Continue the size_t evacuation. read_blob_data_from_index() reads
the blob through the size_t odb_read_object() API but writes the
size back through an unsigned long out-parameter, silently
truncating anything past 4 GiB on Windows. Widen the out-parameter,
drop the cast_size_t_to_ulong() shim, and move the matching locals
in the two convert.c callers and the one in attr.c. Their
downstream consumers (gather_convert_stats() widened in the prior
commit and read_attr_from_buf() already size_t) take the new type
directly.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Prep for the upcoming read_blob_data_from_index() widening, whose
callers in convert.c feed the size they receive straight into these
two helpers. Both are file-static, so the change is contained.
Also fixes a small pre-existing narrowing on the get_wt_convert_stats_ascii()
path, where strbuf.len (size_t) was passed to a unsigned long
parameter.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Continue the size_t evacuation around large object handling: with
deflate_it() and the locals around it widened, the
cast_size_t_to_ulong() shim the prior delta_delta() widening had to
leave behind in emit_binary_diff_body() goes away. deflate_it() is
file-static; the only callers are the two in emit_binary_diff_body()
already touched here.
emit_diff_symbol() formats the resulting sizes via uintmax_t / %"PRIuMAX",
so the diff output is not affected; only the per-process upper bound
on a binary patch chunk that this function can address grows beyond
4 GiB on Windows.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
All four `unsigned long` / `int` / `ssize_t` receivers across
archive-zip, diff, http-push and t/helper/test-pack-deltas were
widened to size_t in the prior commits, and remote-curl and
fast-import were already there. With every caller prepared, both the
parameter and the return type can now move without introducing any
silent narrowing.
For inputs above zlib's uLong range (i.e. >4 GiB on platforms where
uLong is 32-bit, notably 64-bit Windows), defer to zlib's
stored-block formula (the same fallback it would itself use for an
unknown stream state) plus the worst-case wrapper overhead. The
existing path through deflateBound() is unchanged for inputs that
fit.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Prep for the upcoming git_deflate_bound() widening to size_t. The
local is only ever the return value of git_deflate_bound() and the
xmalloc() / stream.avail_out sizes derived from it; widening it has
no semantic effect today.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The local is initialised from git_deflate_bound() (an unsigned upper
bound on the deflated output, never negative) and used in exactly
three places: the initialising assignment, strbuf_grow(buf, size)
whose parameter is already size_t, and stream.avail_out which became
size_t in the prior commit. There is no comparison against zero or a
negative value, no subtraction, no arithmetic that depends on
signedness, and no path that would assign a signed quantity to it.
The original ssize_t was the wrong type to begin with: a
git_deflate_bound() result above SSIZE_MAX would have wrapped
negative on assignment and then implicitly re-extended to a huge
size_t at strbuf_grow() / stream.avail_out, requesting an absurd
allocation. That is not a real-world concern for the object sizes
http-push pushes today, but it is also the reason the type needs to
move to size_t before git_deflate_bound() itself is widened.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Fixes a pre-existing silent narrowing from git_deflate_bound()'s
unsigned long return into an int local: anything past 2 GiB has
always wrapped negative here and then been re-extended to size_t
inside xmalloc(). Also prep for the upcoming git_deflate_bound()
widening to size_t, which would extend the narrowing further if
bound stayed int.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Prep for the upcoming git_deflate_bound() widening to size_t: the
local that catches its return needs to be size_t too, otherwise the
widening would introduce a silent Windows narrowing here. No
semantic effect with the current unsigned-long-returning
git_deflate_bound() (size_t == unsigned long on this caller's
platforms today).
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Bundling the two widenings: four call sites pass &stream.avail_in
directly to use_pack(), and widening either type fencepost alone
would force a bridge variable at each. Doing both together is the
simpler end state and is the prerequisite for the do_compress()
widening in the next commit, which is what lets
write_no_reuse_object() lose its last cast_size_t_to_ulong() shim.
