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Johannes Schindelin
64fa6e2bca fixup! mimalloc: offer a build-time option to enable it
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>
2023-12-19 12:10:56 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
ab1a8a081a fixup! mimalloc: adjust for building inside Git
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>
2023-12-19 12:05:30 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
f2485bac9d amend! Import the source code of mimalloc v2.0.9
Import the source code of mimalloc v2.1.2

This commit imports mimalloc's source code as per v2.1.2, fetched from
the tag at https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc.

The .c files are from the src/ subdirectory, and the .h files from the
include/ and include/mimalloc/ subdirectories. We will subsequently
modify the source code to accommodate building within Git's context.

Since we plan on using the `mi_*()` family of functions, we skip the
C++-specific source code, some POSIX compliant functions to interact
with mimalloc, and the code that wants to support auto-magic overriding
of the `malloc()` function (mimalloc-new-delete.h, alloc-posix.c,
mimalloc-override.h, alloc-override.c, alloc-override-osx.c,
alloc-override-win.c and static.c).

To appease the `check-whitespace` job of Git's Continuous Integration,
this commit was washed one time via `git rebase --whitespace=fix`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-12-19 12:05:30 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
57e20a3394 fixup! Import the source code of mimalloc v2.0.9
In preparation for upgrading mimalloc to v2.1.2, let's revert this patch
so that we can start afresh, from a clean slate.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-12-19 10:34:27 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
0b1b785584 fixup! mimalloc: adjust for building inside Git
Revert this in preparation for upgrading mimalloc to v2.1.2 and then
redoing this patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-12-19 10:33:21 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
7865131761 fixup! mimalloc: offer a build-time option to enable it
Revert this in preparation for upgrading mimalloc to v2.1.2 and then
redoing this patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-12-19 10:33:17 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
71e3d430fc fixup! mimalloc: use "weak" random seed when statically linked
Revert this in preparation for upgrading mimalloc to v2.1.2 and then
redoing this patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-12-19 10:32:50 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
a0e46210e3 ARM64: Embed manifest properly (#4718)
Teach our ARM64 based builds to embed the manifest file correctly.

This fixes #4707
2023-12-07 09:00:15 +01:00
Matthias Aßhauer
5b49f4c97c git.rc: include winuser.h
winuser.h contains the definition of RT_MANIFEST that our LLVM based
toolchain needs to understand that we want to embed
compat/win32/git.manifest as an application manifest. It currently just
embeds it as additional data that Windows doesn't understand.

This also helps our GCC based toolchain understand that we only want one
copy embedded. It currently embeds one working assembly manifest and one
nearly identical, but useless copy as additional data.

This also teaches our Visual Studio based buildsystems to pick up the
manifest file from git.rc. This means we don't have to explicitly specify
it in contrib/buildsystems/Generators/Vcxproj.pm anymore. Slightly
counter-intuitively this also means we have to explicitly tell Cmake
not to embed a default manifest.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4707

Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
2023-12-06 08:59:16 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
e3d48734d0 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.
2023-12-02 22:06:18 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
cf15942e38 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.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-29 21:28:22 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
4b968f3ea3 Merge 'readme' into HEAD
Add a README.md for GitHub goodness.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
v2.43.0.windows.1
2023-11-20 18:02:41 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
59f10d557b Merge pull request #2837 from dscho/monitor-component-updates
Start monitoring updates of Git for Windows' component in the open
2023-11-20 18:02:40 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
72bd512afe Merge branch 'deprecate-core.useBuiltinFSMonitor'
Originally introduced as `core.useBuiltinFSMonitor` in Git for Windows
and developed, improved and stabilized there, the built-in FSMonitor
only made it into upstream Git (after unnecessarily long hemming and
hawing and throwing overly perfectionist style review sticks into the
spokes) as `core.fsmonitor = true`.

In Git for Windows, with this topic branch, we re-introduce the
now-obsolete config setting, with warnings suggesting to existing users
how to switch to the new config setting, with the intention to
ultimately drop the patch at some stage.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:40 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
e9f22fd416 Merge branch 'phase-out-reset-stdin'
This topic branch re-adds the deprecated --stdin/-z options to `git
reset`. Those patches were overridden by a different set of options in
the upstream Git project before we could propose `--stdin`.

We offered this in MinGit to applications that wanted a safer way to
pass lots of pathspecs to Git, and these applications will need to be
adjusted.

