What’s the long term strategy for this code base? Does the author expect community code contribution or just bug reports or maybe just test contributions?

In 6 months, seeing no adoption, move the repo to maintenance mode. Archive in 12 months.

I'm happy to take contributions if you want to throw some tokens at it. Bug reports would be amazing, since I haven't tested it for real very much (enough to know you can do basics).

I want to get it to the point where we can replace fork/exec'ing to an unknown Git binary or having said binary be an external dependency for GitButler. The networking stuff (push/fetch) is currently an external dep for both GitButler and Jujutsu (and pretty much every other Git-based tool in the world). I'm pretty sure I can get the project good enough at these networking ops (including all the hairy credential stuff) to be able to not need those fork/exec calls.

He will be probably super happy for starring the project.

The agents did all the work but _somebody_ has to test it for real on their own data to find the edge cases overlooked by AI. That's what users are for nowadays.