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René Scharfe
3284b93862 parse-options: disallow negating OPTION_SET_INT 0
An option of type OPTION_SET_INT can be defined to set its variable to
zero.  It's negated variant will do the same, though, which is
confusing.  Several such options were fixed by disabling negation,
changing the value to set or using a different option type:

991c552916 (ls-tree: fix --no-full-name, 2023-07-18)
e12cb98e1e (branch: reject "--no-all" and "--no-remotes" early, 2023-07-18)
68cbb20e73 (show-branch: reject --[no-](topo|date)-order, 2023-07-19)
3821eb6c3d (reset: reject --no-(mixed|soft|hard|merge|keep) option, 2023-07-19)
36f76d2a25 (pack-objects: fix --no-quiet, 2023-07-21)
3a5f308741 (pack-objects: fix --no-keep-true-parents, 2023-07-21)
c95ae3ff9c (describe: fix --no-exact-match, 2023-07-21)
d089a06421 (bundle: use OPT_PASSTHRU_ARGV, 2023-07-29)

Check for such options that allow negation in parse_options_check() and
report them to find future cases quicker.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-08-08 16:55:07 -07:00
Jeff King
cb888bb699 repack: free geometry struct
When the program is ending, we call clear_pack_geometry() to free any
resources in the pack_geometry struct. But the struct itself is
allocated on the heap, and leak-checkers will complain about the
resulting small leak.

This one was marked by Coverity as a "new" leak, though it has existed
since 0fabafd0b9 (builtin/repack.c: add '--geometric' option,
2021-02-22). This might be because recent unrelated changes in the file
confused it about what is new and what is not. But regardless, it is
worth addressing.

We can fix it easily by free-ing the struct. We'll convert our "clear"
function to "free", since the allocation happens in the matching init()
function (though since there is only one call to each, and the struct is
local to this file, it's mostly academic).

Another option would be to put the struct on the stack rather than the
heap. However, this gets tricky, as we check the pointer against NULL in
several places to decide whether we're in geometric mode.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-08-08 16:49:10 -07:00
Jeff King
c016726c2d send-email: avoid creating more than one Term::ReadLine object
Every time git-send-email calls its ask() function to prompt the user,
we call term(), which instantiates a new Term::ReadLine object. But in
v1.46 of Term::ReadLine::Gnu (which provides the Term::ReadLine
interface on some platforms), its constructor refuses to create a second
instance[1]. So on systems with that version of the module, most
git-send-email instances will fail (as we usually prompt for both "to"
and "in-reply-to" unless the user provided them on the command line).

We can fix this by keeping a single instance variable and returning it
for each call to term(). In perl 5.10 and up, we could do that with a
"state" variable. But since we only require 5.008, we'll do it the
old-fashioned way, with a lexical "my" in its own scope.

Note that the tests in t9001 detect this problem as-is, since the
failure mode is for the program to die. But let's also beef up the
"Prompting works" test to check that it correctly handles multiple
inputs (if we had chosen to keep our FakeTerm hack in the previous
commit, then the failure mode would be incorrectly ignoring prompts
after the first).

[1] For discussion of why multiple instances are forbidden, see:
    https://github.com/hirooih/perl-trg/issues/16

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-08-08 16:48:17 -07:00
Jeff King
dfd46bae92 send-email: drop FakeTerm hack
Back in 280242d1cc (send-email: do not barf when Term::ReadLine does not
like your terminal, 2006-07-02), we added a fallback for when
Term::ReadLine's constructor failed: we'd have a FakeTerm object
instead, which would then die if anybody actually tried to call
readline() on it. Since we instantiated the $term variable at program
startup, we needed this workaround to let the program run in modes when
we did not prompt the user.

But later, in f4dc9432fd (send-email: lazily load modules for a big
speedup, 2021-05-28), we started loading Term::ReadLine lazily only when
ask() is called. So at that point we know we're trying to prompt the
user, and we can just die if ReadLine instantiation fails, rather than
making this fake object to lazily delay showing the error.

This should be OK even if there is no tty (e.g., we're in a cron job),
because Term::ReadLine will return a stub object in that case whose "IN"
and "OUT" functions return undef. And since 5906f54e47 (send-email:
don't attempt to prompt if tty is closed, 2009-03-31), we check for that
case and skip prompting.

And we can be sure that FakeTerm was not kicking in for such a
situation, because it has actually been broken since that commit! It
does not define "IN" or "OUT" methods, so perl would barf with an error.
If FakeTerm was in use, we were neither honoring what 5906f54e47 tried
to do, nor producing the readable message that 280242d1cc intended.

So we're better off just dropping FakeTerm entirely, and letting the
error reported by constructing Term::ReadLine through.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-08-08 16:48:15 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
12009a182b t0040: declare non-tab indentation to be okay in this script
By necessity, this script needs to verify that certain Git output
matches expectations, including text indented with spaces instead of
tabs.

