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Johannes Schindelin
21e896a152 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>
2026-04-14 19:33:26 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
05d4ce7d62 Merge branch 'nano-server'
This patch adds a GitHub workflow (to be triggered manually) to allow
for conveniently verifying that Git and Scalar still work as intended in
Windows Nano Server (a relatively small container base image that is
frequently used where a "small Windows" is needed, e.g. in automation
;-))

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:26 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
9eb27ed90f 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.
2026-04-14 19:33:26 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
de9c56b2f1 ARM64: Embed manifest properly (#4718)
Teach our ARM64 based builds to embed the manifest file correctly.

This fixes #4707
2026-04-14 19:33:26 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
1462d1f050 Merge pull request #2974 from derrickstolee/maintenance-and-headless
Include Windows-specific maintenance and headless-git
2026-04-14 19:33:26 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
383676a078 Merge pull request #2506 from dscho/issue-2283
Allow running Git directly from `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe`
2026-04-14 19:33:26 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
3e63def802 Add full mingw-w64-git (i.e. regular MSYS2 ecosystem) support (#5971)
Every once in a while, there are bug reports in Git for Windows' bug
tracker that describe an issue running [inside MSYS2
proper](https://gitforwindows.org/install-inside-msys2-proper), totally
ignoring the big, honking warning on top of [the
page](https://gitforwindows.org/install-inside-msys2-proper) that spells
out clearly that this is an unsupported use case.

At the same time, we cannot easily deflect and say "just use MSYS2
directly" (and leave the "and stop pestering us" out). We cannot do that
because there is only an _MSYS_ `git` package in MSYS2 (i.e. a Git that
uses the quite slow POSIX emulation layer provided by the MSYS2
runtime), but no `mingw-w64-git` package (which would be equivalent in
speed to Git for Windows).

In https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/26470, I am preparing to
change that. As part of that PR, I noticed and fixed a couple of issues
_in `git-for-windows/git` that prevented full support for
`mingw-w64-git` in MSYS2, such as problems with CLANG64 and UCRT64.

While at it, I simplified the entire setup to trust MSYS2's
`MINGW_PREFIX` & related environment variables instead of hard-coding
values like the installation prefix and what `MSYSTEM` to fall back on
if it is unset.
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
7837c7e7b3 Skip linking the "dashed" git-<command>s for built-ins (#4252)
It is merely a historical wart that, say, `git-commit` exists in the
`libexec/git-core/` directory, a tribute to the original idea to let Git
be essentially a bunch of Unix shell scripts revolving around very few
"plumbing" (AKA low-level) commands.

Git has evolved a lot from there. These days, most of Git's
functionality is contained within the `git` executable, in the form of
"built-in" commands.

To accommodate for scripts that use the "dashed" form of Git commands,
even today, Git provides hard-links that make the `git` executable
available as, say, `git-commit`, just in case that an old script has not
been updated to invoke `git commit`.

Those hard-links do not come cheap: they take about half a minute for
every build of Git on Windows, they are mistaken for taking up huge
amounts of space by some Windows Explorer versions that do not
understand hard-links, and therefore many a "bug" report had to be
addressed.

The "dashed form" has been officially deprecated in Git version 1.5.4,
which was released on February 2nd, 2008, i.e. a very long time ago.
This deprecation was never finalized by skipping these hard-links, but
we can start the process now, in Git for Windows.

This addresses the concern raised in
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/4185#discussion_r1051661894
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
aac70fb2e6 Fix global repository field not being cleared (#4083)
It is checked for w.r.t. global repository struct down in the callstack
in compatibility layer for MinGW before being assigned in the function
that `free()`'d it.
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
c24a7d7372 Fix Windows version resources (#4092)
Add `FileVersion`, which is a required string ([Microsoft
documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/versioninfo-resource))
in the `StringFileInfo` block.
As not all required strings were present in the block, none were being
included.
Fixes #4090

After including the `FileVersion` string, all other defined strings are
now being included on executables.

