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Johannes Schindelin
41bbbf61a5 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
2026-04-20 18:03:23 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
6bb2e41aad 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.
2026-04-20 18:03:23 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
5ab13625cc 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`.
2026-04-20 18:03:23 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
0d669dd0b2 Merge pull request #3942 from rimrul/mingw-tsaware
MinGW: link as terminal server aware
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
7bff5cfa0a Merge branch 'fsync-object-files-always'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
6df11e53d6 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>
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
312edc94ca Merge pull request #3875 from 1480c1/wine/detect_msys_tty
winansi: check result before using Name for pty
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
8b55d34a3d Merge pull request #3751 from rkitover/native-term
mingw: set $env:TERM=xterm-256color for newer OSes
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Derrick Stolee
716a08f8f1 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.
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
34ddcfb751 Merge pull request #3533 from PhilipOakley/hashliteral_t
Begin `unsigned long`->`size_t` conversion to support large files on Windows
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
0a44024ccf Merge pull request #3306 from PhilipOakley/vs-sln
Make Git for Windows start builds in modern Visual Studio
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
49b6bacf42 Merge pull request #3349 from vdye/feature/ci-subtree-tests
Add `contrib/subtree` test execution to CI builds
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
c6916196d1 Merge pull request #3293 from pascalmuller/http-support-automatically-sending-client-certificate
http: Add support for enabling automatic sending of SSL client certificate
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
7932e125ee Merge pull request #3220 from dscho/there-is-no-vs/master-anymore
Let the documentation reflect that there is no vs/master anymore
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
9a0a78cf3a Merge pull request #3165 from dscho/increase-allowed-length-of-interpreter-path
mingw: allow for longer paths in `parse_interpreter()`
2026-04-20 18:03:22 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
0a99240d0c Merge pull request #3327 from dennisameling/fix-host-cpu
cmake(): allow setting HOST_CPU for cross-compilation
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
a161a5230e Merge pull request #2915 from dennisameling/windows-arm64-support
Windows arm64 support
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
6965d2d638 Merge pull request #2351 from PhilipOakley/vcpkg-tip
Vcpkg Install: detect lack of working Git, and note possible vcpkg time outs
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
35eae912a3 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>
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
1e570ff0c0 Merge pull request #2655 from jglathe/jg/t0014_trace_extra_info
t/t0014: fix: eliminate additional lines from trace
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
07d61db381 Merge pull request #2714 from lbonanomi/crlf-scissors
Rationalize line endings for scissors-cleanup
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
f7e56fc242 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>
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
1f118db8e6 Merge pull request #2618 from dscho/avoid-d/f-conflict-in-vs/master
ci: avoid d/f conflict in vs/master
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
117e03c711 Merge pull request #2535 from dscho/schannel-revoke-best-effort
Introduce and use the new "best effort" strategy for Secure Channel revoke checking
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
255f5e76c9 Merge pull request #2504 from dscho/access-repo-via-junction
Handle `git add <file>` where <file> traverses an NTFS junction
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
fda52e59fd Merge pull request #2501 from jeffhostetler/clink-debug-curl
clink.pl: fix MSVC compile script to handle libcurl-d.lib
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
5071daf969 Merge pull request #2488 from bmueller84/master
mingw: fix fatal error working on mapped network drives on Windows
2026-04-20 18:03:21 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
3538929486 Merge pull request #2375 from assarbad/reintroduce-sideband-config
Config option to disable side-band-64k for transport
2026-04-20 18:03:20 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
c3aa116c57 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
2026-04-20 18:03:20 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
a9d5eccda7 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>
2026-04-20 18:03:20 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
7f130aaac6 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>
2026-04-20 18:03:20 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
b2fa1409b1 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>
2026-04-20 18:03:20 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
9bc31c17c1 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>
2026-04-20 18:03:20 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
08180849b7 windows: skip linking git-<command> for built-ins
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.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-20 18:02:01 +02:00
Andrey Zabavnikov
5f81752abe status: fix for old-style submodules with commondir
In f9b7573f6b (repository: free fields before overwriting them,
2017-09-05), Git was taught to release memory before overwriting it, but
357a03ebe9 (repository.c: move env-related setup code back to
environment.c, 2018-03-03) changed the code so that it would not
_always_ be overwritten.