Instead of `--stdin`, `--pathspec-from-file=-` should be used, and
instead of `-z`, `--pathspec-file-nul`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:40 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
ececbe2b28 Merge branch 'un-revert-editor-save-and-reset'
A fix for calling `vim` in Windows Terminal caused a regression and was
reverted. We partially un-revert this, to get the fix again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:40 +01:00
Victoria Dye
115f722f01 Merge pull request #3492 from dscho/ns/batched-fsync
Switch to batched fsync by default
2023-11-20 18:02:40 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
2d5593307f Merge pull request #1170 from dscho/mingw-kill-process
Handle Ctrl+C in Git Bash nicely

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:40 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
c56e0d29dc 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>
2023-11-20 18:02:40 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
ae9168d538 Merge branch 'busybox-w32'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:39 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
7602fc0db7 Merge pull request #1897 from piscisaureus/symlink-attr
Specify symlink type in .gitattributes
2023-11-20 18:02:39 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6b16a4fb00 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>
2023-11-20 18:02:39 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6a60cd51da 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>
2023-11-20 18:02:39 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
0ca8a9762d Merge branch 'kblees/kb/symlinks' 2023-11-20 18:02:39 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6298fe1d07 SECURITY.md: document Git for Windows' policies
This is the recommended way on GitHub to describe policies revolving around
security issues and about supported versions.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:38 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
2618af5c25 Merge branch 'msys2' 2023-11-20 18:02:38 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
88c1da3755 Merge pull request #3817 from mathstuf/name-too-long-advice
clean: suggest using `core.longPaths` if paths are too long to remove
2023-11-20 18:02:38 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
235d76f345 Merge branch 'fix-v4-fsmonitor-long-paths' into try-v4-fsmonitor 2023-11-20 18:02:38 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
c9aa58388e Merge branch 'long-paths' 2023-11-20 18:02:38 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
8dccc78c03 Merge branch 'gitk-and-git-gui-patches'
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>
2023-11-20 18:02:38 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
15dca1b076 Add a GitHub workflow to monitor component updates
Rather than using private IFTTT Applets that send mails to this
maintainer whenever a new version of a Git for Windows component was
released, let's use the power of GitHub workflows to make this process
publicly visible.

This workflow monitors the Atom/RSS feeds, and opens a ticket whenever a
new version was released.

Note: Bash sometimes releases multiple patched versions within a few
minutes of each other (i.e. 5.1p1 through 5.1p4, 5.0p15 and 5.0p16). The
MSYS2 runtime also has a similar system. We can address those patches as
a group, so we shouldn't get multiple issues about them.

Note further: We're not acting on newlib releases, OpenSSL alphas, Perl
release candidates or non-stable Perl releases. There's no need to open
issues about them.

Co-authored-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:37 +01:00
Victoria Dye
e20190a0e6 fsmonitor: reintroduce core.useBuiltinFSMonitor
Reintroduce the 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor' config setting (originally added
in 0a756b2a25 (fsmonitor: config settings are repository-specific,
2021-03-05)) after its removal from the upstream version of FSMonitor.

Upstream, the 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor' setting was rendered obsolete by
"overloading" the 'core.fsmonitor' setting to take a boolean value. However,
several applications (e.g., 'scalar') utilize the original config setting,
so it should be preserved for a deprecation period before complete removal:

* if 'core.fsmonitor' is a boolean, the user is correctly using the new
  config syntax; do not use 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor'.
* if 'core.fsmonitor' is unspecified, use 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor'.
* if 'core.fsmonitor' is a path, override and use the builtin FSMonitor if
  'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor' is 'true'; otherwise, use the FSMonitor hook
  indicated by the path.

Additionally, for this deprecation period, advise users to switch to using
'core.fsmonitor' to specify their use of the builtin FSMonitor.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
2023-11-20 18:02:37 +01:00
Alejandro Barreto
639e11506f Document how $HOME is set on Windows
Git documentation refers to $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME often, but does not specify how or where these values come from on Windows where neither is set by default. The new documentation reflects the behavior of setup_windows_environment() in compat/mingw.c.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Barreto <alejandro.barreto@ni.com>
2023-11-20 18:02:37 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
acef9a50d7 .github: Add configuration for the Sentiment Bot
The sentiment bot will help detect when things get too heated.
Hopefully.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:37 +01:00
Philip Oakley
80f9fff8cc Modify the GitHub Pull Request template (to reflect Git for Windows)
Git for Windows accepts pull requests; Core Git does not. Therefore we
need to adjust the template (because it only matches core Git's
project management style, not ours).

Also: direct Git for Windows enhancements to their contributions page,
space out the text for easy reading, and clarify that the mailing list
is plain text, not HTML.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:37 +01:00
Brendan Forster
464a1aac4d Add an issue template
With improvements by Clive Chan, Adric Norris, Ben Bodenmiller and
Philip Oakley.

Helped-by: Clive Chan <cc@clive.io>
Helped-by: Adric Norris <landstander668@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Ben Bodenmiller <bbodenmiller@hotmail.com>
Helped-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Forster <brendan@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:37 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
3774cb83fa README.md: Add a Windows-specific preamble
Includes touch-ups by 마누엘, Philip Oakley and 孙卓识.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:37 +01:00
Derrick Stolee
e3158c1cb1 CONTRIBUTING.md: add guide for first-time contributors
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>
2023-11-20 18:02:37 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6f46106b28 Modify the Code of Conduct for Git for Windows
The Git project followed suite and added their Code of Conduct, based on
the Contributors' Covenant v1.4.

