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Jeff Hostetler
230098b355 fscache: make fscache_enabled() public
Make fscache_enabled() function public rather than static.
Remove unneeded fscache_is_enabled() function.
Change is_fscache_enabled() macro to call fscache_enabled().

is_fscache_enabled() now takes a pathname so that the answer
is more precise and mean "is fscache enabled for this pathname",
since fscache only stores repo-relative paths and not absolute
paths, we can avoid attempting lookups for absolute paths.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Jeff Hostetler
5a1b0a2297 dir.c: make add_excludes aware of fscache during status
Teach read_directory_recursive() and add_excludes() to
be aware of optional fscache and avoid trying to open()
and fstat() non-existant ".gitignore" files in every
directory in the worktree.

The current code in add_excludes() calls open() and then
fstat() for a ".gitignore" file in each directory present
in the worktree.  Change that when fscache is enabled to
call lstat() first and if present, call open().

This seems backwards because both lstat needs to do more
work than fstat.  But when fscache is enabled, fscache will
already know if the .gitignore file exists and can completely
avoid the IO calls.  This works because of the lstat diversion
to mingw_lstat when fscache is enabled.

This reduced status times on a 350K file enlistment of the
Windows repo on a NVMe SSD by 0.25 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Jeff Hostetler
4b0252f525 fscache: remember not-found directories
Teach FSCACHE to remember "not found" directories.

This is a performance optimization.

FSCACHE is a performance optimization available for Windows.  It
intercepts Posix-style lstat() calls into an in-memory directory
using FindFirst/FindNext.  It improves performance on Windows by
catching the first lstat() call in a directory, using FindFirst/
FindNext to read the list of files (and attribute data) for the
entire directory into the cache, and short-cut subsequent lstat()
calls in the same directory.  This gives a major performance
boost on Windows.

However, it does not remember "not found" directories.  When STATUS
runs and there are missing directories, the lstat() interception
fails to find the parent directory and simply return ENOENT for the
file -- it does not remember that the FindFirst on the directory
failed. Thus subsequent lstat() calls in the same directory, each
re-attempt the FindFirst.  This completely defeats any performance
gains.

This can be seen by doing a sparse-checkout on a large repo and
then doing a read-tree to reset the skip-worktree bits and then
running status.

This change reduced status times for my very large repo by 60%.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Jeff Hostetler
74b2db5118 fscache: add key for GIT_TRACE_FSCACHE
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Karsten Blees
1d84d7ca0f fscache: load directories only once
If multiple threads access a directory that is not yet in the cache, the
directory will be loaded by each thread. Only one of the results is added
to the cache, all others are leaked. This wastes performance and memory.

On cache miss, add a future object to the cache to indicate that the
directory is currently being loaded. Subsequent threads register themselves
with the future object and wait. When the first thread has loaded the
directory, it replaces the future object with the result and notifies
waiting threads.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Karsten Blees
41b251bc0c mingw: add a cache below mingw's lstat and dirent implementations
Checking the work tree status is quite slow on Windows, due to slow
`lstat()` emulation (git calls `lstat()` once for each file in the
index). Windows operating system APIs seem to be much better at scanning
the status of entire directories than checking single files.

Add an `lstat()` implementation that uses a cache for lstat data. Cache
misses read the entire parent directory and add it to the cache.
Subsequent `lstat()` calls for the same directory are served directly
from the cache.

Also implement `opendir()`/`readdir()`/`closedir()` so that they create
and use directory listings in the cache.

The cache doesn't track file system changes and doesn't plug into any
modifying file APIs, so it has to be explicitly enabled for git functions
that don't modify the working copy.

Note: in an earlier version of this patch, the cache was always active and
tracked file system changes via ReadDirectoryChangesW. However, this was
much more complex and had negative impact on the performance of modifying
git commands such as 'git checkout'.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Karsten Blees
4034bf3581 mingw: add infrastructure for read-only file system level caches
Add a macro to mark code sections that only read from the file system,
along with a config option and documentation.

This facilitates implementation of relatively simple file system level
caches without the need to synchronize with the file system.