File version information for `git.exe` has changed from:
```
PS C:\Program Files\Git\bin> [System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo("C:\Data\git-sdk-64\usr\src\git\git.exe") | Select-Object *

FileVersionRaw     : 2.38.1.1
ProductVersionRaw  : 2.38.1.1
Comments           :
CompanyName        :
FileBuildPart      : 1
FileDescription    :
FileMajorPart      : 2
FileMinorPart      : 38
FileName           : C:\Data\git-sdk-64\usr\src\git\git.exe
FilePrivatePart    : 1
FileVersion        :
InternalName       :
IsDebug            : False
IsPatched          : False
IsPrivateBuild     : False
IsPreRelease       : False
IsSpecialBuild     : False
Language           : English (United States)
LegalCopyright     :
LegalTrademarks    :
OriginalFilename   :
PrivateBuild       :
ProductBuildPart   : 1
ProductMajorPart   : 2
ProductMinorPart   : 38
ProductName        :
ProductPrivatePart : 1
ProductVersion     :
SpecialBuild       :
```

To the following:
```
PS C:\Program Files\Git\bin> [System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo("C:\Data\git-sdk-64\usr\src\git\git.exe") | Select-Object *

FileVersionRaw     : 2.38.1.1
ProductVersionRaw  : 2.38.1.1
Comments           :
CompanyName        : The Git Development Community
FileBuildPart      : 1
FileDescription    : Git for Windows
FileMajorPart      : 2
FileMinorPart      : 38
FileName           : C:\Data\git-sdk-64\usr\src\git\git.exe
FilePrivatePart    : 1
FileVersion        : 2.38.1.windows.1.10.g6ed65a6fab
InternalName       : git
IsDebug            : False
IsPatched          : False
IsPrivateBuild     : False
IsPreRelease       : False
IsSpecialBuild     : False
Language           : English (United States)
LegalCopyright     :
LegalTrademarks    :
OriginalFilename   : git.exe
PrivateBuild       :
ProductBuildPart   : 1
ProductMajorPart   : 2
ProductMinorPart   : 38
ProductName        : Git
ProductPrivatePart : 1
ProductVersion     : 2.38.1.windows.1.10.g6ed65a6fab
SpecialBuild       :
```

I wasn't really expecting `GIT_VERSION` to contain the Git commit, I was
hoping for just `2.38.1` or `2.38.1.1`, at least for the `FileVersion`
string.

Anybody know if it's possible to concatenate the `MAJOR`, `MINOR`,
`MICRO`, and `PATCHLEVEL` fields with dots, or if there's another
variable that can be used (with or without `PATCHLEVEL`)?
Alternatively, use the complete `GIT_VERSION` for both `FileVersion` and
`ProductVersion`.
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
8039d9ee74 Merge pull request #3942 from rimrul/mingw-tsaware
MinGW: link as terminal server aware
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
5ba557f4f6 Merge branch 'fsync-object-files-always'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
169906cd1a 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>
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
a2e06994f5 Merge pull request #3875 from 1480c1/wine/detect_msys_tty
winansi: check result before using Name for pty
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
f3ec8fd61e Merge pull request #3751 from rkitover/native-term
mingw: set $env:TERM=xterm-256color for newer OSes
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Derrick Stolee
8b7915c35c 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.
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
3ccdd99553 Merge pull request #3533 from PhilipOakley/hashliteral_t
Begin `unsigned long`->`size_t` conversion to support large files on Windows
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
4114c257cd Merge pull request #3306 from PhilipOakley/vs-sln
Make Git for Windows start builds in modern Visual Studio
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
f74fd52c88 Merge pull request #3349 from vdye/feature/ci-subtree-tests
Add `contrib/subtree` test execution to CI builds
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
4770cf15f7 Merge pull request #3293 from pascalmuller/http-support-automatically-sending-client-certificate
http: Add support for enabling automatic sending of SSL client certificate
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
d279ca0172 Merge pull request #3220 from dscho/there-is-no-vs/master-anymore
Let the documentation reflect that there is no vs/master anymore
2026-04-14 19:33:25 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
8331b78918 Merge pull request #3165 from dscho/increase-allowed-length-of-interpreter-path
mingw: allow for longer paths in `parse_interpreter()`
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
fd201a424f Merge pull request #3327 from dennisameling/fix-host-cpu
cmake(): allow setting HOST_CPU for cross-compilation
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
92fa39bb21 Merge pull request #2915 from dennisameling/windows-arm64-support
Windows arm64 support
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
489f33bb3d Merge pull request #2351 from PhilipOakley/vcpkg-tip
Vcpkg Install: detect lack of working Git, and note possible vcpkg time outs
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
d734dd790b Merge 'git-gui/js/intent-to-add'
This merges the current version of the patch that tries to address Git
GUI's problems with intent-to-add files.