Most recently, such a check was introduced in 448abbba63 (short help:
allow multi-line opthelp, 2023-07-18) which is reported by `git diff
--check 448abbba6347^!` as having whitespace issues.

Let's not complain about this because it is intentional.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-08-08 16:47:26 -07:00
Johannes Schindelin
3b87459ca2 Merge 'readme' into HEAD
Add a README.md for GitHub goodness.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
v2.42.0-rc0.windows.1
2023-08-08 12:02:53 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
0cd39ba8ce Merge pull request #2837 from dscho/monitor-component-updates
Start monitoring updates of Git for Windows' component in the open
2023-08-08 12:02:53 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
11ce194765 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:53 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
afaf65bf7e 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:53 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
6d6b6acdb5 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:53 +02:00
Victoria Dye
30c9e08343 Merge pull request #3492 from dscho/ns/batched-fsync
Switch to batched fsync by default
2023-08-08 12:02:53 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
fc794ae83c 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:52 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
afe8f27588 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:52 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
8b486b7544 Merge branch 'busybox-w32'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:52 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
a671a80ab1 Merge pull request #1897 from piscisaureus/symlink-attr
Specify symlink type in .gitattributes
2023-08-08 12:02:52 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
09dd4ea07a 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:52 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
f1601ee2ba 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:52 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
fee170382d Merge branch 'kblees/kb/symlinks' 2023-08-08 12:02:52 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
806af71e3b SECURITY.md: document Git for Windows' policies
This is the recommended way on GitHub to describe policies revolving around
security issues and about supported versions.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:51 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
81ad0530ad Merge branch 'msys2' 2023-08-08 12:02:51 +02:00
Alejandro Barreto
f8d7fd87af Document how $HOME is set on Windows
Git documentation refers to $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME often, but does not specify how or where these values come from on Windows where neither is set by default. The new documentation reflects the behavior of setup_windows_environment() in compat/mingw.c.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Barreto <alejandro.barreto@ni.com>
2023-08-08 12:02:51 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
680b45e9a5 Merge pull request #3817 from mathstuf/name-too-long-advice
clean: suggest using `core.longPaths` if paths are too long to remove
2023-08-08 12:02:51 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
6460b6e2c2 .github: Add configuration for the Sentiment Bot
The sentiment bot will help detect when things get too heated.
Hopefully.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:51 +02:00
Jeff Hostetler
e020596519 Merge branch 'fix-v4-fsmonitor-long-paths' into try-v4-fsmonitor 2023-08-08 12:02:51 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
7cb15cb891 Merge branch 'long-paths' 2023-08-08 12:02:51 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
c0ae710d31 Merge branch 'gitk-and-git-gui-patches'
These are Git for Windows' Git GUI and gitk patches. We will have to
decide at some point what to do about them, but that's a little lower
priority (as Git GUI seems to be unmaintained for the time being, and
the gitk maintainer keeps a very low profile on the Git mailing list,
too).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:51 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
cc2818c3aa Add a GitHub workflow to monitor component updates
Rather than using private IFTTT Applets that send mails to this
maintainer whenever a new version of a Git for Windows component was
released, let's use the power of GitHub workflows to make this process
publicly visible.

This workflow monitors the Atom/RSS feeds, and opens a ticket whenever a
new version was released.

Note: Bash sometimes releases multiple patched versions within a few
minutes of each other (i.e. 5.1p1 through 5.1p4, 5.0p15 and 5.0p16). The
MSYS2 runtime also has a similar system. We can address those patches as
a group, so we shouldn't get multiple issues about them.

Note further: We're not acting on newlib releases, OpenSSL alphas, Perl
release candidates or non-stable Perl releases. There's no need to open
issues about them.

Co-authored-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Victoria Dye
ffbf3d5df7 fsmonitor: reintroduce core.useBuiltinFSMonitor
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>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
216fd49597 reset: reinstate support for the deprecated --stdin option
The `--stdin` option was a well-established paradigm in other commands,
therefore we implemented it in `git reset` for use by Visual Studio.

Unfortunately, upstream Git decided that it is time to introduce
`--pathspec-from-file` instead.

To keep backwards-compatibility for some grace period, we therefore
reinstate the `--stdin` option on top of the `--pathspec-from-file`
option, but mark it firmly as deprecated.

Helped-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Helped-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
5d98fb4c76 Partially un-revert "editor: save and reset terminal after calling EDITOR"
In e3f7e01b50 (Revert "editor: save and reset terminal after calling
EDITOR", 2021-11-22), we reverted the commit wholesale where the
terminal state would be saved and restored before/after calling an
editor.

The reverted commit was intended to fix a problem with Windows Terminal
where simply calling `vi` would cause problems afterwards.

