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>
Make fscache_enabled() function public rather than static.
Remove unneeded fscache_is_enabled() function.
Change is_fscache_enabled() macro to call fscache_enabled().
is_fscache_enabled() now takes a pathname so that the answer
is more precise and mean "is fscache enabled for this pathname",
since fscache only stores repo-relative paths and not absolute
paths, we can avoid attempting lookups for absolute paths.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Dependencies such as cURL and OpenSSL are necessary to build and run
Git. Previously, we obtained those dependencies by fetching NuGet
packages.
However, it is notoriously hard to keep NuGet packages of C/C++
libraries up-to-date, as the toolsets for different Visual Studio
versions are different, and the NuGet packages would have to ship them
all.
That is the reason why the NuGet packages we use are quite old, and even
insecure in the case of cURL and OpenSSL (the versions contain known
security flaws that have been addressed by later versions for which no
NuGet packages are available).
The better way to handle this situation is to use the vcpkg system:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg
The idea is that a single Git repository contains enough supporting
files to build up-to-date versions of a large number of Open Source
libraries on demand, including cURL and OpenSSL.
We integrate this system via four new .bat files to
1) initialize the vcpkg system,
2) build the packages,
4) set up Git's Makefile system to find the build artifacts, and
3) copy the artifacts into the top-level directory
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Teach read_directory_recursive() and add_excludes() to
be aware of optional fscache and avoid trying to open()
and fstat() non-existant ".gitignore" files in every
directory in the worktree.
The current code in add_excludes() calls open() and then
fstat() for a ".gitignore" file in each directory present
in the worktree. Change that when fscache is enabled to
call lstat() first and if present, call open().
This seems backwards because both lstat needs to do more
work than fstat. But when fscache is enabled, fscache will
already know if the .gitignore file exists and can completely
avoid the IO calls. This works because of the lstat diversion
to mingw_lstat when fscache is enabled.
This reduced status times on a 350K file enlistment of the
Windows repo on a NVMe SSD by 0.25 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
It was observed that the current implementation of of get_proc_addr()
fails to load the kernel32.dll with code ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER.
Probably the reason is that kernel32.dll is already loaded. The
behavior was seen at Windows SP1, both 32bit and 64bit. Probably it
would behave same way in some or all other Windows versions.
This breaks all usages of "clone --local", including the automatic
tests where they call it.
The function CreateHardLink is available in all supported Windows
versions (since Windows XP), so there is no more need to resolve it
in runtime.
Signed-off-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Toolset v120 corresponds to Visual Studio 2013. We already used
dependencies that were hardcoded to v140 (i.e. Visual Studio 2015), so
let's just remove the cruft.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We have this loop where we try to remove the read-only attribute when
rename() fails and try again. If it fails again, let's not try to remove
the read-only attribute and try *again*.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1299
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Teach the top-level git Makefile to use whatever VS compiler
tool chain is installed on the system.
When building git from the command line in a git-sdk BASH
window with MAKE, the shell environment has environment
variables for GCC tools, but not MSVC tools. MSVC bindings
are only avaliable from the various "VcVarsAll.bat" scripts
run by the "Developer Command Prompt" shortcuts.
Add compat/vcbuild/find_vs_env.bat to the Makefile. It
uses the various "VcVarsAll.bat" scripts in a background
Developer Command Prompt process to compute the proper
environment variables and publish them for use by the Makefile.
[jes: fixed typos, used %SystemRoot% instead of C:\WINDOWS]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Win32 CONDITION_VARIABLE has better performance and is easier to
maintain.
Since CONDITION_VARIABLE is not available in Windows XP and below,
old implementation of pthread_cond_t is kept under define guard
'GIT_WIN_XP_SUPPORT'. To enable old implementation, build with
make CFLAGS="-DGIT_WIN_XP_SUPPORT".
Signed-off-by: Loo Rong Jie <loorongjie@gmail.com>
fast-forwarded.
BusyBox comes with a ton of applets ("applet" being the identical
concept to Git's "builtins"). And similar to Git's builtins, the applets
can be called via `busybox <command>`, or the BusyBox executable can be
copied/hard-linked to the command name.
The similarities do not end here. Just as with Git's builtins, it is
problematic that BusyBox' hard-linked applets cannot easily be put into
a .zip file: .zip archives have no concept of hard-links and therefore
would store identical copies (and also extract identical copies,
"inflating" the archive unnecessarily).
