When spawning child processes, we do want them to inherit the standard
handles so that we can talk to them. We do *not* want them to inherit
any other handle, as that would hold a lock to the respective files
(preventing them from being renamed, modified or deleted), and the child
process would not know how to access that handle anyway.
Happily, there is an API to make that happen. It is supported in Windows
Vista and later, which is exactly what we promise to support in Git for
Windows for the time being.
This also means that we lift, at long last, the target Windows version
from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
It would appear that least the Isilon network filesystem (and possibly
other network filesystems, too), report non-standard error values when
trying to access a non-existing directory.
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>
Turns out that it don't work so well on Vista, see
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1742 for details.
According to https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=8873, it
*should* work on Windows Vista and later.
But apparently there are issues on Windows Vista when pipes are
involved. Given that Windows Vista is past its end of life (official
support ended on April 11th, 2017), let's not spend *too* much time on
this issue and just disable the file handle inheritance restriction on
any Windows version earlier than Windows 7.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
By default, CreateProcess() does not inherit any open file handles,
unless the bInheritHandles parameter is set to TRUE. Which we do need to
set because we need to pass in stdin/stdout/stderr to talk to the child
processes. Sadly, this means that all file handles (unless marked via
O_NOINHERIT) are inherited.
This lead to problems in GVFS Git, where a long-running read-object hook
is used to hydrate missing objects, and depending on the circumstances,
might only be called *after* Git opened a file handle.
Ideally, we would not open files without O_NOINHERIT unless *really*
necessary (i.e. when we want to pass the opened file handle as standard
handle into a child process), but apparently it is all-too-easy to
introduce incorrect open() calls: this happened, and prevented updating
a file after the read-object hook was started because the hook still
held a handle on said file.
Happily, there is a solution: as described in the "Old New Thing"
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20111216-00/?p=8873 there
is a way, starting with Windows Vista, that lets us define precisely
which handles should be inherited by the child process.
And since we bumped the minimum Windows version for use with Git for
Windows to Vista with v2.10.1 (i.e. a *long* time ago), we can use this
method. So let's do exactly that.
We need to make sure that the list of handles to inherit does not
contain duplicates; Otherwise CreateProcessW() would fail with
ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT.
While at it, stop setting errno to ENOENT unless it really is the
correct value.
Also, fall back to not limiting handle inheritance under certain error
conditions (e.g. on Windows 7, which is a lot stricter in what handles
you can specify to limit to).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
For some reason, when being called via TortoiseGit the standard handles,
or at least what is returned by _get_osfhandle(0) for standard input,
can take on the value (HANDLE)-2 (which is not a legal value, according
to the documentation).
Even if this value is not documented anywhere, CreateProcess() seems to
work fine without complaints if hStdInput set to this value.
In contrast, the upcoming code to restrict which file handles get
inherited by spawned processes would result in `ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER`
when including such handle values in the list.
To help this, special-case the value (HANDLE)-2 returned by
_get_osfhandle() and replace it with INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, which will
hopefully let the handle inheritance restriction work even when called
from TortoiseGit.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1481
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The vcpkg downloads may not succeed. Warn careful readers of the time out.
A simple retry will usually resolve the issue.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On certain network filesystems (currently encounterd with Isilon, but in
theory more network storage solutions could be causing the same issue),
when the directory in question is missing, `raceproof_create_file()`
fails with an `ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER` instead of an
`ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND`.
Since it is highly unlikely that we produce such an error by mistake
(the parameters we pass are fairly benign), we can be relatively certain
that the directory is missing in this instance. So let's just translate
that error automagically.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1345.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Sanders <spekbukkem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The vcpkg_install batch file depends on the availability of a
working Git on the CMD path. This may not be present if the user
has selected the 'bash only' option during Git-for-Windows install.
Detect and tell the user about their lack of a working Git in the CMD
window.
Fixes#2348.
A separate PR https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/pull/258
now highlights the recommended path setting during install.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Windows' equivalent to "bind mounts", NTFS junction points, can be
unlinked without affecting the mount target. This is clearly what users
expect to happen when they call `git clean -dfx` in a worktree that
contains NTFS junction points: the junction should be removed, and the
target directory of said junction should be left alone (unless it is
inside the worktree).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MSys2's strace facility is very useful for debugging... With this patch,
the bash will be executed through strace if the environment variable
GIT_STRACE_COMMANDS is set, which comes in real handy when investigating
issues in the test suite.
