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+# Maintainer: Christoph Brandau <c.brandau91@googlemail.com>
+#
+# Local/in-tree PKGBUILD: builds straight from this working directory (no
+# source download, no tauri-bundler/AppImage step) and installs the raw
+# binary + desktop entry. Run `makepkg -si` from the repo root.
+#
+# Bump pkgver whenever package.json / tauri.conf.json's version changes
+# (the release CI keeps those two in sync already).
+
+pkgname=gitty
+pkgver=2026.7.18
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="A lightweight, modern Git client built with Tauri"
+arch=('x86_64')
+url="https://git.cbsk-tech.de/Christoph/GitLite"
+license=('MIT')
+depends=('webkit2gtk-4.1' 'gtk3' 'git' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
+makedepends=('rust' 'nodejs' 'npm')
+options=('!lto')
+
+source=()
+sha256sums=()
+
+build() {
+  cd "$startdir"
+  npm ci
+  # Build through the Tauri CLI (not a raw `cargo build --release`): it enables
+  # the `custom-protocol` cargo feature that makes the binary load the embedded
+  # `dist/` assets instead of the Vite dev server URL (127.0.0.1:1420), and runs
+  # `beforeBuildCommand` (`npm run build`) for us. `--no-bundle` skips deb/rpm/
+  # appimage packaging (and with it linuxdeploy/FUSE) since pacman owns that here.
+  npm run tauri -- build --no-bundle
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd "$startdir"
+
+  install -Dm755 "src-tauri/target/release/gitty" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/gitty"
+
+  install -Dm644 "src-tauri/icons/32x32.png" \
+    "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/gitty.png"
+  install -Dm644 "src-tauri/icons/128x128.png" \
+    "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/gitty.png"
+  install -Dm644 "src-tauri/icons/128x128@2x.png" \
+    "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256@2/apps/gitty.png"
+  install -Dm644 "src-tauri/icons/icon.png" \
+    "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/gitty.png"
+
+  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
+  cat > "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/gitty.desktop" <<-EOF
+	[Desktop Entry]
+	Type=Application
+	Name=Gitty
+	Comment=$pkgdesc
+	Exec=gitty
+	Icon=gitty
+	Terminal=false
+	Categories=Development;RevisionControl;
+	StartupWMClass=gitty
+	EOF
+
+  install -Dm644 "README.md" "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/README.md"
+}