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>
Historically, the macOS jobs have always been among the longest-running
ones, and recently the `git p4` tests became another liability: They
started to fail much more often (maybe as of the switch away from the
`macos-13` pool?), requiring re-runs of the jobs that already were
responsible for long CI build times.
Of the 35 test scripts that exercise `git p4`, 32 are actually run on
macOS (3 are skipped for reasons like case-sensitivee filesystem), and
they take an accumulated runtime of over half an hour.
Furthermore, the `git p4` command is not really affected by Git for
Windows' patches, at least not as far as macOS is concerned, therefore
it is not only causing developer friction to have these long-running,
frequently failing tests, it is also quite wasteful: There has not been
a single instance so far where any `git p4` test failure in Git for
Windows had demonstrated an actionable bug.
So let's just disable those tests in the CI runs, at least on macOS.
There have been too many challenges supporting `git svn`, including lack
of participation in developing/maintaining the required stack.
See https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5405 for full details.
Historically, the macOS jobs have always been among the longest-running
ones, and recently the `git p4` tests became another liability: They
started to fail much more often (maybe as of the switch away from the
`macos-13` pool?), requiring re-runs of the jobs that already were
responsible for long CI build times.
Of the 35 test scripts that exercise `git p4`, 32 are actually run on
macOS (3 are skipped for reasons like case-sensitivee filesystem), and
they take an accumulated runtime of over half an hour.
Furthermore, the `git p4` command is not really affected by Git for
Windows' patches, at least not as far as macOS is concerned, therefore
it is not only causing developer friction to have these long-running,
frequently failing tests, it is also quite wasteful: There has not been
a single instance so far where any `git p4` test failure in Git for
Windows had demonstrated an actionable bug.
While upstream Git is confident to have addressed the flakiness of the
`git p4` tests via ffff0bb0dac1 (Use Perforce arm64 binary on macOS CI
jobs, 2025-11-16) (which got slipped in at the 11th hour into the
v2.52.0 release, fast-tracked without ever hitting `seen` even after
-rc2 was released), I am not quite so confident, and besides, the
runtime penalty of running those tests in Git for Windows' CI runs is
still a worrisome burden.
So let's just disable those tests in the CI runs, at least on macOS.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is the branch thicket of patches in Git for Windows that are
considered ready for upstream. To keep them in a ready-to-submit shape,
they are kept as close to the beginning of the branch thicket as
possible.
There have been too many challenges supporting `git svn`, including lack
of participation in developing/maintaining the required stack.
See https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5405 for full details.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git v2.53.0-rc0 included f406b895529 (Merge branch
'ar/run-command-hook', 2026-01-06), which caused a regression on
Windows. While this merge was reverted for independent reasons in
a3d1f391d35 (Revert "Merge branch 'ar/run-command-hook'", 2026-01-15),
it seems worthwhile to ensure that writing to standard error from a
`pre-push` hook remains unbroken.
The symptom, when running this regression test case against
v2.53.0-rc0.windows.1 is that the `git push` fails, with this message
printed to standard error:
.git/hooks/pre-push: line 2: /dev/stderr: No such file or
direct[61/1940]
error: failed to push some refs to 'repo1'
When that hook runs, `/dev/stderr` is a symlink to `/proc/self/fd/2`, as
always, but `ls -l /proc/self/fd/` shows this in the failing run
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me 4096 0 Jan 27 14:34 0 -> pipe:[0]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me 4096 0 Jan 27 14:34 1 -> pipe:[0]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me 4096 0 Jan 27 14:34 2 -> pipe:[0]
instead of the expected contents (which are shown when running this
against v2.53.0-rc1.windows.1):
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me 4096 0 Jan 27 14:53 0 -> 'pipe:[0]'
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me 4096 0 Jan 27 14:53 1 -> /dev/cons1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me 4096 0 Jan 27 14:53 2 -> '/path/to/git/t/trash
directory.t5571-pre-push-hook/actual'
This suggests that the underlying reason might be that `stdout` has an
exclusive handle to that pipe, and opening `stderr` (which points to the
same pipe) fails because of that exclusively-opened `stdout` handle.
This closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/6053.
To avoid `check-whitespace` failures when rebasing Git for Windows onto
new Git versions, let's limit that job's scope to downstream commits.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This introduces `git survey` to Git for Windows ahead of upstream for
the express purpose of getting the path-based analysis in the hands of
more folks.
The inspiration of this builtin is
[`git-sizer`](https://github.com/github/git-sizer), but since that
command relies on `git cat-file --batch` to get the contents of objects,
it has limits to how much information it can provide.
This is mostly a rewrite of the `git survey` builtin that was introduced
into the `microsoft/git` fork in microsoft/git#667. That version had a
lot more bells and whistles, including an analysis much closer to what
`git-sizer` provides.
The biggest difference in this version is that this one is focused on
using the path-walk API in order to visit batches of objects based on a
common path. This allows identifying, for instance, the path that is
contributing the most to the on-disk size across all versions at that
path.
