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Johannes Schindelin
c19c35631b vcxproj: handle GUI programs, too
So far, we only built Console programs, but we are about to introduce a
program that targets the Windows subsystem (i.e. it is a so-called "GUI"
program).

Let's handle this preemptively in the script that generates the Visual
Studio files.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-14 20:08:46 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6a3c6c2130 vcxproj: ignore -fno-stack-protector and -fno-common
An upcoming commit will introduce those compile options; MSVC does not
understand them, so let's suppress them when generating the Visual
Studio project files.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-14 20:08:45 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
f1fa4a8273 vcxproj: handle resource files, too
On Windows, we also compile a "resource" file, which is similar to
source code, but contains metadata (such as the program version).

So far, we did not compile it in `MSVC` mode, only when compiling Git
for Windows with the GNU C Compiler.

In preparation for including it also when compiling with MS Visual C,
let's teach our `vcxproj` generator to handle those sort of files, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-14 20:08:45 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
1ff138c9ed buildsystems: remove duplicate clause
This seems to have been there since 259d87c354 (Add scripts to
generate projects for other buildsystems (MSVC vcproj, QMake),
2009-09-16), i.e. since the beginning of that file.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-14 20:08:45 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
dc06abbf42 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>
2023-11-14 20:08:45 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
7cceeac633 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>
2023-11-14 20:08:45 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
79896dca3f config.mak.uname: add git.rc to MSVC builds
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>
2023-11-14 20:08:45 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
767aa5667b vcbuild: add support for compiling Windows resource files
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>
2023-11-14 20:08:45 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
b86c726031 Makefile: clean up .ilk files when MSVC=1
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
2023-11-14 20:08:45 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
83c85319d6 clink.pl: fix libexpatd.lib link error when using MSVC
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>
2023-11-14 20:08:45 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
57ca58aa25 Merge branch 'dscho-avoid-d-f-conflict-in-vs-master'
Merge this early to resolve merge conflicts early.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-14 20:08:45 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
af42f050fb t5505/t5516: fix white-space around redirectors
The convention in Git project's shell scripts is to have white-space
_before_, but not _after_ the `>` (or `<`).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-14 20:08:44 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
b1ec581f60 t5505/t5516: allow running without .git/branches/ in the templates
When we commit the template directory as part of `make vcxproj`, the
`branches/` directory is not actually commited, as it is empty.

Two tests were not prepared for that situation.

This developer tried to get rid of the support for `.git/branches/` a
long time ago, but that effort did not bear fruit, so the best we can do
is work around in these here tests.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-14 20:08:44 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
363307d9ed vcxproj: unclash project directories with build outputs
It already caused problems with the test suite that the directory
containing `git.vcxproj` is called the same as the Git executable
without its file extension: `./git` is ambiguous, it could refer both to
the directory `git/` as well as to `git.exe`.

Now there is one more problem: when our GitHub workflow runs on the
`vs/master` branch, it fails in all but the Windows builds, as they want
to write the file `git` but there is already a directory in the way.

Let's just go ahead and append `.proj` to all of those directories, e.g.
`git.proj/` instead of `git/`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-14 20:08:44 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
91a2228b6e 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>
2023-11-14 20:08:43 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
ace6eb2a75 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>
2023-11-14 20:08:43 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
92a1845acd mingw: ensure valid CTYPE
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>
2023-11-14 20:08:43 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
9ca77e6ea2 Merge branch 'safe-PATH-lookup-in-gitk-on-Windows'
This topic branch extends the protections introduced for Git GUI's
CVE-2022-41953 to cover `gitk`, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-14 20:08:40 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
9da1500d83 Start the merging-rebase to v2.43.0-rc2
This commit starts the rebase of 981cca4231 to cdb21cf6e61
2023-11-14 20:08:39 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
99ee7712af gitk(Windows): avoid inadvertently calling executables in the worktree
Just like CVE-2022-41953 for Git GUI, there exists a vulnerability of
`gitk` where it looks for `taskkill.exe` in the current directory before
searching `PATH`.

Note that the many `exec git` calls are unaffected, due to an obscure
quirk in Tcl's `exec` function. Typically, `git.exe` lives next to
`wish.exe` (i.e. the program that is run to execute `gitk` or Git GUI)
in Git for Windows, and that is the saving grace for `git.exe because
`exec` searches the directory where `wish.exe` lives even before the
current directory, according to
https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl/TclCmd/exec.htm#M24:

	If a directory name was not specified as part of the application
	name, the following directories are automatically searched in
	order when attempting to locate the application:

	    The directory from which the Tcl executable was loaded.

	    The current directory.

	    The Windows 32-bit system directory.

	    The Windows home directory.

	    The directories listed in the path.