Enable read-only sections for 'git status' and preload_index.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Karsten Blees
eccb9369b9 Win32: make the lstat implementation pluggable
Emulating the POSIX lstat API on Windows via GetFileAttributes[Ex] is quite
slow. Windows operating system APIs seem to be much better at scanning the
status of entire directories than checking single files. A caching
implementation may improve performance by bulk-reading entire directories
or reusing data obtained via opendir / readdir.

Make the lstat implementation pluggable so that it can be switched at
runtime, e.g. based on a config option.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Karsten Blees
1c28f1f701 mingw: make the dirent implementation pluggable
Emulating the POSIX `dirent` API on Windows via
`FindFirstFile()`/`FindNextFile()` is pretty staightforward, however,
most of the information provided in the `WIN32_FIND_DATA` structure is
thrown away in the process. A more sophisticated implementation may
cache this data, e.g. for later reuse in calls to `lstat()`.

Make the `dirent` implementation pluggable so that it can be switched at
runtime, e.g. based on a config option.

Define a base DIR structure with pointers to `readdir()`/`closedir()`
that match the `opendir()` implementation (similar to vtable pointers in
Object-Oriented Programming). Define `readdir()`/`closedir()` so that
they call the function pointers in the `DIR` structure. This allows to
choose the `opendir()` implementation on a call-by-call basis.

Make the fixed-size `dirent.d_name` buffer a flex array, as `d_name` may
be implementation specific (e.g. a caching implementation may allocate a
`struct dirent` with _just_ the size needed to hold the `d_name` in
question).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Karsten Blees
931bb3724c Win32: dirent.c: Move opendir down
Move opendir down in preparation for the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Karsten Blees
8e7e9b38e1 Win32: make FILETIME conversion functions public
We will use them in the upcoming "FSCache" patches (to accelerate
sequential lstat() calls).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
31f509b3b4 Merge pull request #1170 from dscho/mingw-kill-process
Handle Ctrl+C in Git Bash nicely

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
73efb57bd8 Merge branch 'wsl-file-mode-bits'
This patch introduces support to set special NTFS attributes that are
interpreted by the Windows Subsystem for Linux as file mode bits, UID
and GID.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
0636051504 Merge branch 'dont-clean-junctions'
This topic branch teaches `git clean` to respect NTFS junctions and Unix
bind mounts: it will now stop at those boundaries.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
ebc44f5af6 Merge pull request #1897 from piscisaureus/symlink-attr
Specify symlink type in .gitattributes
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
4c0cde855c mingw: try resetting the read-only bit if rename fails (#4527)
With this patch, Git for Windows works as intended on mounted APFS
volumes (where renaming read-only files would fail).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
3d97f28978 Merge 'docker-volumes-are-no-symlinks'
This was pull request #1645 from ZCube/master

Support windows container.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
3f0b8c3805 Merge branch 'msys2' 2026-06-12 15:11:37 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
008e0e3b20 credential-cache: handle ECONNREFUSED gracefully (#5329)
I should probably add some tests for this.
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
58e14fcb94 Merge branch 'run-command-be-helpful-when-Git-LFS-fails-on-Windows-7'
Since Git LFS v3.5.x implicitly dropped Windows 7 support, we now want
users to be advised _what_ is going wrong on that Windows version. This
topic branch goes out of its way to provide users with such guidance.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
62f8e8f3f7 Merge branch 'Fix-i686-build-with-GCC-v14'
This fixes a long-time compile warning turned error by GCC v14.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
3417dce9b6 win32: use native ANSI sequence processing, if possible (#4700)
Windows 10 version 1511 (also known as Anniversary Update), according to
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences
introduced native support for ANSI sequence processing. This allows
using colors from the entire 24-bit color range.

All we need to do is test whether the console's "virtual processing
support" can be enabled. If it can, we do not even need to start the
`console_thread` to handle ANSI sequences.

