Cargo Workspace Dependency Inheritor

Utility that inherits dependencies from the main workspace if they occur 'n' or more times in the workspace.

Workspace Inheritance was stabilized in version 1.64. See workspace.package, workspace.dependencies, and inheriting-a-dependency-from-a-workspace for more information.

How to Use

To inherit a dependency that occurs five or more times in the workspace, use the following command:

bash cargo install cargo-dependency-inheritor cargo dependency-inheritor --workspace-path "path/to/workspace/Cargo.toml" -n 5

This command edits your toml files, make sure to have a back up

Process

Dependencies can be inherited from a workspace by specifying the dependency in the workspace's [workspace.dependencies] table. After that, add it to the [dependencies] table with workspace = true. This crate automates the process.

1. Read packages defined in [workspace] section of the workspace-file.
2. Note which dependencies occur 'n' or more times.
3. Update all dependencies that occurred 'n' or more times:
   1. Turn 'dependency = "0.1.3"' into inline tables.
   2. Add 'workspace=true' key-value to the dependency inline table.
   3. Remove 'version' from inline table if exists (this will be specified in the workspace file).
4. Add [workspace.dependencies] table to root workspace file with all the dependencies that occurred 'n' times and their version.

Result:

```toml // in a project [dependencies] tokio = { workspace = true }

// in the workspace [workspace.dependencies] tokio = "1.0" ```