As a consequence, the `commondir` attribute would point to
already-free()d memory.

This seems not to cause problems in core Git, but there are add-on
patches in Git for Windows where the `commondir` attribute is
subsequently used and causing invalid memory accesses e.g. in setups
containing old-style submodules (i.e. the ones with a `.git` directory
within theirs worktrees) that have `commondir` configured.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/4083.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Zabavnikov <zabavnikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-20 18:02:01 +02:00
Kiel Hurley
83c13c3ff4 Fix Windows version resources
Add FileVersion, which is a required field
As not all required fields were present, none were being included
Fixes #4090

Signed-off-by: Kiel Hurley <kielhurley@gmail.com>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Matthias Aßhauer
a86140eec4 MinGW: link as terminal server aware
Whith Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced a flag to the PE header to mark executables as
"terminal server aware". Windows terminal servers provide a redirected Windows directory and
redirected registry hives when launching legacy applications without this flag set. Since we
do not use any INI files in the Windows directory and don't write to the registry, we don't
need  this additional preparation. Telling the OS that we don't need this should provide
slightly improved startup times in terminal server environments.

When building for supported Windows Versions with MSVC the /TSAWARE linker flag is
automatically set, but MinGW requires us to set the --tsaware flag manually.

This partially addresses https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3935.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
f058d3c293 mingw: change core.fsyncObjectFiles = 1 by default
From the documentation of said setting:

	This boolean will enable fsync() when writing object files.

	This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that
	orders data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems
	that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or
	that only journal metadata and not file contents (OS X’s HFS+,
	or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").

The most common file system on Windows (NTFS) does not guarantee that
order, therefore a sudden loss of power (or any other event causing an
unclean shutdown) would cause corrupt files (i.e. files filled with
NULs). Therefore we need to change the default.

Note that the documentation makes it sound as if this causes really bad
performance. In reality, writing loose objects is something that is done
only rarely, and only a handful of files at a time.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
孙卓识
236f7a923f Add config option windows.appendAtomically
Atomic append on windows is only supported on local disk files, and it may
cause errors in other situations, e.g. network file system. If that is the
case, this config option should be used to turn atomic append off.

Co-Authored-By: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: 孙卓识 <sunzhuoshi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Christopher Degawa
12506a8cfa winansi: check result and Buffer before using Name
NtQueryObject under Wine can return a success but fill out no name.
In those situations, Wine will set Buffer to NULL, and set result to
the sizeof(OBJECT_NAME_INFORMATION).

Running a command such as

echo "$(git.exe --version 2>/dev/null)"

will crash due to a NULL pointer dereference when the code attempts to
null terminate the buffer, although, weirdly, removing the subshell or
redirecting stdout to a file will not trigger the crash.

Code has been added to also check Buffer and Length to ensure the check
is as robust as possible due to the current behavior being fragile at
best, and could potentially change in the future

This code is based on the behavior of NtQueryObject under wine and
reactos.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Degawa <ccom@randomderp.com>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Rafael Kitover
6d35a8645b mingw: $env:TERM="xterm-256color" for newer OSes
For Windows builds >= 15063 set $env:TERM to "xterm-256color" instead of
"cygwin" because they have a more capable console system that supports
this. Also set $env:COLORTERM="truecolor" if unset.

$env:TERM is initialized so that ANSI colors in color.c work, see
29a3963484 (Win32: patch Windows environment on startup, 2012-01-15).

See git-for-windows/git#3629 regarding problems caused by always setting
$env:TERM="cygwin".

This is the same heuristic used by the Cygwin runtime.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Kitover <rkitover@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Derrick Stolee
f0975a65c6 compat/mingw.c: do not warn when failing to get owner
In the case of Git for Windows (say, in a Git Bash window) running in a
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) directory, the GetNamedSecurityInfoW()
call in is_path_owned_By_current_side() returns an error code other than
ERROR_SUCCESS. This is consistent behavior across this boundary.