This patch will likely be improved substantially before it is merged
into Git GUI's main branch, but we want to have _something_ resembling a
fix already in Git for Windows v2.29.0.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
6e991b5dfa Merge pull request #2655 from jglathe/jg/t0014_trace_extra_info
t/t0014: fix: eliminate additional lines from trace
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
cb807233eb Merge pull request #2714 from lbonanomi/crlf-scissors
Rationalize line endings for scissors-cleanup
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
01e8e052a4 Merge 'add-p-many-files'
This topic branch allows `add -p` and `add -i` with a large number of
files. It is kind of a hack that was never really meant to be
upstreamed. Let's see if we can do better in the built-in `add -p`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
32b8bd3a69 Merge pull request #2618 from dscho/avoid-d/f-conflict-in-vs/master
ci: avoid d/f conflict in vs/master
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
a2391c946f Merge pull request #2535 from dscho/schannel-revoke-best-effort
Introduce and use the new "best effort" strategy for Secure Channel revoke checking
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
bc534d1880 Merge pull request #2504 from dscho/access-repo-via-junction
Handle `git add <file>` where <file> traverses an NTFS junction
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
e210a24f6d Merge pull request #2501 from jeffhostetler/clink-debug-curl
clink.pl: fix MSVC compile script to handle libcurl-d.lib
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
1c48feed48 Merge pull request #2488 from bmueller84/master
mingw: fix fatal error working on mapped network drives on Windows
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
f05c8d17ae Merge pull request #2375 from assarbad/reintroduce-sideband-config
Config option to disable side-band-64k for transport
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
df349223dc Update mimalloc to v2.2.7 (#6048)
After releasing v2.2.6, they followed up really quickly with a v2.2.7,
which indicates some urgency in taking this update. The diff of this PR
is pretty informative, too.

This closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/6046
2026-04-14 19:33:24 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
5bc84862fc Merge branch 'msys2-python'
In MSYS2, we have two Python interpreters at our disposal, so we can
include the Python stuff in the build.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:23 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
1125469330 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>
2026-04-14 19:33:23 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
52f62ecc01 Merge branch 'drive-prefix'
This topic branch allows us to specify absolute paths without the drive
prefix e.g. when cloning.

Example:

	C:\Users\me> git clone https://github.com/git/git \upstream-git

This will clone into a new directory C:\upstream-git, in line with how
Windows interprets absolute paths.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:23 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
69eda5e4f4 Merge 'remote-hg-prerequisites' into HEAD
These fixes were necessary for Sverre Rabbelier's remote-hg to work,
but for some magic reason they are not necessary for the current
remote-hg. Makes you wonder how that one gets away with it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:23 +02:00
David Lomas
e2bff58918 mingw: suggest windows.appendAtomically in more cases
When running Git for Windows on a remote APFS filesystem, it would
appear that the `mingw_open_append()`/`write()` combination would fail
almost exactly like on some CIFS-mounted shares as had been reported in
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2753, albeit with a
different `errno` value.

Let's handle that `errno` value just the same, by suggesting to set
`windows.appendAtomically=false`.

Signed-off-by: David Lomas <dl3@pale-eds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
4ed3aa1d76 Add a GitHub workflow to verify that Git/Scalar work in Nano Server
In Git for Windows v2.39.0, we fixed a regression where `git.exe` would
no longer work in Windows Nano Server (frequently used in Docker
containers).

