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Jeff Hostetler
13f74123a8 fscache: make fscache_enabled() public
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>
2022-06-22 22:27:05 +02:00
Jeff Hostetler
8e0d457a78 dir.c: make add_excludes aware of fscache during status
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>
2022-06-22 22:27:05 +02:00
Jeff Hostetler
e608a36c27 fscache: remember not-found directories
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>
2022-06-22 22:27:05 +02:00
Jeff Hostetler
27fe71d37f fscache: add key for GIT_TRACE_FSCACHE
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:27:04 +02:00
Karsten Blees
f5f0359755 fscache: load directories only once
If multiple threads access a directory that is not yet in the cache, the
directory will be loaded by each thread. Only one of the results is added
to the cache, all others are leaked. This wastes performance and memory.

On cache miss, add a future object to the cache to indicate that the
directory is currently being loaded. Subsequent threads register themselves
with the future object and wait. When the first thread has loaded the
directory, it replaces the future object with the result and notifies
waiting threads.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2022-06-22 22:27:04 +02:00
Karsten Blees
2dc95be67c mingw: add a cache below mingw's lstat and dirent implementations
Checking the work tree status is quite slow on Windows, due to slow
`lstat()` emulation (git calls `lstat()` once for each file in the
index). Windows operating system APIs seem to be much better at scanning
the status of entire directories than checking single files.

Add an `lstat()` implementation that uses a cache for lstat data. Cache
misses read the entire parent directory and add it to the cache.
Subsequent `lstat()` calls for the same directory are served directly
from the cache.

Also implement `opendir()`/`readdir()`/`closedir()` so that they create
and use directory listings in the cache.

The cache doesn't track file system changes and doesn't plug into any
modifying file APIs, so it has to be explicitly enabled for git functions
that don't modify the working copy.

Note: in an earlier version of this patch, the cache was always active and
tracked file system changes via ReadDirectoryChangesW. However, this was
much more complex and had negative impact on the performance of modifying
git commands such as 'git checkout'.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:27:04 +02:00
Karsten Blees
6851bed88a add infrastructure for read-only file system level caches
Add a macro to mark code sections that only read from the file system,
along with a config option and documentation.

This facilitates implementation of relatively simple file system level
caches without the need to synchronize with the file system.

Enable read-only sections for 'git status' and preload_index.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2022-06-22 22:27:04 +02:00
Karsten Blees
de431c9ee5 Win32: make the lstat implementation pluggable
Emulating the POSIX lstat API on Windows via GetFileAttributes[Ex] is quite
slow. Windows operating system APIs seem to be much better at scanning the
status of entire directories than checking single files. A caching
implementation may improve performance by bulk-reading entire directories
or reusing data obtained via opendir / readdir.

Make the lstat implementation pluggable so that it can be switched at
runtime, e.g. based on a config option.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:27:04 +02:00
Karsten Blees
1e40cae49a mingw: make the dirent implementation pluggable
Emulating the POSIX `dirent` API on Windows via
`FindFirstFile()`/`FindNextFile()` is pretty staightforward, however,
most of the information provided in the `WIN32_FIND_DATA` structure is
thrown away in the process. A more sophisticated implementation may
cache this data, e.g. for later reuse in calls to `lstat()`.

Make the `dirent` implementation pluggable so that it can be switched at
runtime, e.g. based on a config option.

Define a base DIR structure with pointers to `readdir()`/`closedir()`
that match the `opendir()` implementation (similar to vtable pointers in
Object-Oriented Programming). Define `readdir()`/`closedir()` so that
they call the function pointers in the `DIR` structure. This allows to
choose the `opendir()` implementation on a call-by-call basis.