In these cases, the owner would always be different because the WSL
owner is a different entity than the Windows user.

The change here is to suppress the error message that looks like this:

  error: failed to get owner for '//wsl.localhost/...' (1)

Before this change, this warning happens for every Git command,
regardless of whether the directory is marked with safe.directory.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Philip Oakley
4238648b61 hash-object: add a >4GB/LLP64 test case using filtered input
To verify that the `clean` side of the `clean`/`smudge` filter code is
correct with regards to LLP64 (read: to ensure that `size_t` is used
instead of `unsigned long`), here is a test case using a trivial filter,
specifically _not_ writing anything to the object store to limit the
scope of the test case.

As in previous commits, the `big` file from previous test cases is
reused if available, to save setup time, otherwise re-generated.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Philip Oakley
c0feddac08 CMake: show Win32 and Generator_platform build-option values
Ensure key CMake option values are part of the CMake output to
facilitate user support when tool updates impact the wider CMake
actions, particularly ongoing 'improvements' in Visual Studio.

These CMake displays perform the same function as the build-options.txt
provided in the main Git for Windows. CMake is already chatty.
The setting of CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS is also reported.

Include the environment's CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS value which
may have been propogated to CMake's internal value.

Testing the CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS processing can be difficult
in the Visual Studio environment, as it may be cached in many places.
The 'environment' may include the OS, the user shell, CMake's
own environment, along with the Visual Studio presets and caches.

See previous commit for arefacts that need removing for a clean test.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Victoria Dye
b988e69ec4 ci: run contrib/subtree tests in CI builds
Because `git subtree` (unlike most other `contrib` modules) is included as
part of the standard release of Git for Windows, its stability should be
verified as consistently as it is for the rest of git. By including the
`git subtree` tests in the CI workflow, these tests are as much of a gate to
merging and indicator of stability as the standard test suite.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Pascal Muller
c5edd5414d http: optionally send SSL client certificate
This adds support for a new http.sslAutoClientCert config value.

In cURL 7.77 or later the schannel backend does not automatically send
client certificates from the Windows Certificate Store anymore.

This config value is only used if http.sslBackend is set to "schannel",
and can be used to opt in to the old behavior and force cURL to send
client certificates.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3292

Signed-off-by: Pascal Muller <pascalmuller@gmail.com>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
38db771d3b compat/vcbuild: document preferred way to build in Visual Studio
We used to have that `make vcxproj` hack, but a hack it is. In the
meantime, we have a much cleaner solution: using CMake, either
explicitly, or even more conveniently via Visual Studio's built-in CMake
support (simply open Git's top-level directory via File>Open>Folder...).

Let's let the `README` reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
dd172a9548 mingw: allow for longer paths in parse_interpreter()
As reported in https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/pull/225, it
looks like 99 bytes is not really sufficient to represent e.g. the full
path to Python when installed via Windows Store (and this path is used
in the hasb bang line when installing scripts via `pip`).

Let's increase it to what is probably the maximum sensible path size:
MAX_PATH. This makes `parse_interpreter()` in line with what
`lookup_prog()` handles.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Vilius Šumskas <vilius@sumskas.eu>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Dennis Ameling
56570fac06 cmake(): allow setting HOST_CPU for cross-compilation
Git's regular Makefile mentions that HOST_CPU should be defined when cross-compiling Git: 37796bca76/Makefile (L438-L439)

This is then used to set the GIT_HOST_CPU variable when compiling Git: 37796bca76/Makefile (L1337-L1341)

Then, when the user runs `git version --build-options`, it returns that value: 37796bca76/help.c (L658)

This commit adds the same functionality to the CMake configuration. Users can now set -DHOST_CPU= to set the target architecture.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00
Derrick Stolee
9afac8db40 setup: properly use "%(prefix)/" when in WSL
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
2026-04-20 18:02:00 +02:00