To counteract that issue, MinGit already ships without hard-linked
copies of the builtins, and the plan is to do the same with BusyBox'
applets: simply ship busybox.exe as single executable, without
hard-linked applets.
To accommodate that, Git is being taught by this commit a very special
trick, exploiting the fact that it is possible to call an executable
with a command-line whose argv[0] is different from the executable's
name: when `sh` is to be spawned, and no `sh` is found in the PATH, but
busybox.exe is, use that executable (with unchanged argv).
Likewise, if any executable to be spawned is not on the PATH, but
busybox.exe is found, parse the output of `busybox.exe --help` to find
out what applets are included, and if the command matches an included
applet name, use busybox.exe to execute it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The main idea of this patch is that even if we have to look up the
absolute path of the script, if only the basename was specified as
argv[0], then we should use that basename on the command line, too, not
the absolute path.
This patch will also help with the upcoming patch where we automatically
substitute "sh ..." by "busybox sh ..." if "sh" is not in the PATH but
"busybox" is: we will do that by substituting the actual executable, but
still keep prepending "sh" to the command line.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
It gets a bit silly to add the commands to the name of the test script,
so let's just rename it while we're testing more UNC stuff.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The MSYS2 runtime does its best to emulate the command-line wildcard
expansion and de-quoting which would be performed by the calling Unix
shell on Unix systems.
Those Unix shell quoting rules differ from the quoting rules applying to
Windows' cmd and Powershell, making it a little awkward to quote
command-line parameters properly when spawning other processes.
In particular, git.exe passes arguments to subprocesses that are *not*
intended to be interpreted as wildcards, and if they contain
backslashes, those are not to be interpreted as escape characters, e.g.
when passing Windows paths.
Note: this is only a problem when calling MSYS2 executables, not when
calling MINGW executables such as git.exe. However, we do call MSYS2
executables frequently, most notably when setting the use_shell flag in
the child_process structure.
There is no elegant way to determine whether the .exe file to be
executed is an MSYS2 program or a MINGW one. But since the use case of
passing a command line through the shell is so prevalent, we need to
work around this issue at least when executing sh.exe.
Let's introduce an ugly, hard-coded test whether argv[0] is "sh", and
whether it refers to the MSYS2 Bash, to determine whether we need to
quote the arguments differently than usual.
That still does not fix the issue completely, but at least it is
something.
Incidentally, this also fixes the problem where `git clone \\server\repo`
failed due to incorrect handling of the backslashes when handing the path
to the git-upload-pack process.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
With Windows 10 Build 14972 in Developer Mode, a new flag is supported
by CreateSymbolicLink() to create symbolic links even when running
outside of an elevated session (which was previously required).
This new flag is called SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE and
has the numeric value 0x02.
Previous Windows 10 versions will not understand that flag and return an
ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER, therefore we have to be careful to try passing
that flag only when the build number indicates that it is supported.
For more information about the new flag, see this blog post:
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/
This patch is loosely based on the patch submitted by Samuel D. Leslie
as https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/1184.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows' MSYS2 runtime was just adjusted to kill processes
gently, by injecting a thread that calls ExitProcess(). In case of
signals (such as when handling Ctrl+C in a MinTTY window), the exit code
is 128 + sign_no, as expected by Git's source code.
However, as there is no POSIX signal handling on Windows, no signal
handlers are called. Instead, functions registered via atexit() are
called. We work around that by testing the exit code explicitly.
This fixes the Git for Windows side of the bug where interrupting `git
clone https://...` would send the spawned-off `git remote-https` process
into the background instead of interrupting it, i.e. the clone would
continue and its progress would be reported mercilessly to the console
window without the user being able to do anything about it (short of
firing up the task manager and killing the appropriate task manually).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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>
We newly handle isatty() by special-casing the stdin/stdout/stderr file
descriptors, caching the return value. However, we missed the case where
dup2() overrides the respective file descriptor.
That poses a problem e.g. where the `show` builtin asks for a pager very
early, the `setup_pager()` function sets the pager depending on the
return value of `isatty()` and then redirects stdout. Subsequently,
`cmd_log_init_finish()` calls `setup_pager()` *again*. What should
happen now is that `isatty()` reports that stdout is *not* a TTY and
consequently stdout should be left alone.