We edit it slightly to reflect Git for Windows' particulars.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:37 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
9e73bd969a Describe Git for Windows' architecture [no ci]
The Git for Windows project has grown quite complex over the years,
certainly much more complex than during the first years where the
`msysgit.git` repository was abusing Git for package management purposes
and the `git/git` fork was called `4msysgit.git`.

Let's describe the status quo in a thorough way.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:37 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
e83bb43adc reset: reinstate support for the deprecated --stdin option
The `--stdin` option was a well-established paradigm in other commands,
therefore we implemented it in `git reset` for use by Visual Studio.

Unfortunately, upstream Git decided that it is time to introduce
`--pathspec-from-file` instead.

To keep backwards-compatibility for some grace period, we therefore
reinstate the `--stdin` option on top of the `--pathspec-from-file`
option, but mark it firmly as deprecated.

Helped-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Helped-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:36 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
215f38a904 Partially un-revert "editor: save and reset terminal after calling EDITOR"
In e3f7e01b50 (Revert "editor: save and reset terminal after calling
EDITOR", 2021-11-22), we reverted the commit wholesale where the
terminal state would be saved and restored before/after calling an
editor.

The reverted commit was intended to fix a problem with Windows Terminal
where simply calling `vi` would cause problems afterwards.

To fix the problem addressed by the revert, but _still_ keep the problem
with Windows Terminal fixed, let's revert the revert, with a twist: we
restrict the save/restore _specifically_ to the case where `vi` (or
`vim`) is called, and do not do the same for any other editor.

This should still catch the majority of the cases, and will bridge the
time until the original patch is re-done in a way that addresses all
concerns.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:36 +01:00
Neeraj K. Singh
71bc5b07a8 mingw: do not call xutftowcs_path in mingw_mktemp
The `xutftowcs_path` function canonicalizes absolute paths using GetFullPathNameW.
This canonicalization may change the length of the string (e.g. getting rid of \.\),
which breaks callers that pass the template string in a strbuf and expect the
length of the string to remain the same.

In my particular case, the tmp-objdir code is passing a strbuf to mkdtemp and is
breaking since the strbuf.len is no longer synchronized with strlen(strbuf.buf).

Signed-off-by: Neeraj K. Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:36 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
df46739a84 mingw: really handle SIGINT
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>
2023-11-20 18:02:36 +01:00
xungeng li
8cd2d55ce8 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>
2023-11-20 18:02:36 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
1118e57c55 mingw: kill child processes in a gentler way
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>
2023-11-20 18:02:36 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
62cb5ce1c2 mingw: add a Makefile target to copy test artifacts
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>
2023-11-20 18:02:35 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
707e6ad7a2 t9200: skip tests when $PWD contains a colon
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>
2023-11-20 18:02:35 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
029b102ca3 t5813: allow for $PWD to be a Windows path
Git for Windows uses MSYS2's Bash to run the test suite, which comes
with benefits but also at a heavy price: on the plus side, MSYS2's
POSIX emulation layer allows us to continue pretending that we are on a
Unix system, e.g. use Unix paths instead of Windows ones, yet this is
bought at a rather noticeable performance penalty.

There *are* some more native ports of Unix shells out there, though,
most notably BusyBox-w32's ash. These native ports do not use any POSIX
emulation layer (or at most a *very* thin one, choosing to avoid
features such as fork() that are expensive to emulate on Windows), and
they use native Windows paths (usually with forward slashes instead of
backslashes, which is perfectly legal in almost all use cases).

And here comes the problem: with a $PWD looking like, say,
C:/git-sdk-64/usr/src/git/t/trash directory.t5813-proto-disable-ssh
Git's test scripts get quite a bit confused, as their assumptions have
been shattered. Not only does this path contain a colon (oh no!), it
also does not start with a slash.

This is a problem e.g. when constructing a URL as t5813 does it:
ssh://remote$PWD. Not only is it impossible to separate the "host" from
the path with a $PWD as above, even prefixing $PWD by a slash won't
work, as /C:/git-sdk-64/... is not a valid path.

As a workaround, detect when $PWD does not start with a slash on
Windows, and simply strip the drive prefix, using an obscure feature of
Windows paths: if an absolute Windows path starts with a slash, it is
implicitly prefixed by the drive prefix of the current directory. As we
are talking about the current directory here, anyway, that strategy
works.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:35 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6f94ed5c7c t5605: special-case hardlink test for BusyBox-w32
When t5605 tries to verify that files are hardlinked (or that they are
not), it uses the `-links` option of the `find` utility.

BusyBox' implementation does not support that option, and BusyBox-w32's
lstat() does not even report the number of hard links correctly (for
performance reasons).

So let's just switch to a different method that actually works on
Windows.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-20 18:02:35 +01:00