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Karsten Blees
433cc4ffdf 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:56 +00:00
Karsten Blees
b493d7fc01 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:56 +00:00
Karsten Blees
3b26916a9c 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:56 +00:00
Karsten Blees
1553ee6288 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:56 +00:00
Karsten Blees
50d7687e74 Win32: dirent.c: Move opendir down
Move opendir down in preparation for the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2026-06-15 20:51:56 +00:00
Karsten Blees
b35439e167 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
ac60cb147d 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
434413225c 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
cff469fe6b Merge pull request #1897 from piscisaureus/symlink-attr
Specify symlink type in .gitattributes
2026-06-15 20:51:54 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
4be121b1f0 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:54 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
bd70b0fe37 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:54 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
2e0ee5e64f Merge branch 'msys2' 2026-06-15 20:51:54 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
37aac30177 credential-cache: handle ECONNREFUSED gracefully (#5329)
I should probably add some tests for this.
2026-06-15 20:51:52 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
58ef4238dd 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:52 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
2a70106425 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:51 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
02f65b9093 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.
2026-06-15 20:51:51 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
e2976653ed 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:50 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
ca543786f9 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.
2026-06-15 20:51:50 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
30b20bb741 Merge pull request #2974 from derrickstolee/maintenance-and-headless
Include Windows-specific maintenance and headless-git
2026-06-15 20:51:50 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
879cf233e7 Merge pull request #2506 from dscho/issue-2283
Allow running Git directly from `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe`
2026-06-15 20:51:50 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
ee8bb44ab7 Merge branch 'fsync-object-files-always'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-15 20:51:49 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
168933d380 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:49 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
d2a1050d87 Merge pull request #3875 from 1480c1/wine/detect_msys_tty
winansi: check result before using Name for pty
2026-06-15 20:51:49 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
8cabf91040 Merge pull request #3751 from rkitover/native-term
mingw: set $env:TERM=xterm-256color for newer OSes
2026-06-15 20:51:49 +00:00
Derrick Stolee
bdd8125ec2 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.
2026-06-15 20:51:49 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
7ebb54bff6 Merge pull request #3220 from dscho/there-is-no-vs/master-anymore
Let the documentation reflect that there is no vs/master anymore
2026-06-15 20:51:48 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
b726b2682f Merge pull request #3165 from dscho/increase-allowed-length-of-interpreter-path
mingw: allow for longer paths in `parse_interpreter()`
2026-06-15 20:51:48 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
dd45ca6b15 Merge pull request #2915 from dennisameling/windows-arm64-support
Windows arm64 support
2026-06-15 20:51:47 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
63c25f6f95 Merge pull request #2351 from PhilipOakley/vcpkg-tip
Vcpkg Install: detect lack of working Git, and note possible vcpkg time outs
2026-06-15 20:51:47 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
ca0704dd17 Merge pull request #2504 from dscho/access-repo-via-junction
Handle `git add <file>` where <file> traverses an NTFS junction
2026-06-15 20:51:47 +00:00
xungeng li
aea660b998 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
bc6ddbaf0c 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
David Lomas
90a586f05e 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
527f3d1556 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
39b806e77e 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
285e6f1a68 Merge pull request #2501 from jeffhostetler/clink-debug-curl
clink.pl: fix MSVC compile script to handle libcurl-d.lib
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
97462e986b 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Bert Belder
494e374e83 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
JiSeop Moon
afc61eee4f 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Karsten Blees
a778bc58bf 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
a4026d1ac5 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
JiSeop Moon
9ce5da5eac 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Karsten Blees
f9c9c2ea82 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Bert Belder
7670d85d26 Win32: symlink: move phantom symlink creation to a separate function
Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
JiSeop Moon
c759d9049e 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:46 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
410b8a1a20 run-command: be helpful with Git LFS fails on Windows 7
Git LFS is now built with Go 1.21 which no longer supports Windows 7.
However, Git for Windows still wants to support Windows 7.

Ideally, Git LFS would re-introduce Windows 7 support until Git for
Windows drops support for Windows 7, but that's not going to happen:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4996#issuecomment-2176152565

The next best thing we can do is to let the users know what is
happening, and how to get out of their fix, at least.

This is not quite as easy as it would first seem because programs
compiled with Go 1.21 or newer will simply throw an exception and fail
with an Access Violation on Windows 7.

The only way I found to address this is to replicate the logic from Go's
very own `version` command (which can determine the Go version with
which a given executable was built) to detect the situation, and in that
case offer a helpful error message.

This addresses https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4996.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-15 20:51:45 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
028932e1a9 win32: ensure that localtime_r() is declared even in i686 builds
The `__MINGW64__` constant is defined, surprise, surprise, only when
building for a 64-bit CPU architecture.

Therefore using it as a guard to define `_POSIX_C_SOURCE` (so that
`localtime_r()` is declared, among other functions) is not enough, we
also need to check `__MINGW32__`.

Technically, the latter constant is defined even for 64-bit builds. But
let's make things a bit easier to understand by testing for both
constants.

Making it so fixes this compile warning (turned error in GCC v14.1):

  archive-zip.c: In function 'dos_time':
  archive-zip.c:612:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'localtime_r';
  did you mean 'localtime_s'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
    612 |         localtime_r(&time, &tm);
        |         ^~~~~~~~~~~
        |         localtime_s

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-15 20:51:45 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
9f65b08a8a win32: use native ANSI sequence processing, if possible
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.

Or, almost all we need to do: When `console_thread()` does its work, it
uses the Unicode-aware `write_console()` function to write to the Win32
Console, which supports Git for Windows' implicit convention that all
text that is written is encoded in UTF-8. The same is not necessarily
true if native ANSI sequence processing is used, as the output is then
subject to the current code page. Let's ensure that the code page is set
to `CP_UTF8` as long as Git writes to it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-06-15 20:51:45 +00:00
David Lomas
a7a438e276 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:45 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
bca940ff2d 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>
2026-06-15 20:51:45 +00:00