This GitHub workflow can be used to verify manually that the Git/Scalar
executables work in Nano Server.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
3e8a426f61 mingw: do load libcurl dynamically by default
This will help with Git for Windows' maintenance going forward: It
allows Git for Windows to switch its primary libcurl to a variant
without the OpenSSL backend, while still loading an alternate when
setting `http.sslBackend = openssl`.

This is necessary to avoid maintenance headaches with upgrading OpenSSL:
its major version name is encoded in the shared library's file name and
hence major version updates (temporarily) break libraries that are
linked against the OpenSSL library.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:20 +02:00
Matthias Aßhauer
123a985abb git.rc: include winuser.h
winuser.h contains the definition of RT_MANIFEST that our LLVM based
toolchain needs to understand that we want to embed
compat/win32/git.manifest as an application manifest. It currently just
embeds it as additional data that Windows doesn't understand.

This also helps our GCC based toolchain understand that we only want one
copy embedded. It currently embeds one working assembly manifest and one
nearly identical, but useless copy as additional data.

This also teaches our Visual Studio based buildsystems to pick up the
manifest file from git.rc. This means we don't have to explicitly specify
it in contrib/buildsystems/Generators/Vcxproj.pm anymore. Slightly
counter-intuitively this also means we have to explicitly tell Cmake
not to embed a default manifest.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4707

Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:20 +02:00
Yuyi Wang
6895b1b609 cmake: install headless-git.
headless-git is a git executable without opening a console window. It is
useful when other GUI executables want to call git. We should install it
together with git on Windows.

Signed-off-by: Yuyi Wang <Strawberry_Str@hotmail.com>
2026-04-14 19:33:20 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
61c981788a mingw: ignore HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH if it points to Windows' system directory
Internally, Git expects the environment variable `HOME` to be set, and
to point to the current user's home directory.

This environment variable is not set by default on Windows, and
therefore Git tries its best to construct one if it finds `HOME` unset.

There are actually two different approaches Git tries: first, it looks
at `HOMEDRIVE`/`HOMEPATH` because this is widely used in corporate
environments with roaming profiles, and a user generally wants their
global Git settings to be in a roaming profile.

Only when `HOMEDRIVE`/`HOMEPATH` is either unset or does not point to a
valid location, Git will fall back to using `USERPROFILE` instead.

However, starting with Windows Vista, for secondary logons and services,
the environment variables `HOMEDRIVE`/`HOMEPATH` point to Windows'
system directory (usually `C:\Windows\system32`).

That is undesirable, and that location is usually write-protected anyway.

So let's verify that the `HOMEDRIVE`/`HOMEPATH` combo does not point to
Windows' system directory before using it, falling back to `USERPROFILE`
if it does.

This fixes git-for-windows#2709

Initial-Path-by: Ivan Pozdeev <vano@mail.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:20 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
5895aa1d03 http: when loading libcurl lazily, allow for multiple SSL backends
The previous commits introduced a compile-time option to load libcurl
lazily, but it uses the hard-coded name "libcurl-4.dll" (or equivalent
on platforms other than Windows).

To allow for installing multiple libcurl flavors side by side, where
each supports one specific SSL/TLS backend, let's first look whether
`libcurl-<backend>-4.dll` exists, and only use `libcurl-4.dll` as a fall
back.

That will allow us to ship with a libcurl by default that only supports
the Secure Channel backend for the `https://` protocol. This libcurl
won't suffer from any dependency problem when upgrading OpenSSL to a new
major version (which will change the DLL name, and hence break every
program and library that depends on it).

This is crucial because Git for Windows relies on libcurl to keep
working when building and deploying a new OpenSSL package because that
library is used by `git fetch` and `git clone`.

Note that this feature is by no means specific to Windows. On Ubuntu,
for example, a `git` built using `LAZY_LOAD_LIBCURL` will use
`libcurl.so.4` for `http.sslbackend=openssl` and `libcurl-gnutls.so.4`
for `http.sslbackend=gnutls`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:20 +02:00
Jeff Hostetler
8a470272eb clink.pl: move default linker options for MSVC=1 builds
Move the default `-ENTRY` and `-SUBSYSTEM` arguments for
MSVC=1 builds from `config.mak.uname` into `clink.pl`.
These args are constant for console-mode executables.