To fix the problem addressed by the revert, but _still_ keep the problem
with Windows Terminal fixed, let's revert the revert, with a twist: we
restrict the save/restore _specifically_ to the case where `vi` (or
`vim`) is called, and do not do the same for any other editor.

This should still catch the majority of the cases, and will bridge the
time until the original patch is re-done in a way that addresses all
concerns.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Neeraj K. Singh
f7d1040dff mingw: do not call xutftowcs_path in mingw_mktemp
The `xutftowcs_path` function canonicalizes absolute paths using GetFullPathNameW.
This canonicalization may change the length of the string (e.g. getting rid of \.\),
which breaks callers that pass the template string in a strbuf and expect the
length of the string to remain the same.

In my particular case, the tmp-objdir code is passing a strbuf to mkdtemp and is
breaking since the strbuf.len is no longer synchronized with strlen(strbuf.buf).

Signed-off-by: Neeraj K. Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
e6c2e96649 mingw: really handle SIGINT
Previously, we did not install any handler for Ctrl+C, but now we really
want to because the MSYS2 runtime learned the trick to call the
ConsoleCtrlHandler when Ctrl+C was pressed.

With this, hitting Ctrl+C while `git log` is running will only terminate
the Git process, but not the pager. This finally matches the behavior on
Linux and on macOS.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Philip Oakley
0f8d6e4a1a Modify the GitHub Pull Request template (to reflect Git for Windows)
Git for Windows accepts pull requests; Core Git does not. Therefore we
need to adjust the template (because it only matches core Git's
project management style, not ours).

Also: direct Git for Windows enhancements to their contributions page,
space out the text for easy reading, and clarify that the mailing list
is plain text, not HTML.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
34b952efe1 mingw: kill child processes in a gentler way
The TerminateProcess() function does not actually leave the child
processes any chance to perform any cleanup operations. This is bad
insofar as Git itself expects its signal handlers to run.

A symptom is e.g. a left-behind .lock file that would not be left behind
if the same operation was run, say, on Linux.

To remedy this situation, we use an obscure trick: we inject a thread
into the process that needs to be killed and to let that thread run the
ExitProcess() function with the desired exit status. Thanks J Wyman for
describing this trick.

The advantage is that the ExitProcess() function lets the atexit
handlers run. While this is still different from what Git expects (i.e.
running a signal handler), in practice Git sets up signal handlers and
atexit handlers that call the same code to clean up after itself.

In case that the gentle method to terminate the process failed, we still
fall back to calling TerminateProcess(), but in that case we now also
make sure that processes spawned by the spawned process are terminated;
TerminateProcess() does not give the spawned process a chance to do so
itself.

Please note that this change only affects how Git for Windows tries to
terminate processes spawned by Git's own executables. Third-party
software that *calls* Git and wants to terminate it *still* need to make
sure to imitate this gentle method, otherwise this patch will not have
any effect.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Brendan Forster
47c2e5d5ae Add an issue template
With improvements by Clive Chan, Adric Norris, Ben Bodenmiller and
Philip Oakley.

Helped-by: Clive Chan <cc@clive.io>
Helped-by: Adric Norris <landstander668@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Ben Bodenmiller <bbodenmiller@hotmail.com>
Helped-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Forster <brendan@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
cc50f8e89f README.md: Add a Windows-specific preamble
Includes touch-ups by 마누엘, Philip Oakley and 孙卓识.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Derrick Stolee
479c16e0b1 CONTRIBUTING.md: add guide for first-time contributors
Getting started contributing to Git can be difficult on a Windows
machine. CONTRIBUTING.md contains a guide to getting started, including
detailed steps for setting up build tools, running tests, and
submitting patches to upstream.

[includes an example by Pratik Karki how to submit v2, v3, v4, etc.]

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
72c7c7c2e1 Modify the Code of Conduct for Git for Windows
The Git project followed suite and added their Code of Conduct, based on
the Contributors' Covenant v1.4.

We edit it slightly to reflect Git for Windows' particulars.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
8eba75c827 Describe Git for Windows' architecture [no ci]
The Git for Windows project has grown quite complex over the years,
certainly much more complex than during the first years where the
`msysgit.git` repository was abusing Git for package management purposes
and the `git/git` fork was called `4msysgit.git`.

Let's describe the status quo in a thorough way.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:50 +02:00
xungeng li
e50c0e25ab 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
ec8a47ca8d 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00
Bert Belder
8f802befc2 Win32: symlink: add test for symlink attribute
To verify that the symlink is resolved correctly, we use the fact that
`git.exe` is a native Win32 program, and that `git.exe config -f <path>`
therefore uses the native symlink resolution.

Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
285a784655 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
8d74ee4af7 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
0d7af1d92f 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
4ea7bbb38a 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
1f4c1ab6c3 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
cc7289deba 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
bca0eb494b 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
75584cde5d 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>
2023-08-08 12:02:49 +02:00