1238 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Ben Peart
7fd352ff64 fscache: add fscache hit statistics
Track fscache hits and misses for lstat and opendir requests.  Reporting of
statistics is done when the cache is disabled for the last time and freed
and is only reported if GIT_TRACE_FSCACHE is set.

Sample output is:

11:33:11.836428 compat/win32/fscache.c:433 fscache: lstat 3775, opendir 263, total requests/misses 4052/269

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2026-02-02 18:10:39 +01:00
Ben Peart
5b6d26df40 fscache: add GIT_TEST_FSCACHE support
Add support to fscache to enable running the entire test suite with the
fscache enabled.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2026-02-02 18:10:39 +01:00
Ben Peart
12f3aea29d fscache: use FindFirstFileExW to avoid retrieving the short name
Use FindFirstFileExW with FindExInfoBasic to avoid forcing NTFS to look up
the short name.  Also switch to a larger (64K vs 4K) buffer using
FIND_FIRST_EX_LARGE_FETCH to minimize round trips to the kernel.

In a repo with ~200K files, this drops warm cache status times from 3.19
seconds to 2.67 seconds for a 16% savings.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2026-02-02 18:10:39 +01:00
Takuto Ikuta
f04f932525 checkout.c: enable fscache for checkout again
This is retry of #1419.

I added flush_fscache macro to flush cached stats after disk writing
with tests for regression reported in #1438 and #1442.

git checkout checks each file path in sorted order, so cache flushing does not
make performance worse unless we have large number of modified files in
a directory containing many files.

Using chromium repository, I tested `git checkout .` performance when I
delete 10 files in different directories.
With this patch:
TotalSeconds: 4.307272
TotalSeconds: 4.4863595
TotalSeconds: 4.2975562
Avg: 4.36372923333333

Without this patch:
TotalSeconds: 20.9705431
TotalSeconds: 22.4867685
TotalSeconds: 18.8968292
Avg: 20.7847136

I confirmed this patch passed all tests in t/ with core_fscache=1.

Signed-off-by: Takuto Ikuta <tikuta@chromium.org>
2026-02-02 18:10:38 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
4cc5912579 fscache: make fscache_enabled() public
Make fscache_enabled() function public rather than static.
Remove unneeded fscache_is_enabled() function.
Change is_fscache_enabled() macro to call fscache_enabled().

is_fscache_enabled() now takes a pathname so that the answer
is more precise and mean "is fscache enabled for this pathname",
since fscache only stores repo-relative paths and not absolute
paths, we can avoid attempting lookups for absolute paths.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
2026-02-02 18:10:38 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
957859f626 dir.c: make add_excludes aware of fscache during status
Teach read_directory_recursive() and add_excludes() to
be aware of optional fscache and avoid trying to open()
and fstat() non-existant ".gitignore" files in every
directory in the worktree.

The current code in add_excludes() calls open() and then
fstat() for a ".gitignore" file in each directory present
in the worktree.  Change that when fscache is enabled to
call lstat() first and if present, call open().

This seems backwards because both lstat needs to do more
work than fstat.  But when fscache is enabled, fscache will
already know if the .gitignore file exists and can completely
avoid the IO calls.  This works because of the lstat diversion
to mingw_lstat when fscache is enabled.

This reduced status times on a 350K file enlistment of the
Windows repo on a NVMe SSD by 0.25 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
2026-02-02 18:10:38 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
9de01b7f16 fscache: remember not-found directories
Teach FSCACHE to remember "not found" directories.

This is a performance optimization.

FSCACHE is a performance optimization available for Windows.  It
intercepts Posix-style lstat() calls into an in-memory directory
using FindFirst/FindNext.  It improves performance on Windows by
catching the first lstat() call in a directory, using FindFirst/
FindNext to read the list of files (and attribute data) for the
entire directory into the cache, and short-cut subsequent lstat()
calls in the same directory.  This gives a major performance
boost on Windows.