Also support passing a path to a log file via GIT_STRACE_COMMANDS to
force Git to call strace.exe with the `-o <path>` argument, i.e. to log
into a file rather than print the log directly.
That comes in handy when the output would otherwise misinterpreted by a
calling process as part of Git's output.
Note: the values "1", "yes" or "true" are *not* specifying paths, but
tell Git to let strace.exe log directly to the console.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
It seems to be not exactly rare on Windows to install NTFS junction
points (the equivalent of "bind mounts" on Linux/Unix) in worktrees,
e.g. to map some development tools into a subdirectory.
In such a scenario, it is pretty horrible if `git clean -dfx` traverses
into the mapped directory and starts to "clean up".
Let's just not do that. Let's make sure before we traverse into a
directory that it is not a mount point (or junction).
This addresses https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/607
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
From the documentation of said setting:
This boolean will enable fsync() when writing object files.
This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that
orders data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems
that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or
that only journal metadata and not file contents (OS X’s HFS+,
or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
The most common file system on Windows (NTFS) does not guarantee that
order, therefore a sudden loss of power (or any other event causing an
unclean shutdown) would cause corrupt files (i.e. files filled with
NULs). Therefore we need to change the default.
Note that the documentation makes it sound as if this causes really bad
performance. In reality, writing loose objects is something that is done
only rarely, and only a handful of files at a time.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When `interactive.singlekey = true`, we react immediately to keystrokes,
even to Escape sequences (e.g. when pressing a cursor key).
The problem with Escape sequences is that we do not really know when
they are done, and as a heuristic we poll standard input for half a
second to make sure that we got all of it.
While waiting half a second is not asking for a whole lot, it can become
quite annoying over time, therefore with this patch, we read the
terminal capabilities (if available) and extract known Escape sequences
from there, then stop polling immediately when we detected that the user
pressed a key that generated such a known sequence.
This recapitulates the remaining part of b5cc003253 (add -i: ignore
terminal escape sequences, 2011-05-17).
Note: We do *not* query the terminal capabilities directly. That would
either require a lot of platform-specific code, or it would require
linking to a library such as ncurses.
Linking to a library in the built-ins is something we try very hard to
avoid (we even kicked the libcurl dependency to a non-built-in remote
helper, just to shave off a tiny fraction of a second from Git's startup
time). And the platform-specific code would be a maintenance nightmare.
Even worse: in Git for Windows' case, we would need to query MSYS2
pseudo terminals, which `git.exe` simply cannot do (because it is
intentionally *not* an MSYS2 program).
To address this, we simply spawn `infocmp -L -1` and parse its output
(which works even in Git for Windows, because that helper is included in
the end-user facing installations).
This is done only once, as in the Perl version, but it is done only when
the first Escape sequence is encountered, not upon startup of `git add
-i`; This saves on startup time, yet makes reacting to the first Escape
sequence slightly more sluggish. But it allows us to keep the
terminal-related code encapsulated in the `compat/terminal.c` file.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This recapitulates part of b5cc003253 (add -i: ignore terminal escape
sequences, 2011-05-17):
add -i: ignore terminal escape sequences
On the author's terminal, the up-arrow input sequence is ^[[A, and
thus fat-fingering an up-arrow into 'git checkout -p' is quite
dangerous: git-add--interactive.perl will ignore the ^[ and [
characters and happily treat A as "discard everything".
As a band-aid fix, use Term::Cap to get all terminal capabilities.
Then use the heuristic that any capability value that starts with ^[
(i.e., \e in perl) must be a key input sequence. Finally, given an
input that starts with ^[, read more characters until we have read a
full escape sequence, then return that to the caller. We use a
timeout of 0.5 seconds on the subsequent reads to avoid getting stuck
if the user actually input a lone ^[.
Since none of the currently recognized keys start with ^[, the net
result is that the sequence as a whole will be ignored and the help
displayed.
Note that we leave part for later which uses "Term::Cap to get all
terminal capabilities", for several reasons:
1. it is actually not really necessary, as the timeout of 0.5 seconds
should be plenty sufficient to catch Escape sequences,
2. it is cleaner to keep the change to special-case Escape sequences
separate from the change that reads all terminal capabilities to
speed things up, and
3. in practice, relying on the terminal capabilities is a bit overrated,
as the information could be incomplete, or plain wrong. For example,
in this developer's tmux sessions, the terminal capabilities claim
that the "cursor up" sequence is ^[M, but the actual sequence
produced by the "cursor up" key is ^[[A.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Typically, input on the command-line is line-based. It is actually not
really easy to get single characters (or better put: keystrokes).
