**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`.
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>
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.
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>
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>
No GitHub-hosted ARM64 runners are available at the moment of writing,
but folks can leverage self-hosted runners of this architecture. This CI
pipeline comes in handy for forks of the git-for-windows/git project
that have such runners available. The pipeline can be kicked off
manually through a workflow_dispatch.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
Newer compiler versions, like GCC 10 and Clang 12, have built-in
functions for bswap32 and bswap64. This comes in handy, for example,
when targeting CLANGARM64 on Windows, which would not be supported
without this logic.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
Add FileVersion, which is a required field
As not all required fields were present, none were being included
Fixes#4090
Signed-off-by: Kiel Hurley <kielhurley@gmail.com>
Thorough benchmarking with repacking a subset of linux.git (the commit
history reachable from 93a6fefe2f ([PATCH] fix the SYSCTL=n compilation,
2007-02-28), to be precise) suggest that this allocator is on par, in
multi-threaded situations maybe even better than nedmalloc:
`git repack -adfq` with mimalloc, 8 threads:
31.166991900 27.576763800 28.712311000 27.373859000 27.163141900
`git repack -adfq` with nedmalloc, 8 threads:
31.915032900 27.149883100 28.244933700 27.240188800 28.580849500
In a different test using GitHub Actions build agents (probably
single-threaded, a core-strength of nedmalloc)):
`git repack -q -d -l -A --unpack-unreachable=2.weeks.ago` with mimalloc:
943.426 978.500 939.709 959.811 954.605
`git repack -q -d -l -A --unpack-unreachable=2.weeks.ago` with nedmalloc:
995.383 952.179 943.253 963.043 980.468
While these measurements were not executed with complete scientific
rigor, as no hardware was set aside specifically for these benchmarks,
it shows that mimalloc and nedmalloc perform almost the same, nedmalloc
with a bit higher variance and also slightly higher average (further
testing suggests that nedmalloc performs worse in multi-threaded
situations than in single-threaded ones).
In short: mimalloc seems to be slightly better suited for our purposes
than nedmalloc.
Seeing that mimalloc is developed actively, while nedmalloc ceased to
see any updates in eight years, let's use mimalloc on Windows instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
CLANGARM64 is a relatively new MSYSTEM added by the MSYS2 team. In order
to have Git build correctly for this platform, let's add some
configuration for it to config.mak.uname.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
Setting `MIMALLOC_SHOW_STATS` to ask mimalloc to print out something
after the process is done is the easiest way to verify that a
mimalloc-enabled Git is running.
So it better work and not try to write to a Win32 Console when it got a
regular file handle instead or, as is the case in Git for Windows'
regular Git Bash window, an emulated pseudo terminal.
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.
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>
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>
Instead, load the `BCryptGenRandom()` function dynamically. When
needed. If needed.
This is necessary because the start-up cost of Git processes spent on
loading dynamic libraries is non-negligible.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