For example, here are the top ten paths contributing to my local Git
repository (which includes `microsoft/git` and `gitster/git`):
```
TOP FILES BY DISK SIZE
============================================================================
Path | Count | Disk Size | Inflated Size
-----------------------------------------+-------+-----------+--------------
whats-cooking.txt | 1373 | 11637459 | 37226854
t/helper/test-gvfs-protocol | 2 | 6847105 | 17233072
git-rebase--helper | 1 | 6027849 | 15269664
compat/mingw.c | 6111 | 5194453 | 463466970
t/helper/test-parse-options | 1 | 3420385 | 8807968
t/helper/test-pkt-line | 1 | 3408661 | 8778960
t/helper/test-dump-untracked-cache | 1 | 3408645 | 8780816
t/helper/test-dump-fsmonitor | 1 | 3406639 | 8776656
po/vi.po | 104 | 1376337 | 51441603
po/de.po | 210 | 1360112 | 71198603
```
This kind of analysis has been helpful in identifying the reasons for
growth in a few internal monorepos. Those findings motivated the changes
in #5157 and #5171.
With this early version in Git for Windows, we can expand the reach of
the experimental tool in advance of it being contributed to the upstream
project.
Unfortunately, this will mean that in the next `microsoft/git` rebase,
Jeff Hostetler's version will need to be pulled out since there are
enough conflicts. These conflicts include how tables are stored and
generated, as the version in this PR is slightly more general to allow
for different kinds of data.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is a follow up to #5157 as well as motivated by the RFC in
gitgitgadget/git#1786.
We have ways of walking all objects, but it is focused on visiting a
single commit and then expanding the new trees and blobs reachable from
that commit that have not been visited yet. This means that objects
arrive without any locality based on their path.
Add a new "path walk API" that focuses on walking objects in batches
according to their type and path. This will walk all annotated tags, all
commits, all root trees, and then start a depth-first search among all
paths in the repo to collect trees and blobs in batches.
The most important application for this is being fast-tracked to Git for
Windows: `git pack-objects --path-walk`. This application of the path
walk API discovers the objects to pack via this batched walk, and
automatically groups objects that appear at a common path so they can be
checked for delta comparisons.
This use completely avoids any name-hash collisions (even the collisions
that sometimes occur with the new `--full-name-hash` option) and can be
much faster to compute since the first pass of delta calculations does
not waste time on objects that are unlikely to be diffable.
Some statistics are available in the commit messages.
This is an updated version of gitgitgadget/git#1785, intended for early
consumption into Git for Windows.
The idea here is to add a new `--full-name-hash` option to `git
pack-objects` and `git repack`. This adjusts the name-hash value used
for finding delta bases in such a way that uses the full path name with
a lower likelihood of collisions than the default name-hash algorithm.
In many repositories with name-hash collisions and many versions of
those paths, this can significantly reduce the size of a full repack. It
can also help in certain cases of `git push`, but only if the pack is
already artificially inflated by name-hash collisions; cases that find
"sibling" deltas as better choices become worse with `--full-name-hash`.
Thus, this option is currently recommended for full repacks of large
repos, and on client machines without reachability bitmaps.
Some care is taken to ignore this option when using bitmaps, either
writing bitmaps or using a bitmap walk during reads. The bitmap file
format contains name-hash values, but no way to indicate which function
is used, so compatibility is a concern for bitmaps. Future work could
explore this idea.
After this PR is merged, then the more-involved `--path-walk` option may
be considered.
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>
This topic branch adds support for a more Windows-native user-wide
config file than `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` (or `~/.config/`) will ever be.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch contains a patch that made it into Git for Windows
v2.45.1 but not into Git v2.45.1 (because the latter does not come with
symlink support on Windows).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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.
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>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
headless-git is a git executable without opening a console window. It is
useful when other GUI executables want to call git. We should install it
together with git on Windows.
Signed-off-by: Yuyi Wang <Strawberry_Str@hotmail.com>
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>
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>
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>
Teach MSVC=1 builds to depend on the `git.rc` file so that
the resulting executables have Windows-style resources and
version number information within them.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
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>
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>
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>
The 2.53.0.rc0.windows release candidate had a regression where
writing to stderr from a pre-push hook would error out.
The regression was fixed in 2.53.0.rc1.windows and the test here ensures
that this stays fixed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>
Every once in a while, there are bug reports in Git for Windows' bug
tracker that describe an issue running [inside MSYS2
proper](https://gitforwindows.org/install-inside-msys2-proper), totally
ignoring the big, honking warning on top of [the
page](https://gitforwindows.org/install-inside-msys2-proper) that spells
out clearly that this is an unsupported use case.
At the same time, we cannot easily deflect and say "just use MSYS2
directly" (and leave the "and stop pestering us" out). We cannot do that
because there is only an _MSYS_ `git` package in MSYS2 (i.e. a Git that
uses the quite slow POSIX emulation layer provided by the MSYS2
runtime), but no `mingw-w64-git` package (which would be equivalent in
speed to Git for Windows).
In https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/26470, I am preparing to
change that. As part of that PR, I noticed and fixed a couple of issues
_in `git-for-windows/git` that prevented full support for
`mingw-w64-git` in MSYS2, such as problems with CLANG64 and UCRT64.
While at it, I simplified the entire setup to trust MSYS2's
`MINGW_PREFIX` & related environment variables instead of hard-coding
values like the installation prefix and what `MSYSTEM` to fall back on
if it is unset.
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.
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.