Add support to `clink.pl` for generating a Win32 GUI application
using the `-mwindows` argument (to match how GCC does it).  This
changes the `-ENTRY` and `-SUBSYSTEM` arguments accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
2026-04-14 19:33:20 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
d4ce1cab78 mingw: allow git.exe to be used instead of the "Git wrapper"
Git for Windows wants to add `git.exe` to the users' `PATH`, without
cluttering the latter with unnecessary executables such as `wish.exe`.
To that end, it invented the concept of its "Git wrapper", i.e. a tiny
executable located in `C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe` (originally a
CMD script) whose sole purpose is to set up a couple of environment
variables and then spawn the _actual_ `git.exe` (which nowadays lives in
`C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe` for 64-bit, and the obvious
equivalent for 32-bit installations).

Currently, the following environment variables are set unless already
initialized:

- `MSYSTEM`, to make sure that the MSYS2 Bash and the MSYS2 Perl
  interpreter behave as expected, and

- `PLINK_PROTOCOL`, to force PuTTY's `plink.exe` to use the SSH
  protocol instead of Telnet,

- `PATH`, to make sure that the `bin` folder in the user's home
  directory, as well as the `/mingw64/bin` and the `/usr/bin`
  directories are included. The trick here is that the `/mingw64/bin/`
  and `/usr/bin/` directories are relative to the top-level installation
  directory of Git for Windows (which the included Bash interprets as
  `/`, i.e. as the MSYS pseudo root directory).

Using the absence of `MSYSTEM` as a tell-tale, we can detect in
`git.exe` whether these environment variables have been initialized
properly. Therefore we can call `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git`
in-place after this change, without having to call Git through the Git
wrapper.

Obviously, above-mentioned directories must be _prepended_ to the `PATH`
variable, otherwise we risk picking up executables from unrelated Git
installations. We do that by constructing the new `PATH` value from
scratch, appending `$HOME/bin` (if `HOME` is set), then the MSYS2 system
directories, and then appending the original `PATH`.

Side note: this modification of the `PATH` variable is independent of
the modification necessary to reach the executables and scripts in
`/mingw64/libexec/git-core/`, i.e. the `GIT_EXEC_PATH`. That
modification is still performed by Git, elsewhere, long after making the
changes described above.

While we _still_ cannot simply hard-link `mingw64\bin\git.exe` to `cmd`
(because the former depends on a couple of `.dll` files that are only in
`mingw64\bin`, i.e. calling `...\cmd\git.exe` would fail to load due to
missing dependencies), at least we can now avoid that extra process of
running the Git wrapper (which then has to wait for the spawned
`git.exe` to finish) by calling `...\mingw64\bin\git.exe` directly, via
its absolute path.

Testing this is in Git's test suite tricky: we set up a "new" MSYS
pseudo-root and copy the `git.exe` file into the appropriate location,
then verify that `MSYSTEM` is set properly, and also that the `PATH` is
modified so that scripts can be found in `$HOME/bin`, `/mingw64/bin/`
and `/usr/bin/`.

This addresses https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2283

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:20 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
88b02e6052 http: support lazy-loading libcurl also on Windows
This implements the Windows-specific support code, because everything is
slightly different on Windows, even loading shared libraries.

Note: I specifically do _not_ use the code from
`compat/win32/lazyload.h` here because that code is optimized for
loading individual functions from various system DLLs, while we
specifically want to load _many_ functions from _one_ DLL here, and
distinctly not a system DLL (we expect libcurl to be located outside
`C:\Windows\system32`, something `INIT_PROC_ADDR` refuses to work with).
Also, the `curl_easy_getinfo()`/`curl_easy_setopt()` functions are
declared as vararg functions, which `lazyload.h` cannot handle. Finally,
we are about to optionally override the exact file name that is to be
loaded, which is a goal contrary to `lazyload.h`'s design.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-14 19:33:20 +02:00