Make the fixed-size `dirent.d_name` buffer a flex array, as `d_name` may
be implementation specific (e.g. a caching implementation may allocate a
`struct dirent` with _just_ the size needed to hold the `d_name` in
question).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:27:04 +02:00
Karsten Blees
5f9aff05ed Win32: dirent.c: Move opendir down
Move opendir down in preparation for the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2022-06-22 22:27:04 +02:00
Karsten Blees
5900a7c2a3 Win32: make FILETIME conversion functions public
We will use them in the upcoming "FSCache" patches (to accelerate
sequential lstat() calls).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:27:04 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
019792dc91 Merge pull request #3875 from 1480c1/wine/detect_msys_tty
winansi: check result before using Name for pty
2022-06-22 22:27:02 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
ee851588a7 Merge pull request #3751 from rkitover/native-term
mingw: set $env:TERM=xterm-256color for newer OSes
2022-06-22 22:27:02 +02:00
Derrick Stolee
9009e639c2 Merge pull request #3791: Various fixes around safe.directory
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.
2022-06-22 22:27:01 +02:00
Victoria Dye
d48c6923ca Merge branch 'safe.directory-and-windows'
These two patches made it into Git for Windows v2.35.2, but not into Git
v2.35.2.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:27:01 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
9472dff427 Merge pull request #3220 from dscho/there-is-no-vs/master-anymore
Let the documentation reflect that there is no vs/master anymore
2022-06-22 22:26:58 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
db02ae96b3 Merge pull request #3165 from dscho/increase-allowed-length-of-interpreter-path
mingw: allow for longer paths in `parse_interpreter()`
2022-06-22 22:26:58 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
46f825f183 Merge pull request #2915 from dennisameling/windows-arm64-support
Windows arm64 support
2022-06-22 22:26:56 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
832a9e3bfa Merge pull request #2351 from PhilipOakley/vcpkg-tip
Vcpkg Install: detect lack of working Git, and note possible vcpkg time outs
2022-06-22 22:26:56 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
d447a3469f Merge pull request #2974 from derrickstolee/maintenance-and-headless
Include Windows-specific maintenance and headless-git
2022-06-22 22:26:56 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
1fbb75243a Merge pull request #2506 from dscho/issue-2283
Allow running Git directly from `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe`
2022-06-22 22:26:52 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
94893f7718 Merge pull request #2504 from dscho/access-repo-via-junction
Handle `git add <file>` where <file> traverses an NTFS junction
2022-06-22 22:26:52 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
0b6d64aca2 Merge pull request #2501 from jeffhostetler/clink-debug-curl
clink.pl: fix MSVC compile script to handle libcurl-d.lib
2022-06-22 22:26:51 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
edd43b8d01 Merge pull request #2488 from bmueller84/master
mingw: fix fatal error working on mapped network drives on Windows
2022-06-22 22:26:51 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
20e564ff30 Merge pull request #2449 from dscho/mingw-getcwd-and-symlinks
Do resolve symlinks in `getcwd()`
2022-06-22 22:26:51 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
ddedaa4ae0 Merge pull request #2405 from dscho/mingw-setsockopt
Make sure `errno` is set when socket operations fail
2022-06-22 22:26:50 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
14958dc0f2 Merge branch 'dont-clean-junctions'
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>
2022-06-22 22:26:49 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
eb7cfc9f5f Merge branch 'fsync-object-files-always'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:26:48 +02:00
Christopher Degawa
512e30754b winansi: check result and Buffer before using Name
NtQueryObject under Wine can return a success but fill out no name.
In those situations, Wine will set Buffer to NULL, and set result to
the sizeof(OBJECT_NAME_INFORMATION).

Running a command such as

echo "$(git.exe --version 2>/dev/null)"

will crash due to a NULL pointer dereference when the code attempts to
null terminate the buffer, although, weirdly, removing the subshell or
redirecting stdout to a file will not trigger the crash.

Code has been added to also check Buffer and Length to ensure the check
is as robust as possible due to the current behavior being fragile at
best, and could potentially change in the future

This code is based on the behavior of NtQueryObject under wine and
reactos.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Degawa <ccom@randomderp.com>
2022-06-22 22:26:47 +02:00
Rafael Kitover
dfdfdf5229 mingw: $env:TERM="xterm-256color" for newer OSes
For Windows builds >= 15063 set $env:TERM to "xterm-256color" instead of
"cygwin" because they have a more capable console system that supports
this. Also set $env:COLORTERM="truecolor" if unset.

$env:TERM is initialized so that ANSI colors in color.c work, see
29a3963484 (Win32: patch Windows environment on startup, 2012-01-15).

See git-for-windows/git#3629 regarding problems caused by always setting
$env:TERM="cygwin".

This is the same heuristic used by the Cygwin runtime.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Kitover <rkitover@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:26:46 +02:00
Derrick Stolee
989f9b6071 compat/mingw.c: do not warn when failing to get owner
In the case of Git for Windows (say, in a Git Bash window) running in a
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) directory, the GetNamedSecurityInfoW()
call in is_path_owned_By_current_side() returns an error code other than
ERROR_SUCCESS. This is consistent behavior across this boundary.

In these cases, the owner would always be different because the WSL
owner is a different entity than the Windows user.