The unsigned-long locals widened at the other use_pack() callers
(avail / remaining / left) hold pack-window sizes bounded by
core.packedGitWindowSize, so the change is type consistency rather
than a new >4GB capability. git_zstream.avail_in / avail_out
likewise reach zlib's uInt fields only after zlib_buf_cap()'s 1 GiB
cap, so the wrapper already accepted size_t-shaped inputs in
practice.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Last stop in the delta-encoding API widening for >4 GiB blobs on
Windows: with create_delta_index() done in the prior commit and
create_delta()/diff_delta() finished here, every byte count that
crosses delta.h is now size_t. The struct fields they store into
have been size_t since the diff-delta struct widening.
The API change must move with all callers in the same commit (the
build only passes when every &delta_size matches the new size_t*).
Caller updates are kept minimal:
* builtin/pack-objects.c get_delta() and try_delta(): widen only
the local delta_size variable; the surrounding unsigned-long
locals and their cast_size_t_to_ulong() shims are out of scope
here and will be cleaned up in their own commits.
* builtin/fast-import.c, diff.c, t/helper/test-pack-deltas.c:
keep the local unsigned-long delta size (each feeds a still-
unsigned-long downstream consumer: zlib's avail_in,
deflate_it(), the test helper's own do_compress()), and bridge
via a temporary size_t plus cast_size_t_to_ulong(). The new
casts are paid back in later topics that widen those consumers.
* t/helper/test-delta.c: widen the local outright (no downstream
consumer beyond the test's own out_size, which is already
size_t).
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The pair must move together because find_deltas() passes &mem_usage
to try_delta(): widening either alone breaks the type match.
mem_usage accumulates per-object byte counts already computed in
size_t (SIZE() and sizeof_delta_index() reach here through
free_unpacked(), now size_t), and was the last 32-bit-on-Windows
narrowing point in the delta-window memory accounting chain. With
this commit, that chain is internally size_t end-to-end except for
sizeof_delta_index()'s still-narrow return, whose value is bounded
by create_delta_index()'s entries cap.
window_memory_limit (config-driven via git_config_ulong()) stays
unsigned long: it is only compared against mem_usage and promotes.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
free_unpacked() sums two byte counts: sizeof_delta_index() and
SIZE(n->entry). The latter has been size_t since the prior topic
"More work supporting objects larger than 4GB on Windows" widened
SIZE() / oe_size() to size_t, so accumulating it into an unsigned
long return was a silent Windows-only truncation on a packing run
with many large objects.
The sole caller (find_deltas()) holds its own mem_usage in an
unsigned long for now and subtracts the return into it, so the new
narrowing happens at that subtraction. find_deltas() and the
matching try_delta() out-parameter are widened next.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
These three are a single accounting tuple (the globals tracking
cumulative cached-delta bytes, plus the helper that compares them
against an incoming delta size) and are latently 32-bit on Windows
where unsigned long != size_t: a pack with many large cached deltas
could wrap silently.
The widening is internally consistent on its own: the additions and
subtractions against delta_cache_size already come from size_t
sources (DELTA_SIZE() returns size_t), and delta_cacheable()'s sole
caller in try_delta() still passes unsigned long, which promotes.
Prerequisite for dropping try_delta()'s cast_size_t_to_ulong()
shims, which becomes possible once create_delta() and diff_delta()
are widened in a later commit.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The sole caller (try_delta() in builtin/pack-objects.c) passes an
unsigned long, which promotes safely, so no caller fixups are
needed. Splitting it out keeps the diff_delta() / create_delta()
widening, which does ripple to several callers, in its own commit.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Preparation for widening the delta-encoding API to size_t in
subsequent commits, which is what lets pack-objects drop the
cast_size_t_to_ulong() shims that 606c192380 (odb, packfile: use
size_t for streaming object sizes, 2026-05-08) had to leave behind
in get_delta() and try_delta() because their downstream consumers
were still narrow.
