { git = "https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide", branch = "improvements", version = "0.72.1", default-features = false, features = ["blocking-http-transport-curl", "progress-tree", "parallel", "dirwalk", "status"] }
 glob = "0.3.2"
 handlebars = { version = "6.3.1", features = ["dir_source"] }
 hex = "0.4.3"

Cargo.toml

@@ -450,7 +450,13 @@ fn prepare_archive(
     let src_files = src.list_files(pkg)?;
 
     // Check (git) repository state, getting the current commit hash.
-    let vcs_info = vcs::check_repo_state(pkg, &src_files, ws, &opts)?;
+    // TODO: where is the feature toggle?
+    let use_gix = true;
+    let vcs_info = if use_gix {
+        vcs::gix::check_repo_state(pkg, &src_files, ws, &opts)
+    } else {
+        vcs::check_repo_state(pkg, &src_files, ws, &opts)
+    }?;
 
     build_ar_list(ws, pkg, src_files, vcs_info, opts.include_lockfile)
 }