We provide two implementations here:
- One that handles `/dev/tty` based systems as well as native Windows.
The former uses the `tcsetattr()` function to put the terminal into
"raw mode", which allows us to read individual keystrokes, one by one.
The latter uses `stty.exe` to do the same, falling back to direct
Win32 Console access.
Thanks to the refactoring leading up to this commit, this is a single
function, with the platform-specific details hidden away in
conditionally-compiled code blocks.
- A fall-back which simply punts and reads back an entire line.
Note that the function writes the keystroke into an `strbuf` rather than
a `char`, in preparation for reading Escape sequences (e.g. when the
user hit an arrow key). This is also required for UTF-8 sequences in
case the keystroke corresponds to a non-ASCII letter.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows' Git Bash runs in MinTTY by default, which does not have
a Win32 Console instance, but uses MSYS2 pseudo terminals instead.
This is a problem, as Git for Windows does not want to use the MSYS2
emulation layer for Git itself, and therefore has no direct way to
interact with that pseudo terminal.
As a workaround, use the `stty` utility (which is included in Git for
Windows, and which *is* an MSYS2 program, so it knows how to deal with
the pseudo terminal).
Note: If Git runs in a regular CMD or PowerShell window, there *is* a
regular Win32 Console to work with. This is not a problem for the MSYS2
`stty`: it copes with this scenario just fine.
Also note that we introduce support for more bits than would be
necessary for a mere `disable_echo()` here, in preparation for the
upcoming `enable_non_canonical()` function.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We are about to introduce the function `enable_non_canonical()`, which
shares almost the complete code with `disable_echo()`.
Let's prepare for that, by refactoring out that shared code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When debugging Git, the criss-cross spawning of processes can make
things quite a bit difficult, especially when a Unix shell script is
thrown in the mix that calls a `git.exe` that then segfaults.
To help debugging such things, we introduce the `open_in_gdb()` function
which can be called at a code location where the segfault happens (or as
close as one can get); This will open a new MinTTY window with a GDB
that already attached to the current process.
Inspired by Derrick Stolee.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When specifying an absolute path without a drive prefix, we convert that
path internally. Let's make sure that we handle that case properly, too
;-)
This fixes the command
git clone https://github.com/git-for-windows/git \G4W
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
CI updates.
* js/azure-pipelines-msvc:
ci: also build and test with MS Visual Studio on Azure Pipelines
ci: really use shallow clones on Azure Pipelines
tests: let --immediate and --write-junit-xml play well together
test-tool run-command: learn to run (parts of) the testsuite
vcxproj: include more generated files
vcxproj: only copy `git-remote-http.exe` once it was built
msvc: work around a bug in GetEnvironmentVariable()
msvc: handle DEVELOPER=1
msvc: ignore some libraries when linking
compat/win32/path-utils.h: add #include guards
winansi: use FLEX_ARRAY to avoid compiler warning
msvc: avoid using minus operator on unsigned types
push: do not pretend to return `int` from `die_push_simple()`
In previous patches, extern was mechanically removed from function
declarations without care to formatting, causing parameter lists to be
misaligned. Manually format changed sections such that the parameter
lists are realigned.
Viewing this patch with 'git diff -w' should produce no output.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The rename detection logic sorts a list of rename source candidates
by similarity to pick the best candidate, which means that a tie
between sources with the same similarity is broken by the original
location in the original candidate list (which is sorted by path).
Force the sorting by similarity done with a stable sort, which is
not promised by system supplied qsort(3), to ensure consistent
results across platforms.
* js/diff-rename-force-stable-sort:
diffcore_rename(): use a stable sort
Move git_sort(), a stable sort, into into libgit.a
The return value of that function is 0 both for variables that are
unset, as well as for variables whose values are empty. To discern those
two cases, one has to call `GetLastError()`, whose return value is
`ERROR_ENVVAR_NOT_FOUND` and `ERROR_SUCCESS`, respectively.
Except that it is not actually set to `ERROR_SUCCESS` in the latter
case, apparently, but the last error value seems to be simply unchanged.
To work around this, let's just re-set the last error value just before
inspecting the environment variable.
This fixes a problem that triggers failures in t3301-notes.sh (where we
try to override config settings by passing empty values for certain
environment variables).