Let's override dup2() to handle this appropriately.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1077
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
A change between versions 2.4.1 and 2.6.0 of the MSYS2 runtime modified
how Cygwin's runtime (and hence Git for Windows' MSYS2 runtime
derivative) handles locales: d16a56306d (Consolidate wctomb/mbtowc calls
for POSIX-1.2008, 2016-07-20).
An unintended side-effect is that "cold-calling" into the POSIX
emulation will start with a locale based on the current code page,
something that Git for Windows is very ill-prepared for, as it expects
to be able to pass a command-line containing non-ASCII characters to the
shell without having those characters munged.
One symptom of this behavior: when `git clone` or `git fetch` shell out
to call `git-upload-pack` with a path that contains non-ASCII
characters, the shell tried to interpret the entire command-line
(including command-line parameters) as executable path, which obviously
must fail.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1036
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch teaches the project generator to generate a Visual
Studio solution, ready to be opened in Visual Studio 2010 or later.
The idea, of course, is to let some automatic build job generate and
commit the project files with
make MSVC=1 vcxproj
and then (force-)push to a special-purpose branch.
The major part of this branch thicket concerns itself not only with
generating the Visual Studio project files, but making sure that the
user can then run the test suite from a regular Git Bash (i.e. *not*
requiring a Git for Windows SDK), e.g. by running
cd t
prove --timer --jobs 15 ./t[0-9]*.sh
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch works around an out-of-memory bug when the user
specified a format via --date=format:<format> that strftime() does
not like.
Reported by Stefan Naewe.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This branch introduces support for reading the "Windows-wide" Git
configuration from `%PROGRAMDATA%\Git\config`. As these settings are
intended to be shared between *all* Git-related software, that config
file takes an even lower precedence than `$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig`.
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>
Teach FSCACHE to remember "not found" directories.
This is a performance optimization.
FSCACHE is a performance optimization available for Windows. It
intercepts Posix-style lstat() calls into an in-memory directory
using FindFirst/FindNext. It improves performance on Windows by
catching the first lstat() call in a directory, using FindFirst/
FindNext to read the list of files (and attribute data) for the
entire directory into the cache, and short-cut subsequent lstat()
calls in the same directory. This gives a major performance
boost on Windows.
However, it does not remember "not found" directories. When STATUS
runs and there are missing directories, the lstat() interception
fails to find the parent directory and simply return ENOENT for the
file -- it does not remember that the FindFirst on the directory
failed. Thus subsequent lstat() calls in the same directory, each
re-attempt the FindFirst. This completely defeats any performance
gains.
This can be seen by doing a sparse-checkout on a large repo and
then doing a read-tree to reset the skip-worktree bits and then
running status.
This change reduced status times for my very large repo by 60%.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This fixes the compilation, actually, as we still did not make the jump to
post-Windows XP completely: we still compile with _WIN32_WINNT set to
0x0502 (which corresponds to Windows Server 2003 and is technically
greater than Windows XP's 0x0501).
However, GetTickCount64() is only available starting with Windows
Vista/Windows Server 2008.
Let's just lazy-load the function, which should also help Git for Windows
contributors who want to reinstate Windows XP support.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
For regular debugging, it is pretty helpful when a debug assertion in a
running application triggers a window that offers to start the debugger.
However, when running the test suite, it is not so helpful, in
particular when the debug assertions are then suppressed anyway because
we disable the invalid parameter checking (via invalidcontinue.obj, see
the comment in config.mak.uname about that object for more information).
So let's simply disable that window in Debug Mode (it is already
disabled in Release Mode).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
From Visual Studio 2015 Code Analysis: Warning C28159 Consider using
'GetTickCount64' instead of 'GetTickCount'.
Reason: GetTickCount overflows roughly every 49 days. Code that does not
take that into account can loop indefinitely. GetTickCount64 operates on
64 bit values and does not have that problem.
Signed-off-by: Steve Hoelzer <shoelzer@gmail.com>
We do have a lovely Makefile option to state that that header file is
not available. Let's use it everywhere...
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MS Visual C suggests that the construct
condition ? (int) i : (ptrdiff_t) d
is incorrect. Let's fix this by casting to ptrdiff_t also for the
positive arm of the conditional.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