The change here is to suppress the error message that looks like this:

  error: failed to get owner for '//wsl.localhost/...' (1)

Before this change, this warning happens for every Git command,
regardless of whether the directory is marked with safe.directory.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
2022-06-22 22:26:46 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
b89716aae9 mingw: handle a file owned by the Administrators group correctly
When an Administrator creates a file or directory, the created
file/directory is owned not by the Administrator SID, but by the
_Administrators Group_ SID. The reason is that users with administrator
privileges usually run in unprivileged ("non-elevated") mode, and their
user SID does not change when running in elevated mode.

This is is relevant e.g. when running a GitHub workflow on a build
agent, which runs in elevated mode: cloning a Git repository in a script
step will cause the worktree to be owned by the Administrators Group
SID, for example.

Let's handle this case as following: if the current user is an
administrator, Git should consider a worktree owned by the
Administrators Group as if it were owned by said user.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:26:46 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
9febc5ec7c Allow debugging unsafe directories' ownership
When Git refuses to use an existing repository because it is owned by
someone else than the current user, it can be a bit tricky on Windows to
figure out what is going on.

Let's help with that by offering some more information via the
environment variable `GIT_TEST_DEBUG_UNSAFE_DIRECTORIES`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:26:45 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
f6679a8070 compat/vcbuild: document preferred way to build in Visual Studio
We used to have that `make vcxproj` hack, but a hack it is. In the
meantime, we have a much cleaner solution: using CMake, either
explicitly, or even more conveniently via Visual Studio's built-in CMake
support (simply open Git's top-level directory via File>Open>Folder...).

Let's let the `README` reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:26:43 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
74e940862f mingw: allow for longer paths in parse_interpreter()
As reported in https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo/pull/225, it
looks like 99 bytes is not really sufficient to represent e.g. the full
path to Python when installed via Windows Store (and this path is used
in the hasb bang line when installing scripts via `pip`).

Let's increase it to what is probably the maximum sensible path size:
MAX_PATH. This makes `parse_interpreter()` in line with what
`lookup_prog()` handles.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Vilius Šumskas <vilius@sumskas.eu>
2022-06-22 22:26:43 +02:00
Dennis Ameling
32471ac492 Add schannel to curl installation
Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
2022-06-22 22:26:39 +02:00
Ian Bearman
d6a2685bb2 vcbuild: add an option to install individual 'features'
In this context, a "feature" is a dependency combined with its own
dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Ian Bearman <ianb@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:26:39 +02:00
Philip Oakley
9406966915 vcpkg_install: add comment regarding slow network connections
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>
2022-06-22 22:26:38 +02:00
Ian Bearman
ee7137f08b vcbuild: install ARM64 dependencies when building ARM64 binaries
Co-authored-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Bearman <ianb@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:26:38 +02:00
Philip Oakley
5b81cff9cb vcpkg_install: detect lack of Git
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>
2022-06-22 22:26:38 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
327a3fc6a7 win32: add a helper to run git.exe without a foreground window
On Windows, there are two kinds of executables, console ones and
non-console ones. Git's executables are all console ones.

When launching the former e.g. in a scheduled task, a CMD window pops
up. This is not what we want for the tasks installed via the `git
maintenance` command.

To work around this, let's introduce `headless-git.exe`, which is a
non-console program that does _not_ pop up any window. All it does is to
re-launch `git.exe`, suppressing that console window, passing through
all command-line arguments as-are.

Helped-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Yuyi Wang <Strawberry_Str@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
2022-06-22 22:26:38 +02:00
Jeff Hostetler
8cc8fa9d7f 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>
2022-06-22 22:26:37 +02:00
Jeff Hostetler
243b1e77c0 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>
2022-06-22 22:26:37 +02:00
Jeff Hostetler
20232dbc67 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>
2022-06-22 22:26:37 +02:00
Jeff Hostetler
6a2e4bb3ac 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>
2022-06-22 22:26:37 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
96b10356c2 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>
2022-06-22 22:26:35 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
16556d4a7e mingw: implement a platform-specific strbuf_realpath()
There is a Win32 API function to resolve symbolic links, and we can use
that instead of resolving them manually. Even better, this function also
resolves NTFS junction points (which are somewhat similar to bind
mounts).

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2481.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:26:34 +02:00
Jeff Hostetler
22e28c020e clink.pl: fix MSVC compile script to handle libcurl-d.lib
Update clink.pl to link with either libcurl.lib or libcurl-d.lib
depending on whether DEBUG=1 is set.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-06-22 22:26:34 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
eaa12ca2ae 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>
2022-06-22 22:26:34 +02:00
Johannes Schindelin
6a7f8e294c 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>
2022-06-22 22:26:34 +02:00