This problem is hidden in the MINGW build by the fact that older
MSVC runtimes (such as the one used by MINGW builds) have a `calloc()`
that re-sets the last error value in case of success, while newer
runtimes set the error value only if `NULL` is returned by that
function.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We frequently build Git using the `DEVELOPER=1` make setting as a
shortcut to enable all kinds of more stringent compiler warnings.
Those compiler warnings are relatively specific to GCC, though, so let's
try our best to translate them to the equivalent options to pass to MS
Visual C++'s `cl.exe`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To build with MSVC, we "translate" GCC options to MSVC options, and part
of those options refer to the libraries to link into the final
executable. Currently, this part looks somewhat like this on Windows:
-lcurl -lnghttp2 -lidn2 -lssl -lcrypto -lssl -lcrypto -lgdi32
-lcrypt32 -lwldap32 -lz -lws2_32 -lexpat
Some of those are direct dependencies (such as curl and ssl) and others
are indirect (nghttp2 and idn2, for example, are dependencies of curl,
but need to be linked in for reasons).
We already handle the direct dependencies, e.g. `-liconv` is already
handled as adding `libiconv.lib` to the list of libraries to link
against.
Let's just ignore the remaining `-l*` options so that MSVC does not have
to warn us that it ignored e.g. the `/lnghttp2` option. We do that by
extending the clause that already "eats" the `-R*` options to also eat
the `-l*` options.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This adds the common guards that allow headers to be #include'd multiple
times.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
MSVC would complain thusly:
C4200: nonstandard extension used: zero-sized array in struct/union
Let's just use the `FLEX_ARRAY` constant that we introduced for exactly
this type of scenario.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `qsort()` function is not guaranteed to be stable, i.e. it does not
promise to maintain the order of items it is told to consider equal. In
contrast, the `git_sort()` function we carry in `compat/qsort.c` _is_
stable, by virtue of implementing a merge sort algorithm.
In preparation for using a stable sort in Git's rename detection, move
the stable sort into `libgit.a` so that it is compiled in
unconditionally, and rename it to `git_stable_qsort()`.
Note: this also makes the hack obsolete that was introduced in
fe21c6b285 (mingw: reencode environment variables on the fly (UTF-16
<-> UTF-8), 2018-10-30), where we included `compat/qsort.c` directly in
`compat/mingw.c` to use the stable sort.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 554544276a (*.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using
spatch, 2019-04-29), we removed externs from function declarations using
spatch but we intentionally excluded files under compat/ since some are
directly copied from an upstream and we should avoid churning them so
that manually merging future updates will be simpler.
In the last commit, we determined the files which taken from an upstream
so we can exclude them and run spatch on the remainder.
This was the Coccinelle patch used:
@@
type T;
identifier f;
@@
- extern
T f(...);
and it was run with:
$ git ls-files compat/\*\*.{c,h} |
xargs spatch --sp-file contrib/coccinelle/noextern.cocci --in-place
$ git checkout -- \
compat/regex/ \
compat/inet_ntop.c \
compat/inet_pton.c \
compat/nedmalloc/ \
compat/obstack.{c,h} \
compat/poll/
Coccinelle has some trouble dealing with `__attribute__` and varargs so
we ran the following to ensure that no remaining changes were left
behind:
$ git ls-files compat/\*\*.{c,h} |
xargs sed -i'' -e 's/^\(\s*\)extern \([^(]*([^*]\)/\1\2/'
$ git checkout -- \
compat/regex/ \
compat/inet_ntop.c \
compat/inet_pton.c \
compat/nedmalloc/ \
compat/obstack.{c,h} \
compat/poll/
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After running Coccinelle on all sources inside compat/ that were created
by us[1], it was found that compat/mingw.c violated an array.cocci rule
in two places and, thus, a patch was generated. Apply this patch so that
all compat/ sources created by us follows all cocci rules.
[1]: Do not run Coccinelle on files that are taken from some upstream
because in case we need to pull updates from them, we would like to have
diverged as little as possible in order to make merging updates simpler.
The following sources were determined to have been taken from some
upstream:
* compat/regex/
* compat/inet_ntop.c
* compat/inet_pton.c
* compat/nedmalloc/
* compat/obstack.{c,h}
* compat/poll/
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If Git were installed in a path containing non-ASCII characters,
commands such as `git am` and `git submodule`, which are implemented as
externals, would fail to launch with the following error:
> fatal: 'am' appears to be a git command, but we were not
> able to execute it. Maybe git-am is broken?