The struct is private to diff-delta.c, so widening its fields in
isolation is a no-op at runtime: the values stored continue to fit
in 32 bits on Windows because the public API around it still
truncates. Splitting it out keeps the API-change commit focused on
caller updates.
Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
These fixes have been sent to the Git mailing list but have not been
picked up by the Git project yet.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In some implementations, `regexec_buf()` assumes that it is fed lines;
Without `REG_NOTEOL` it thinks the end of the buffer is the end of a
line. Which makes sense, but trips up this case because we are not
feeding lines, but rather a whole buffer. So the final newline is not
the start of an empty line, but the true end of the buffer.
This causes an interesting bug:
$ echo content >file.txt
$ git grep --no-index -n '^$' file.txt
file.txt:2:
This bug is fixed by making the end of the buffer consistently the end
of the final line.
The patch was applied from
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250113062601.GD767856@coredump.intra.peff.net/
Reported-by: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When a Unix socket is initialized, the current directory's path is
stored so that the cleanup code can `chdir()` back to where it was
before exit.
If the path that needs to be stored exceeds the default size of the
`sun_path` attribute of `struct sockaddr_un` (which is defined as a
108-sized byte array on Linux), a larger buffer needs to be allocated so
that it can hold the path, and it is the responsibility of the
`unix_sockaddr_cleanup()` function to release that allocated memory.
In Git's CI, this stack allocation is not necessary because the code is
checked out to `/home/runner/work/git/git`. Concatenate the path
`t/trash directory.t0301-credential-cache/.cache/git/credential/socket`
and a terminating NUL, and you end up with 96 bytes, 12 shy of the
default `sun_path` size.
However, I use worktrees with slightly longer paths:
`/home/me/projects/git/yes/i/nest/worktrees/to/organize/them/` is more
in line with what I have. When I recently tried to locally reproduce a
failure of the `linux-leaks` CI job, this t0301 test failed (where it
had not failed in CI).
The reason: When `credential-cache` tries to reach its daemon initially
by calling `unix_sockaddr_init()`, it is expected that the daemon cannot
be reached (the idea is to spin up the daemon in that case and try
again). However, when this first call to `unix_sockaddr_init()` fails,
the code returns early from the `unix_stream_connect()` function
_without_ giving the cleanup code a chance to run, skipping the
deallocation of above-mentioned path.
The fix is easy: do not return early but instead go directly to the
cleanup code.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, symbolic links come in two flavors: file symlinks and
directory symlinks. Since Git was born on Linux where this distinction
does not exist, Git for Windows has to auto-detect the type by looking
at the target. When the target does not yet exist at symlink creation
time, Git for Windows creates a "phantom" file symlink and later, once
checkout is complete, calls `CreateFileW()` on the target to check
whether it is actually a directory.
If the symlink target is a UNC path (e.g. `\\attacker\share`), this
auto-detection triggers an SMB connection to the remote host. Windows
performs NTLM authentication by default for such connections, which
means a crafted repository can exfiltrate the cloning user's NTLMv2
hash to an attacker-controlled server without any user interaction
beyond `git clone -c core.symlinks=true <url>`.
There are ways to specify UNC paths that start with only a single
backslash (e.g. `\??\UNC\host\share`); All of them do start like
that, though, so let's use that as a tell-tale that we should skip
the auto-detection in `process_phantom_symlink()`. The symlink is
then left as a file symlink (the `mklink` default), and a warning is
emitted suggesting the user set the `symlink` gitattribute to `dir`
if a directory symlink is needed. When the attribute is already set,
auto-detection is never invoked in the first place, so that code path
is unaffected.
This is the same class of vulnerability as CVE-2025-66413
(https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/security/advisories/GHSA-hv9c-4jm9-jh3x)
and follows the same general mitigation pattern that MinTTY adopted for
ANSI escape sequences referencing network share paths
(https://github.com/mintty/mintty/security/advisories/GHSA-jf4m-m6rv-p6c5).
