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.
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
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
The vcpkg downloads may not succeed. Warn careful readers of the time out.
A simple retry will usually resolve the issue.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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>
The vcpkg_install batch file depends on the availability of a
working Git on the CMD path. This may not be present if the user
has selected the 'bash only' option during Git-for-Windows install.
Detect and tell the user about their lack of a working Git in the CMD
window.
Fixes#2348.
A separate PR https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/pull/258
now highlights the recommended path setting during install.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Ignore the `-fno-stack-protector` compiler argument when building
with MSVC. This will be used in a later commit that needs to build
a Win32 GUI app.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
A change between versions 2.4.1 and 2.6.0 of the MSYS2 runtime modified
how Cygwin's runtime (and hence Git for Windows' MSYS2 runtime
derivative) handles locales: d16a56306d (Consolidate wctomb/mbtowc calls
for POSIX-1.2008, 2016-07-20).
An unintended side-effect is that "cold-calling" into the POSIX
emulation will start with a locale based on the current code page,
something that Git for Windows is very ill-prepared for, as it expects
to be able to pass a command-line containing non-ASCII characters to the
shell without having those characters munged.
One symptom of this behavior: when `git clone` or `git fetch` shell out
to call `git-upload-pack` with a path that contains non-ASCII
characters, the shell tried to interpret the entire command-line
(including command-line parameters) as executable path, which obviously
must fail.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1036
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In this context, a "feature" is a dependency combined with its own
dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Ian Bearman <ianb@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Create a wrapper for the Windows Resource Compiler (RC.EXE)
for use by the MSVC=1 builds. This is similar to the CL.EXE
and LIB.EXE wrappers used for the MSVC=1 builds.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
When building with `make MSVC=1 DEBUG=1`, link to `libexpatd.lib`
rather than `libexpat.lib`.
It appears that the `vcpkg` package for "libexpat" has changed and now
creates `libexpatd.lib` for debug mode builds. Previously, both debug
and release builds created a ".lib" with the same basename.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
There is a Win32 API function to resolve symbolic links, and we can use
that instead of resolving them manually. Even better, this function also
resolves NTFS junction points (which are somewhat similar to bind
mounts).
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2481.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Update clink.pl to link with either libcurl.lib or libcurl-d.lib
depending on whether DEBUG=1 is set.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In 1e64d18 (mingw: do resolve symlinks in `getcwd()`) a problem was
introduced that causes git for Windows to stop working with certain
mapped network drives (in particular, drives that are mapped to
locations with long path names). Error message was "fatal: Unable to
read current working directory: No such file or directory". Present
change fixes this issue as discussed in
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2480
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Mueller <bjoernm@gmx.de>
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>
By defining `USE_MIMALLOC`, Git can now be compiled with that
nicely-fast and small allocator.
Note that we have to disable a couple `DEVELOPER` options to build
mimalloc's source code, as it makes heavy use of declarations after
statements, among other things that disagree with Git's conventions.
We even have to silence some GCC warnings in non-DEVELOPER mode. For
example, the `-Wno-array-bounds` flag is needed because in `-O2` builds,
trying to call `NtCurrentTeb()` (which `_mi_thread_id()` does on
Windows) causes the bogus warning about a system header, likely related
to https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/37674519/ and to
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99578:
C:/git-sdk-64-minimal/mingw64/include/psdk_inc/intrin-impl.h:838:1:
error: array subscript 0 is outside array bounds of 'long long unsigned int[0]' [-Werror=array-bounds]
838 | __buildreadseg(__readgsqword, unsigned __int64, "gs", "q")
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also: The `mimalloc` library uses C11-style atomics, therefore we must
require that standard when compiling with GCC if we want to use
`mimalloc` (instead of requiring "only" C99). This is what we do in the
CMake definition already, therefore this commit does not need to touch
`contrib/buildsystems/`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
We want to compile mimalloc's source code as part of Git, rather than
requiring the code to be built as an external library: mimalloc uses a
CMake-based build, which is not necessarily easy to integrate into the
flavors of Git for Windows (which will be the main benefitting port).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
We are about to vendor in `mimalloc`'s source code which we will want to
include `compat/posix.h` after defining that constant.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When asking the mingw-w64 variant of GCC to compile C11 code, it seems
to link implicitly to libwinpthread, which does implement a pthread
emulation (that is more complete than Git's).
In preparation for vendoring in mimalloc (which requires C11 support),
let's keep preferring Git's own pthread emulation.
To avoid linker errors where it thinks that the `pthread_self` and the
`pthread_create` symbols are defined twice, let's give our version a
`win32_` prefix, just like we already do for `pthread_join()`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
1edeb9a (Win32: warn if the console font doesn't support Unicode,
2014-06-10) introduced both code to detect the current console font on
Windows Vista and newer and a fallback for older systems to detect the
default console font and issue a warning if that font doesn't support
unicode.
Since we haven't supported any Windows older than Vista in almost a
decade, we don't need to keep the workaround.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git for Windows doesn't support anything prior to Windows 8.1 since 2.47.0
and Git followed along with commits like ce6ccba (mingw: drop Windows
7-specific work-around, 2025-08-04).
There is no need to pretend to the compiler that we still support Windows
Vista, just to lock us out of easy access to newer APIs. There is also no
need to have conflicting and unused definitions claiming we support some
versions of Windows XP or even Windows NT 4.0.
Bump all definitions of _WIN32_WINNT to a realistic value of Windows 8.1.
This will also simplify code for a followup commit that will improve cpu
core detection on multi-socket systems.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `mingw_strftime()` wrapper exists to work around msvcrt.dll's
incomplete `strftime()` implementation by dynamically loading the
version from ucrtbase.dll at runtime via `LoadLibrary()` +
`GetProcAddress()`. When the binary is already linked against UCRT
(i.e. when building in the UCRT64 environment), the linked-in
`strftime()` is the ucrtbase.dll version, making the dynamic loading
needless churn: It's calling the very same code.
Simply guard both the declaration and implementation so that the
unnecessary work-around is skipped in UCRT builds.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recently some GitHub CI jobs were broken by update on the platform
side, which was eventually resolved by image rollback, but in the
meantime Dscho invented a workaround patch to sidestep the broken
part of the platform. Their future image update may contain the
same bug, in which case the workaround may again become needed.
As we do not want to be building with workaround that avoids system
regexp library altogether unless the system is known to be broken,
so short of an automated "detect broken system and apply workaround"
mechanism, let's use the folks who are compiling the code to detect
breakage on their system and cope with the breakage ;-)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reduce system overhead "git upload-pack" spends on relaying "git
pack-objects" output to the "git fetch" running on the other end of
the connection.
* ps/upload-pack-buffer-more-writes:
builtin/pack-objects: reduce lock contention when writing packfile data
csum-file: drop `hashfd_throughput()`
csum-file: introduce `hashfd_ext()`
sideband: use writev(3p) to send pktlines
wrapper: introduce writev(3p) wrappers
compat/posix: introduce writev(3p) wrapper
upload-pack: reduce lock contention when writing packfile data
upload-pack: prefer flushing data over sending keepalive
upload-pack: adapt keepalives based on buffering
upload-pack: fix debug statement when flushing packfile data