The same is not true, however, for `taskkill.exe`: it lives in the
Windows system directory (never mind the 32-bit, Tcl's documentation is
outdated on that point, it really means `C:\Windows\system32`).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-14 20:08:39 +01:00
Junio C Hamano
cfb8a6e9a9 Git 2.43-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-14 15:14:45 +09:00
Elijah Newren
e0939bec27 RelNotes: minor wording fixes in 2.43.0 release notes
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-11-12 09:59:28 +09:00
Johannes Schindelin
42fe92ca00 Merge 'readme' into HEAD
Add a README.md for GitHub goodness.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
v2.43.0-rc1.windows.1
2023-11-08 18:37:08 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
ed1a3f3153 Merge pull request #2837 from dscho/monitor-component-updates
Start monitoring updates of Git for Windows' component in the open
2023-11-08 18:37:08 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
68b27fcecb 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>
2023-11-08 18:37:08 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
622589f3ff 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>
2023-11-08 18:37:08 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
ac3a32f330 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>
2023-11-08 18:37:07 +01:00
Victoria Dye
41d2a2bcb1 Merge pull request #3492 from dscho/ns/batched-fsync
Switch to batched fsync by default
2023-11-08 18:37:07 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
f876677c4e 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>
2023-11-08 18:37:07 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
c4c85a64ad 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>
2023-11-08 18:37:07 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6fdb58cd4b Merge branch 'busybox-w32'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-08 18:37:07 +01:00
xungeng li
9e340fa162 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>
2023-11-08 18:37:04 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
3511db2249 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>
2023-11-08 18:37:04 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
43f79abe3e 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>
2023-11-08 18:37:04 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
0a2b88b376 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>
2023-11-08 18:37:04 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6d6b575469 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>
2023-11-08 18:37:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
059cf2f2b0 t5532: workaround for BusyBox on Windows
While it may seem super convenient to some old Unix hands to simpy
require Perl to be available when running the test suite, this is a
major hassle on Windows, where we want to verify that Perl is not,
actually, required in a NO_PERL build.

As a super ugly workaround, we "install" a script into /usr/bin/perl
reading like this:

	#!/bin/sh

	# We'd much rather avoid requiring Perl altogether when testing
	# an installed Git. Oh well, that's why we cannot have nice
	# things.
	exec c:/git-sdk-64/usr/bin/perl.exe "$@"

The problem with that is that BusyBox assumes that the #! line in a
script refers to an executable, not to a script. So when it encounters
the line #!/usr/bin/perl in t5532's proxy-get-cmd, it barfs.

Let's help this situation by simply executing the Perl script with the
"interpreter" specified explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-08 18:37:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
9f62196ce5 t5003: use binary file from t/lib-diff/
At some stage, t5003-archive-zip wants to add a file that is not ASCII.
To that end, it uses /bin/sh. But that file may actually not exist (it
is too easy to forget that not all the world is Unix/Linux...)! Besides,
we already have perfectly fine binary files intended for use solely by
the tests. So let's use one of them instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-08 18:37:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
e13ce0b1d2 test-lib: add BUSYBOX prerequisite
When running with BusyBox, we will want to avoid calling executables on
the PATH that are implemented in BusyBox itself.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-08 18:37:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
3b040ca11f tests (mingw): remove Bash-specific pwd option
The -W option is only understood by MSYS2 Bash's pwd command. We already
make sure to override `pwd` by `builtin pwd -W` for MINGW, so let's not
double the effort here.

This will also help when switching the shell to another one (such as
BusyBox' ash) whose pwd does *not* understand the -W option.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-08 18:37:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
fa5a585192 mingw: only use Bash-ism builtin pwd -W when available
Traditionally, Git for Windows' SDK uses Bash as its default shell.
However, other Unix shells are available, too. Most notably, the Win32
port of BusyBox comes with `ash` whose `pwd` command already prints
Windows paths as Git for Windows wants them, while there is not even a
`builtin` command.

Therefore, let's be careful not to override `pwd` unless we know that
the `builtin` command is available.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-08 18:37:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
479fb197b9 tests: use the correct path separator with BusyBox
BusyBox-w32 is a true Win32 application, i.e. it does not come with a
POSIX emulation layer.

That also means that it does *not* use the Unix convention of separating
the entries in the PATH variable using colons, but semicolons.

However, there are also BusyBox ports to Windows which use a POSIX
emulation layer such as Cygwin's or MSYS2's runtime, i.e. using colons
as PATH separators.

As a tell-tale, let's use the presence of semicolons in the PATH
variable: on Unix, it is highly unlikely that it contains semicolons,
and on Windows (without POSIX emulation), it is virtually guaranteed, as
everybody should have both $SYSTEMROOT and $SYSTEMROOT/system32 in their
PATH.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-08 18:37:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
85de4c8b99 tests: only override sort & find if there are usable ones in /usr/bin/
The idea is to allow running the test suite on MinGit with BusyBox
installed in /mingw64/bin/sh.exe. In that case, we will want to exclude
sort & find (and other Unix utilities) from being bundled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-08 18:37:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
d4972a215a tests: move test PNGs into t/lib-diff/
We already have a directory where we store files intended for use by
multiple test scripts. The same directory is a better home for the
test-binary-*.png files than t/.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-11-08 18:37:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
170e12e71a Merge pull request #1897 from piscisaureus/symlink-attr
Specify symlink type in .gitattributes
2023-11-08 18:24:13 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
28ee6aaf7d 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>
2023-11-08 18:24:13 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
4ef411d749 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>
2023-11-08 18:24:13 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
f1208888ae Merge branch 'kblees/kb/symlinks' 2023-11-08 18:24:12 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
84c6117ae3 Merge branch 'msys2' 2023-11-08 18:24:12 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
5ad56ab923 Merge pull request #3817 from mathstuf/name-too-long-advice
clean: suggest using `core.longPaths` if paths are too long to remove
2023-11-08 18:24:12 +01:00