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What does one do if they wish to see the actual contents of this crate? The web interface I'm looking at contains no hints at peeking inside, not even direct archive download links, nothing.

I can't believe that a good way to see what's inside is to make a rust project, add the crate and then go searching around the local filesystem.

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crates.io is a little bare-bones sometimes.

I usually use lib.rs instead: https://lib.rs/crates/rg

That has a link to source: https://docs.rs/crate/rg/0.1.0/source/

And here's the Rust code: https://docs.rs/crate/rg/0.1.0/source/src/main.rs

The source is hosted alongside the documentation at https://docs.rs. But far simpler than that is just going to the prominent GitHub link.

In this case, there isn't a GitHub link, as there's no repository in the Cargo.toml: https://docs.rs/crate/rg/0.1.0/source/Cargo.toml

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