Incidentally, this addresses
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3712.
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
3af711a525 Additional error checks for issuing the windows.appendAtomically warning (#4528)
Another (hopefully clean) PR for showing the error warning about atomic
append on windows after failure on APFS, which returns EBADF not EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: David Lomas <dl3@pale-eds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
c66ae6374b Lazy load libcurl, allowing for an SSL/TLS backend-specific libcurl (#4410)
As per
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4350#issuecomment-1485041503,
the major block for upgrading Git for Windows' OpenSSL from v1.1 to v3
is the tricky part where such an upgrade would break `git fetch`/`git
clone` and `git push` because the libcurl depends on the OpenSSL DLL,
and the major version bump will _change_ the file name of said DLL.

To overcome that, the plan is to build libcurl flavors for each
supported SSL/TLS backend, aligning with the way MSYS2 builds libcurl,
then switch Git for Windows' SDK to the Secure Channel-flavored libcurl,
and teach Git to look for the specific flavor of libcurl corresponding
to the `http.sslBackend` setting (if that was configured).

Here is the PR to teach Git that trick.
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
0193b29743 Merge pull request #2974 from derrickstolee/maintenance-and-headless
Include Windows-specific maintenance and headless-git
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
e3abe2d40a Merge pull request #2506 from dscho/issue-2283
Allow running Git directly from `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe`
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
ee4c7cdc08 Merge branch 'fsync-object-files-always'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
5588348cce Merge branch 'optionally-dont-append-atomically-on-windows'
Fix append failure issue under remote directories #2753

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
67d0464a30 Merge pull request #3875 from 1480c1/wine/detect_msys_tty
winansi: check result before using Name for pty
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
1b5a7bb1cf Merge pull request #3751 from rkitover/native-term
mingw: set $env:TERM=xterm-256color for newer OSes
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Derrick Stolee
bf56824349 Merge pull request #3791: Various fixes around safe.directory
The first three commits are rebased versions of those in gitgitgadget/git#1215. These allow the following:

1. Fix `git config --global foo.bar <path>` from allowing the `<path>`. As a bonus, users with a config value starting with `/` will not get a warning about "old-style" paths needing a "`%(prefix)/`".

2. When in WSL, the path starts with `/` so it needs to be interpolated properly. Update the warning to include `%(prefix)/` to get the right value for WSL users. (This is specifically for using Git for Windows from Git Bash, but in a WSL directory.)

3. When using WSL, the ownership check fails and reports an error message. This is noisy, and happens even if the user has marked the path with `safe.directory`. Remove that error message.
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
2dbf7b02e1 Merge pull request #3220 from dscho/there-is-no-vs/master-anymore
Let the documentation reflect that there is no vs/master anymore
2026-06-12 15:11:36 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
7e38194ae8 mingw: really handle SIGINT
Previously, we did not install any handler for Ctrl+C, but now we really
want to because the MSYS2 runtime learned the trick to call the
ConsoleCtrlHandler when Ctrl+C was pressed.

With this, hitting Ctrl+C while `git log` is running will only terminate
the Git process, but not the pager. This finally matches the behavior on
Linux and on macOS.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
xungeng li
c8fedffe98 mingw: optionally enable wsl compability file mode bits
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) version 2 allows to use `chmod` on
NTFS volumes provided that they are mounted with metadata enabled (see
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/chmod-chown-wsl-improvements/
for details), for example:

	$ chmod 0755 /mnt/d/test/a.sh

In order to facilitate better collaboration between the Windows
version of Git and the WSL version of Git, we can make the Windows
version of Git also support reading and writing NTFS file modes
in a manner compatible with WSL.

Since this slightly slows down operations where lots of files are
created (such as an initial checkout), this feature is only enabled when
`core.WSLCompat` is set to true. Note that you also have to set
`core.fileMode=true` in repositories that have been initialized without
enabling WSL compatibility.

There are several ways to enable metadata loading for NTFS volumes
in WSL, one of which is to modify `/etc/wsl.conf` by adding:

```
[automount]
enabled = true
options = "metadata,umask=027,fmask=117"
```

And reboot WSL.

It can also be enabled temporarily by this incantation:

	$ sudo umount /mnt/c &&
	  sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=22,fmask=111

It's important to note that this modification is compatible with, but
does not depend on WSL. The helper functions in this commit can operate
independently and functions normally on devices where WSL is not
installed or properly configured.