However, it does not remember "not found" directories.  When STATUS
runs and there are missing directories, the lstat() interception
fails to find the parent directory and simply return ENOENT for the
file -- it does not remember that the FindFirst on the directory
failed. Thus subsequent lstat() calls in the same directory, each
re-attempt the FindFirst.  This completely defeats any performance
gains.

This can be seen by doing a sparse-checkout on a large repo and
then doing a read-tree to reset the skip-worktree bits and then
running status.

This change reduced status times for my very large repo by 60%.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:38 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
1d27d42582 fscache: add key for GIT_TRACE_FSCACHE
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:38 +01:00
Karsten Blees
c7bec347d5 fscache: load directories only once
If multiple threads access a directory that is not yet in the cache, the
directory will be loaded by each thread. Only one of the results is added
to the cache, all others are leaked. This wastes performance and memory.

On cache miss, add a future object to the cache to indicate that the
directory is currently being loaded. Subsequent threads register themselves
with the future object and wait. When the first thread has loaded the
directory, it replaces the future object with the result and notifies
waiting threads.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:37 +01:00
Karsten Blees
efb2db143b 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:37 +01:00
Karsten Blees
2eae55f50e 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:37 +01:00
Karsten Blees
3af31fe4ff 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:37 +01:00
Karsten Blees
adb55cab7e 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:37 +01:00
Karsten Blees
9ebeafd91b Win32: dirent.c: Move opendir down
Move opendir down in preparation for the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:37 +01:00
Karsten Blees
86c0c24ad4 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:37 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
72cc152761 credential-cache: handle ECONNREFUSED gracefully (#5329)
I should probably add some tests for this.
2026-02-02 18:10:34 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
da1d6773c2 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:33 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
089407ca0d 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:33 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
0d77daa687 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.
2026-02-02 18:10:32 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
26127c0d42 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:32 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
5e7e72b113 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.
2026-02-02 18:10:32 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
96b5c58220 Merge pull request #2974 from derrickstolee/maintenance-and-headless
Include Windows-specific maintenance and headless-git
2026-02-02 18:10:31 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
65bffa24c7 Merge pull request #2506 from dscho/issue-2283
Allow running Git directly from `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe`
2026-02-02 18:10:31 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
7a087e0e7f Merge branch 'fsync-object-files-always'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:30 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
44ce36c47f 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:29 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
49a54e17e7 Merge pull request #3875 from 1480c1/wine/detect_msys_tty
winansi: check result before using Name for pty
2026-02-02 18:10:29 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
3efc561460 Merge pull request #3751 from rkitover/native-term
mingw: set $env:TERM=xterm-256color for newer OSes
2026-02-02 18:10:29 +01:00
Derrick Stolee
74f06ad817 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.
2026-02-02 18:10:29 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
ff1ef3e7f2 Merge pull request #3220 from dscho/there-is-no-vs/master-anymore
Let the documentation reflect that there is no vs/master anymore
2026-02-02 18:10:28 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
5c0926b288 Merge pull request #3165 from dscho/increase-allowed-length-of-interpreter-path
mingw: allow for longer paths in `parse_interpreter()`
2026-02-02 18:10:27 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
69890446a4 Merge pull request #2915 from dennisameling/windows-arm64-support
Windows arm64 support
2026-02-02 18:10:27 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
726e592652 Merge pull request #2351 from PhilipOakley/vcpkg-tip
Vcpkg Install: detect lack of working Git, and note possible vcpkg time outs
2026-02-02 18:10:27 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
5bfc13c201 Merge pull request #2504 from dscho/access-repo-via-junction
Handle `git add <file>` where <file> traverses an NTFS junction
2026-02-02 18:10:25 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
2fe32210dd Merge pull request #2501 from jeffhostetler/clink-debug-curl
clink.pl: fix MSVC compile script to handle libcurl-d.lib
2026-02-02 18:10:25 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
78a487b970 Merge pull request #2488 from bmueller84/master
mingw: fix fatal error working on mapped network drives on Windows
2026-02-02 18:10:25 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
4adf5e3632 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
2026-02-02 18:10:24 +01:00
Matthias Aßhauer
6c78e58121 compat/mingw: drop outdated comment
This comment has been true for the longest time; The combination of the
two preceding commits made it incorrect, so let's drop that comment.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:22 +01:00
Matthias Aßhauer
6fe1792d20 compat/mingw: handle WSA errors in strerror
We map WSAGetLastError() errors to errno errors in winsock_error_to_errno(),
but the MSVC strerror() implementation only produces "Unknown error" for
most of them. Produce some more meaningful error messages in these
cases.

