Getting started contributing to Git can be difficult on a Windows
machine. CONTRIBUTING.md contains a guide to getting started, including
detailed steps for setting up build tools, running tests, and
submitting patches to upstream.
[includes an example by Pratik Karki how to submit v2, v3, v4, etc.]
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
It is better to state clearly expectations and intentions than to assume
quietly that everybody agrees.
This Code of Conduct is the Open Code of Conduct as per
http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/ (the only modifications are the
adjustments to reflect that there is no "response team" in addition to the
Git for Windows maintainer, and the addition of the link to the Open Code
of Conduct itself).
[Completely revamped, based on the Covenant 1.4 by Brendan Forster]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This branch allows third-party tools to call `git status
--no-lock-index` to avoid lock contention with the interactive Git usage
of the actual human user.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To avoid having to play tricks as in earlier rounds, we bit the sour
apple and rebased the `builtin-stash-rebase-v3` branch thicket onto the
commit starting Git for Windows' merging-rebase.
(The merging-rebase pulls in the previous branch thicket via a "fake
merge", i.e. a merge commit that does not actually apply any changes
from the merged commit history. This has the unfortunate side effect of
confusing `merge` into thinking that any branch that was merged into an
earlier round does not need to be merged again.)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The kwset functionality makes use of the obstack code, which expects to
be handed a function that can allocate large chunks of data. It expects
that function to accept a `size` parameter of type `long`.
This upsets GCC 8 on Windows, because `long` does not have the same
bit size as `size_t` there.
Now, the proper thing to do would be to switch to `size_t`. But this
would make us deviate from the "upstream" code even further, making it
hard to synchronize with newer versions, and also it would be quite
involved because that `long` type is so invasive in that code.
Let's punt, and instead provide a super small wrapper around
`xmalloc()`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This fixes the issue identified in
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1498
where Git would not fall back to reading credentials from a Win32
Console when the credentials could not be read from the terminal via the
Bash hack (that is necessary to support running in a MinTTY).
Tested in a Powershell window.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The return type of the `GetProcAddress()` function is `FARPROC` which
evaluates to `long long int (*)()`, i.e. it cannot be cast to the
correct function signature by GCC 8.
To work around that, we first cast to `void *` and go on with our merry
lives.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This brings substantial wins in performance because the FSCache is now
per-thread, being merged to the primary thread only at the end, so we do
not have to lock (except while merging).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows supports the core.longPaths config setting to allow
writing/reading long paths via the \\?\ trick for a long time now.
However, for that support to work, it is absolutely necessary that
git_default_config() is given a chance to parse the config. Otherwise
Git will be non the wiser.
So let's make sure that as many commands that previously failed to
parse the core.* settings now do that, implicitly enabling long path
support in a lot more places.
Note: this is not a perfect solution, and it cannot be, as there is
a chicken-and-egg problem in reading the config itself...
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1218
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
These are Git for Windows' Git GUI and gitk patches. We will have to
decide at some point what to do about them, but that's a little lower
priority (as Git GUI seems to be unmaintained for the time being, and
the gitk maintainer keeps a very low profile on the Git mailing list,
too).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is the branch thicket of patches in Git for Windows that are
considered ready for upstream. To keep them in a ready-to-submit shape,
they are kept as close to the beginning of the branch thicket as
possible.
This branch adds back the scripted versions, then adds the option to
use the builtin versions of `stash` and `rebase` by setting
`stash.useBuiltin=true` and `rebase.useBuiltin=true`, respectively,
(the latter already worked for the top-level `git rebase` command and
the `--am` backend, and now it also works for the interactive backend).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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>
We recently converted both the `git rebase` and the `git rebase -i`
command from Unix shell scripts to builtins.
The former has a safety valve allowing to fall back to the scripted
`rebase`, just in case that there is a bug in the builtin `rebase`:
setting the config variable `rebase.useBuiltin` to `false` will
fall back to using the scripted version.