Signed-off-by: xungeng li <xungeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
860a10a56c clean: remove mount points when possible
Windows' equivalent to "bind mounts", NTFS junction points, can be
unlinked without affecting the mount target. This is clearly what users
expect to happen when they call `git clean -dfx` in a worktree that
contains NTFS junction points: the junction should be removed, and the
target directory of said junction should be left alone (unless it is
inside the worktree).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
David Lomas
ab310c3e52 mingw: work around rename() failing on a read-only file
At least on _some_ APFS network shares, Git fails to rename the object
files because they are marked as read-only, because that has the effect
of setting the uchg flag on APFS, which then means the file can't be
renamed or deleted.

To work around that, when a rename failed, and the read-only flag is
set, try to turn it off and on again.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4482

Signed-off-by: David Lomas <dl3@pale-eds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
15e1f0dc45 mingw: Windows Docker volumes are *not* symbolic links
... even if they may look like them.

As looking up the target of the "symbolic link" (just to see whether it
starts with `/ContainerMappedDirectories/`) is pretty expensive, we
do it when we can be *really* sure that there is a possibility that this
might be the case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
db33a7a342 mingw (git_terminal_prompt): do fall back to CONIN$/CONOUT$ method
To support Git Bash running in a MinTTY, we use a dirty trick to access
the MSYS2 pseudo terminal: we execute a Bash snippet that accesses
/dev/tty.

The idea was to fall back to writing to/reading from CONOUT$/CONIN$ if
that Bash call failed because Bash was not found.

However, we should fall back even in other error conditions, because we
have not successfully read the user input. Let's make it so.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
5abdc23eaf Merge pull request #3165 from dscho/increase-allowed-length-of-interpreter-path
mingw: allow for longer paths in `parse_interpreter()`
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
4454c70d42 mingw: kill child processes in a gentler way
The TerminateProcess() function does not actually leave the child
processes any chance to perform any cleanup operations. This is bad
insofar as Git itself expects its signal handlers to run.

A symptom is e.g. a left-behind .lock file that would not be left behind
if the same operation was run, say, on Linux.

To remedy this situation, we use an obscure trick: we inject a thread
into the process that needs to be killed and to let that thread run the
ExitProcess() function with the desired exit status. Thanks J Wyman for
describing this trick.

The advantage is that the ExitProcess() function lets the atexit
handlers run. While this is still different from what Git expects (i.e.
running a signal handler), in practice Git sets up signal handlers and
atexit handlers that call the same code to clean up after itself.

In case that the gentle method to terminate the process failed, we still
fall back to calling TerminateProcess(), but in that case we now also
make sure that processes spawned by the spawned process are terminated;
TerminateProcess() does not give the spawned process a chance to do so
itself.

Please note that this change only affects how Git for Windows tries to
terminate processes spawned by Git's own executables. Third-party
software that *calls* Git and wants to terminate it *still* need to make
sure to imitate this gentle method, otherwise this patch will not have
any effect.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
fcf69e7f5e clean: do not traverse mount points
It seems to be not exactly rare on Windows to install NTFS junction
points (the equivalent of "bind mounts" on Linux/Unix) in worktrees,
e.g. to map some development tools into a subdirectory.

In such a scenario, it is pretty horrible if `git clean -dfx` traverses
into the mapped directory and starts to "clean up".

Let's just not do that. Let's make sure before we traverse into a
directory that it is not a mount point (or junction).

This addresses https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/607

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Bert Belder
2eb1f7a8d2 mingw: allow to specify the symlink type in .gitattributes
On Windows, symbolic links have a type: a "file symlink" must point at
a file, and a "directory symlink" must point at a directory. If the
type of symlink does not match its target, it doesn't work.

Git does not record the type of symlink in the index or in a tree. On
checkout it'll guess the type, which only works if the target exists
at the time the symlink is created. This may often not be the case,
for example when the link points at a directory inside a submodule.

By specifying `symlink=file` or `symlink=dir` the user can specify what
type of symlink Git should create, so Git doesn't have to rely on
unreliable heuristics.

Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
JiSeop Moon
3862b2e8f8 mingw: move the file_attr_to_st_mode() function definition
In preparation for making this function a bit more complicated (to allow
for special-casing the `ContainerMappedDirectories` in Windows
containers, which look like a symbolic link, but are not), let's move it
out of the header.

Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Karsten Blees
9acf59c3c6 compat/terminal.c: only use the Windows console if bash 'read -r' fails
Accessing the Windows console through the special CONIN$ / CONOUT$ devices
doesn't work properly for non-ASCII usernames an passwords.

It also doesn't work for terminal emulators that hide the native console
window (such as mintty), and 'TERM=xterm*' is not necessarily a reliable
indicator for such terminals.

The new shell_prompt() function, on the other hand, works fine for both
MSys1 and MSys2, in native console windows as well as mintty, and properly
supports Unicode. It just needs bash on the path (for 'read -s', which is
bash-specific).

On Windows, try to use the shell to read from the terminal. If that fails
with ENOENT (i.e. bash was not found), use CONIN/OUT as fallback.

Note: To test this, create a UTF-8 credential file with non-ASCII chars,
e.g. in git-bash: 'echo url=http://täst.com > cred.txt'. Then in git-cmd,
'git credential fill <cred.txt' works (shell version), while calling git
without the git-wrapper (i.e. 'mingw64\bin\git credential fill <cred.txt')
mangles non-ASCII chars in both console output and input.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
5a2022242e Introduce helper to create symlinks that knows about index_state
On Windows, symbolic links actually have a type depending on the target:
it can be a file or a directory.

In certain circumstances, this poses problems, e.g. when a symbolic link
is supposed to point into a submodule that is not checked out, so there
is no way for Git to auto-detect the type.

To help with that, we will add support over the course of the next
commits to specify that symlink type via the Git attributes. This
requires an index_state, though, something that Git for Windows'
`symlink()` replacement cannot know about because the function signature
is defined by the POSIX standard and not ours to change.

So let's introduce a helper function to create symbolic links that
*does* know about the index_state.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
JiSeop Moon
ecdfc32ee6 mingw: when running in a Windows container, try to rename() harder
It is a known issue that a rename() can fail with an "Access denied"
error at times, when copying followed by deleting the original file
works. Let's just fall back to that behavior.

Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Karsten Blees
95feb0a01a mingw: Support git_terminal_prompt with more terminals
The `git_terminal_prompt()` function expects the terminal window to be
attached to a Win32 Console. However, this is not the case with terminal
windows other than `cmd.exe`'s, e.g. with MSys2's own `mintty`.

Non-cmd terminals such as `mintty` still have to have a Win32 Console
to be proper console programs, but have to hide the Win32 Console to
be able to provide more flexibility (such as being resizeable not only
vertically but also horizontally). By writing to that Win32 Console,
`git_terminal_prompt()` manages only to send the prompt to nowhere and
to wait for input from a Console to which the user has no access.

This commit introduces a function specifically to support `mintty` -- or
other terminals that are compatible with MSys2's `/dev/tty` emulation. We
use the `TERM` environment variable as an indicator for that: if the value
starts with "xterm" (such as `mintty`'s "xterm_256color"), we prefer to
let `xterm_prompt()` handle the user interaction.

The most prominent user of `git_terminal_prompt()` is certainly
`git-remote-https.exe`. It is an interesting use case because both
`stdin` and `stdout` are redirected when Git calls said executable, yet
it still wants to access the terminal.

When running inside a `mintty`, the terminal is not accessible to the
`git-remote-https.exe` program, though, because it is a MinGW program
and the `mintty` terminal is not backed by a Win32 console.

To solve that problem, we simply call out to the shell -- which is an
*MSys2* program and can therefore access `/dev/tty`.

Helped-by: nalla <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
b068961b1f Merge pull request #2915 from dennisameling/windows-arm64-support
Windows arm64 support
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
Bert Belder
1512b7197c Win32: symlink: move phantom symlink creation to a separate function
Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00
JiSeop Moon
e349c0c5a6 mingw: introduce code to detect whether we're inside a Windows container
This will come in handy in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-12 15:11:35 +00:00