Our builds for ARM64 link against the newer UCRT strerror() that does know
these errors, so we won't change the strerror() used there.

The wording of the messages is copied from glibc strerror() messages.

Reported-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:22 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
7694f25a70 mingw: make sure errno is set correctly when socket operations fail
The winsock2 library provides functions that work on different data
types than file descriptors, therefore we wrap them.

But that is not the only difference: they also do not set `errno` but
expect the callers to enquire about errors via `WSAGetLastError()`.

Let's translate that into appropriate `errno` values whenever the socket
operations fail so that Git's code base does not have to change its
expectations.

This closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2404

Helped-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:22 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
57dc6fe0e1 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:21 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
ebafe20390 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:20 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
9868204c17 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:20 +01:00
David Lomas
d793256688 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:20 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6f319a4227 http: when loading libcurl lazily, allow for multiple SSL backends
The previous commits introduced a compile-time option to load libcurl
lazily, but it uses the hard-coded name "libcurl-4.dll" (or equivalent
on platforms other than Windows).

To allow for installing multiple libcurl flavors side by side, where
each supports one specific SSL/TLS backend, let's first look whether
`libcurl-<backend>-4.dll` exists, and only use `libcurl-4.dll` as a fall
back.

That will allow us to ship with a libcurl by default that only supports
the Secure Channel backend for the `https://` protocol. This libcurl
won't suffer from any dependency problem when upgrading OpenSSL to a new
major version (which will change the DLL name, and hence break every
program and library that depends on it).

This is crucial because Git for Windows relies on libcurl to keep
working when building and deploying a new OpenSSL package because that
library is used by `git fetch` and `git clone`.

Note that this feature is by no means specific to Windows. On Ubuntu,
for example, a `git` built using `LAZY_LOAD_LIBCURL` will use
`libcurl.so.4` for `http.sslbackend=openssl` and `libcurl-gnutls.so.4`
for `http.sslbackend=gnutls`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:19 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
3d7685d361 clink.pl: move default linker options for MSVC=1 builds
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>
2026-02-02 18:10:19 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
7f75726208 http: support lazy-loading libcurl also on Windows
This implements the Windows-specific support code, because everything is
slightly different on Windows, even loading shared libraries.

Note: I specifically do _not_ use the code from
`compat/win32/lazyload.h` here because that code is optimized for
loading individual functions from various system DLLs, while we
specifically want to load _many_ functions from _one_ DLL here, and
distinctly not a system DLL (we expect libcurl to be located outside
`C:\Windows\system32`, something `INIT_PROC_ADDR` refuses to work with).
Also, the `curl_easy_getinfo()`/`curl_easy_setopt()` functions are
declared as vararg functions, which `lazyload.h` cannot handle. Finally,
we are about to optionally override the exact file name that is to be
loaded, which is a goal contrary to `lazyload.h`'s design.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:19 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
e8fb572152 http: optionally load libcurl lazily
This compile-time option allows to ask Git to load libcurl dynamically
at runtime.

Together with a follow-up patch that optionally overrides the file name
depending on the `http.sslBackend` setting, this kicks open the door for
installing multiple libcurl flavors side by side, and load the one
corresponding to the (runtime-)configured SSL/TLS backend.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-02-02 18:10:19 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
4f767c3fc9 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>
2026-02-02 18:10:18 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
807ffc67e0 clink.pl: ignore no-stack-protector arg on MSVC=1 builds
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>
2026-02-02 18:10:18 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
d1d783f9b2 mingw: allow git.exe to be used instead of the "Git wrapper"
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>
2026-02-02 18:10:18 +01:00