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.
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.
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>
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
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>
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>
These fixes were necessary for Sverre Rabbelier's remote-hg to work,
but for some magic reason they are not necessary for the current
remote-hg. Makes you wonder how that one gets away with it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
As reported in https://lore.kernel.org/git/ZuPKvYP9ZZ2mhb4m@pks.im/,
libcurl v8.10.0 had a regression that was picked up by Git's t5559.30
"large fetch-pack requests can be sent using chunked encoding".
This bug was fixed in libcurl v8.10.1.
Sadly, the macos-13 runner image was updated in the brief window between
these two libcurl versions, breaking each and every CI build, as
reported at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/5159.
This would usually not matter, we would just ignore the failing CI
builds until the macos-13 runner image is rebuilt in a couple of days,
and then the CI builds would succeed again.
However.
As has become the custom, a surprise Git version was released, and now
that Git for Windows wants to follow suit, since Git for Windows has
this custom of trying to never release a version with a failing CI
build, we _must_ work around it.
This patch implements this work-around, basically for the sake of Git
for Windows v2.46.2's CI build.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
In order to be a better Windows citizenship, Git should
save its configuration files on AppData folder. This can
enables git configuration files be replicated between machines
using the same Microsoft account logon which would reduce the
friction of setting up Git on new systems. Therefore, if
%APPDATA%\Git\config exists, we use it; otherwise
$HOME/.config/git/config is used.
Signed-off-by: Ariel Lourenco <ariellourenco@users.noreply.github.com>
