Voxtype repo history rewrite - action required for forks/clones

[peteonrails]

Hi,

First, thank you SO much for your contributions and feedback.

I'm cleaning up the voxtype repository to remove ~650MB of release binaries that were committed to git history. These binaries are already available on GitHub Releases, so storing them in the repo was redundant and causing slow clones.

What's happening:

• The releases/ folder is being removed from tracking
• Git history will be rewritten with git filter-repo to purge the binaries
• This will force-push to main, changing commit hashes

If you have a fork or clone, you'll have to update:

# Option 1: Fresh clone (easiest)
rm -rf voxtype
git clone https://github.com/peteonrails/voxtype

# Option 2: Reset existing clone
cd voxtype
git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/main

Timeline: Planning to do this within the next few days, but wanted to check with the community first.

Curious to hear your thoughts @materemias @robzolkos @dromanov @emilien-jegou

If you have any uncommitted work or open PRs, please let me know and I'll coordinate timing.

Thanks for your contributions to voxtype!

— Pete

[robzolkos]

Yes makes perfect sense. No issues my end.

[materemias]

makes sense, I only have the pending pull request, nothing new.

[peteonrails]

OK! I want to put some more thought into the hotkey handling of language changes, especially with the wayland compositor bindings introduced as the preferred integration mechanism. I like the feature and want to incorporate it somehow, but need a little think time on it.

[materemias]

I was thinking modifier keys could be used for other features as well eg to have postprocessing or auto enter. Worth to check how it could be generally incorporated.

[reisset]

like this?
hold leftalt for regular voxtype speech-to-text (My config)
But, add a param that allows users to -> Hold LeftAlt+LeftCTRL -> voxtype + local LLM post process pipeline?
If so, I think that's a good addition.

[peteonrails]

With Voxtype included in the Omarchy 3.3.0 release, we started seeing a big uptick in interest, so I accelerated this plan and have completed the force-push.

[reisset]

That is awesome to see! I personally really like Omarchy and the idea of it, I just got stuck trying to learn all this new arch stuff lol. I went back to my comfort ubuntu zone for now. But I truly enjoy your software daily since finding it. Glad i could be a part of it.

[peteonrails]

Is there anything in the .deb package that we could configure to make installation and configuration more user-friendly? I haven't been using Ubuntu as a daily driver for quite some time (although I still use a lot of Ubuntu containers)

[reisset]

Well, realistically, I wouldn't be sure myself! your official website already includes a Copy-pastable block of code to run, and it essentially runs through download/installation well. I think the next step forward for user-friendliness, as always, is be able to configure /setup voxtype via a GUI.

[materemias]

@peteonrails now that you have deleted the local arch install script what is your prefered way of building and installing a dev version?

[peteonrails]

Would you prefer to use a Makefile and do make install or use cargo xtask install? I was leaning toward installing the xtask crate, but it adds a dependency. Any concerns with that?

[materemias]

cargo makes more sense to me, just because of the native tooling of the project. not that i had anything against the local install shell script at all :)

[peteonrails]

OK great. I am pulling together 0.4.11 and it will include:

voxtype development tasks

Usage: cargo xtask <COMMAND> [OPTIONS]

Commands:
  install    Build release binary and install to /usr/local/bin (requires sudo)
  uninstall  Remove voxtype from /usr/local/bin (requires sudo)
  dist       Build optimized release binary for distribution

Options:
   --vulkan   Build with Vulkan GPU acceleration (alias: --gpu)

Examples:
   cargo xtask install            # Build CPU-only and install
   cargo xtask install --vulkan   # Build with Vulkan GPU support and install
   cargo xtask dist --vulkan      # Build Vulkan binary for distribution
   cargo xtask uninstall          # Remove installed binary

[materemias]

thanks for this! btw why did you chose to exclude CLAUDE.md?