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>
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.
This is a companion PR of https://github.com/prati0100/git-gui/pull/95
Since Git v2.39.1, we are a bit more stringent in searching the PATH. In
particular, we specifically require the `.exe` suffix.
However, the `Repository>Explore Working Copy` command asks for
`explorer.exe` to be found on the `PATH`, which _already_ has that
suffix.
Let's unstartle the PATH-finding logic about this scenario.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4356
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
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.
**This requires an ARM64-machine with Windows 11 installed (which
supports x64 emulation for MSYS2)**
### The main idea
- Use the main MSYS2/git-sdk-64 setup, which works on Windows 11 on ARM
thanks to x64-emulation
- Configure the official `clangarm64` MSYS2 repo
- Install `mingw-w64-clang-aarch64-toolchain` which contains the
ARM64-native Clang compiler
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`.
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.
Even if CMake is not the canonical way to build Git for Windows, but
CMake support merely exists in Git to support building Git for Windows
using Visual Studio, we should include `headless-git` in such a scenario
when installing the binaries to a given location.
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>
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>
This topic vendors in mimalloc v2.0.9, a fast allocator that allows Git
for Windows to perform efficiently.
Switch Git for Windows to using mimalloc instead of nedmalloc
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>
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>
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>
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>
Backport a couple fixes to make the CI build run again (so much for
reproducible builds...).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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>
Since Git v2.39.1, we are a bit more stringent in searching the PATH. In
particular, we specifically require the `.exe` suffix.
However, the `Repository>Explore Working Copy` command asks for
`explorer.exe` to be found on the `PATH`, which _already_ has that
suffix.
Let's unstartle the PATH-finding logic about this scenario.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4356
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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>