This was due to lookup_prog not being Unicode-aware. It was somehow
missed in 85faec9d3a (Win32: Unicode file name support (except dirent),
2012-03-15).
Note that the only problem in this function was calling
`GetFileAttributes()` instead of `GetFileAttributesW()`. The calls to
`access()` were fine because `access()` is a macro which resolves to
`mingw_access()`, which already handles Unicode correctly. But
`lookup_prog()` was changed to use `_waccess()` directly so that we only
convert the path to UTF-16 once.
To make things work correctly, we have to maintain UTF-8 and UTF-16
versions in tandem in `lookup_prog()`.
Signed-off-by: Adam Roben <adam@roben.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Compilation fix.
* rs/nedalloc-fixlets:
nedmalloc: avoid compiler warning about unused value
nedmalloc: do assignments only after the declaration section
Cast the evaluated value of the macro INITIAL_LOCK to void to instruct
the compiler that we're not interested in said value nor the following
warning:
In file included from compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c:63:
compat/nedmalloc/malloc.c.h: In function ‘init_user_mstate’:
compat/nedmalloc/malloc.c.h:1706:62: error: right-hand operand of comma expression has no effect [-Werror=unused-value]
1706 | #define INITIAL_LOCK(sl) (memset(sl, 0, sizeof(MLOCK_T)), 0)
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
compat/nedmalloc/malloc.c.h:5020:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘INITIAL_LOCK’
5020 | INITIAL_LOCK(&m->mutex);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Avoid the following compiler warning:
In file included from compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c:63:
compat/nedmalloc/malloc.c.h: In function ‘pthread_release_lock’:
compat/nedmalloc/malloc.c.h:1759:5: error: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code [-Werror=declaration-after-statement]
1759 | volatile unsigned int* lp = &sl->l;
| ^~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Support building Git with Visual Studio
The bits about .git/branches/* have been dropped from the series.
We may want to drop the support for it, but until that happens, the
tests should rely on the existence of the support to pass.
* js/visual-studio: (23 commits)
git: avoid calling aliased builtins via their dashed form
bin-wrappers: append `.exe` to target paths if necessary
.gitignore: ignore Visual Studio's temporary/generated files
.gitignore: touch up the entries regarding Visual Studio
vcxproj: also link-or-copy builtins
msvc: add a Makefile target to pre-generate the Visual Studio solution
contrib/buildsystems: add a backend for modern Visual Studio versions
contrib/buildsystems: handle options starting with a slash
contrib/buildsystems: also handle -lexpat
contrib/buildsystems: handle libiconv, too
contrib/buildsystems: handle the curl library option
contrib/buildsystems: error out on unknown option
contrib/buildsystems: optionally capture the dry-run in a file
contrib/buildsystems: redirect errors of the dry run into a log file
contrib/buildsystems: ignore gettext stuff
contrib/buildsystems: handle quoted spaces in filenames
contrib/buildsystems: fix misleading error message
contrib/buildsystems: ignore irrelevant files in Generators/
contrib/buildsystems: ignore invalidcontinue.obj
Vcproj.pm: urlencode '<' and '>' when generating VC projects
...
The entire idea of generating the VS solution makes only sense if we
generate it via Continuous Integration; otherwise potential users would
still have to download the entire Git for Windows SDK.
If we pre-generate the Visual Studio solution, Git can be built entirely
within Visual Studio, and the test scripts can be run in a regular Git
for Windows (e.g. the Portable Git flavor, which does not include a full
GCC toolchain and therefore weighs only about a tenth of Git for
Windows' SDK).
So let's just add a target in the Makefile that can be used to generate
said solution; The generated files will then be committed so that they
can be pushed to a branch ready to check out by Visual Studio users.
To make things even more useful, we also generate and commit other files
that are required to run the test suite, such as templates and
bin-wrappers: with this, developers can run the test suite in a regular
Git Bash after building the solution in Visual Studio.
Note: for this build target, we do not actually need to initialize the
`vcpkg` system, so we don't.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On some older Windows versions (e.g. Windows 7), the CreateProcessW()
function does not really support spaces in its first argument,
lpApplicationName. But it supports passing NULL as lpApplicationName,
which makes it figure out the application from the (possibly quoted)
first argument of lpCommandLine.
Let's use that trick (if we are certain that the first argument matches
the executable's path) to support launching programs whose path contains
spaces.
We will abuse the test-fake-ssh.exe helper to verify that this works and
does not regress.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/692
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