The latter did not have such a safety hatch.
Let's reinstate the scripted interactive rebase backend so that
`rebase.useBuiltin=false` will not use the builtin interactive rebase,
just in case that an end user runs into a bug with the builtin version
and needs to get out of the fix really quickly.
This is necessary because Git for Windows wants to ship the builtin
rebase/interactive rebase earlier than core Git: Git for Windows
v2.19.0 will come with the option of a drastically faster (if a lot
less battle-tested) `git rebase`/`git rebase -i`.
As the file name `git-rebase--interactive` is already in use, let's
rename the scripted backend to `git-legacy-rebase--interactive`.
A couple of additional touch-ups are needed (such as teaching the
builtin `rebase--interactive`, which assumed the role of the
`rebase--helper`, to perform the two tricks to skip the unnecessary
picks and to generate a new todo list) to make things work again.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
This simply copies the version as of v2.19.0-rc0 verbatim. As of now,
it is not hooked up (because it needs a couple more changes to work);
The next commit will use the scripted interactive rebase backend from
`git rebase` again when `rebase.useBuiltin=false`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Using FindFirstFileExW() requires the OS to allocate a 64K buffer for each
directory and then free it when we call FindClose(). Update fscache to call
the underlying kernel API NtQueryDirectoryFile so that we can do the buffer
management ourselves. That allows us to allocate a single buffer for the
lifetime of the cache and reuse it for each directory.
This change improves performance of 'git status' by 18% in a repo with ~200K
files and 30k folders.
Documentation for NtQueryDirectoryFile can be found at:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/content/ntifs/nf-ntifs-ntquerydirectoryfilehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/file-attribute-constantshttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/fileio/reparse-point-tags
To determine if the specified directory is a symbolic link, inspect the
FileAttributes member to see if the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT flag is
set. If so, EaSize will contain the reparse tag (this is a so far
undocumented feature, but confirmed by the NTFS developers). To
determine if the reparse point is a symbolic link (and not some other
form of reparse point), test whether the tag value equals the value
IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK.
The NtQueryDirectoryFile() call works best (and on Windows 8.1 and
earlier, it works *only*) with buffer sizes up to 64kB. Which is 32k
wide characters, so let's use that as our buffer size.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The recent change to make fscache thread specific relied on fscache_enable()
being called first from the primary thread before being called in parallel
from worker threads. Make that more robust and protect it with a critical
section to avoid any issues.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
The Makefile target `install-mingit-test-artifacts` simply copies stuff
and things directly into a MinGit directory, including an init.bat
script to set everything up so that the tests can be run in a cmd
window.
Sadly, Git's test suite still relies on a Perl interpreter even if
compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease. We punt for now, installing a small
script into /usr/bin/perl that hands off to an existing Perl of a Git
for Windows SDK.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In the BusyBox-w32 version that is currently under consideration for
MinGit for Windows (to reduce the .zip size, and to avoid problems with
the MSYS2 runtime), the UTF-16 environment present in Windows is
considered to be authoritative, and the 8-bit version is always in UTF-8
encoding.
As a consequence, the ISO-8859-1 test in t9350-fast-export (which tries
to set GIT_AUTHOR_NAME to a ISO-8859-1 encoded value) *must* fail in
that setup.
So let's detect when it would fail (due to an environment being purely
kept UTF-8 encoded), and skip that test in that case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, the current working directory is pretty much guaranteed to
contain a colon. If we feed that path to CVS, it mistakes it for a
separator between host and port, though.
This has not been a problem so far because Git for Windows uses MSYS2's
Bash using a POSIX emulation layer that also pretends that the current
directory is a Unix path (at least as long as we're in a shell script).
However, that is rather limiting, as Git for Windows also explores other
ports of other Unix shells. One of those is BusyBox-w32's ash, which is
a native port (i.e. *not* using any POSIX emulation layer, and certainly
not emulating Unix paths).
So let's just detect if there is a colon in $PWD and punt in that case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