Note that there are legitimate paths starting with a single backslash
that are _not_ network paths: drive-less absolute paths are interpreted
as relative to the current working directory's drive. In practice, these
are highly uncommon (and brittle, just one working directory change
away from breaking). In any case, the only consequence is now that the
symlink type of those has to be specified via Git attributes, is all.
Reported-by: Justin Lee <jessdhoctor@gmail.com>
Addresses: CVE-2026-32631
Addresses: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/security/advisories/GHSA-9j5h-h4m7-85hx
Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Every once in a while I need to verify that Microsoft Git's test suite
passes for changes that are not yet meant for public consumption, and
since it was (made) too difficult to keep up a working Azure Pipeline
definition, I have to use GitHub Actions in a private GitHub repository
for that purpose.
In these tests, basically all Dockerized CI jobs fail consistently. The
symptom is something like:
error: cannot create async thread: Resource temporarily unavailable
in the middle of a test, typically in the t5xxx-t6xxx range. The first
such error is immediately followed by plenty more of these errors, and
not a single test succeeds afterwards.
At first, I thought that maybe the massive parallelism I enjoy there is
the problem, and I thought that the cgroups limits might be shared
between the many containers that run on essentially the same physical
machine. But even reducing the matrix to just a single of those
Dockerized jobs runs into the very same problems.
The underlying reason seems to be a substantial difference in the hosted
runners that execute these Dockerized jobs: forcing the PID limit of the
container to a high number lets the jobs pass, even when running the
complete matrix of all 13 Dockerized jobs concurrently. But that's not
the only difference: The jobs seem to take a lot longer in these
containers than, say, in the containers made available to
https://github.com/git/git.
When forcing a PID limit of 64k in that private repository, the jobs
completed successfully, but they also took a lot longer, between 2x to
2.5x longer, i.e. painfully much longer. Reducing the PID limit to 16k,
the CI jobs still passed, but took an equally long amount of time.
Reducing the PID limit to 8k caused the errors to reappear.
Here are the numbers from three example runs, the first one forcing the
PID and nproc limit to 65536, the second one to 16384, the third run is
from the public git/git repository:
Job | 64k | 16k | reference
------------------------------|---------|---------|---------
almalinux-8 | 19m 3s | 16m 0s | 9m 36s
debian-11 | 20m 31s | 20m 3s | 8m 5s
fedora-breaking-changes-meson | 16m 29s | 19m 19s | 9m 40s
linux-asan-ubsan | 1h 10m | 1h 11m | 34m 36s
linux-breaking-changes | 25m 39s | 25m 58s | 13m 15s
linux-leaks | 1h 9m | 1h 10m | 33m 30s
linux-meson | 28m 9s | 27m 4s | 13m 45s
linux-musl-meson | 16m 32s | 13m 39s | 8m 6s
linux-reftable-leaks | 1h 13m | 1h 13m | 34m 34s
linux-reftable | 26m 2s | 25m 48s | 13m 31s
linux-sha256 | 26m 12s | 26m 3s | 12m 36s
linux-TEST-vars | 26m 5s | 25m 21s | 13m 25s
linux32 | 21m 16s | 19m 57s | 10m 44s
It does not look as if the PID limit is the reason for the longer
runtime, seeing as the 64k vs 16k timings deviate no more than as is
usual with GitHub workflows. So let's go for 16k.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In t4216 we have have a prerequisite that is active in case the system's
`char` type is signed by default. This prerequisite isn't really used by
anything though: while it is used to guard one of our tests, that
specific test is essentially a no-op. So all this infrastructure does is
to provide some debugging hint to a reader that pays a lot of attention.
Besides that, the way we set up the prerequisite also results in broken
TAP output on systems where `char` is unsigned by default: we use
`test_cmp()` to diff two files outside of of any test body, and if the
files differ we enable the prerequisite. If so, the call to `test_cmp()`
would also print output, and that output is of course not valid TAP
output.
That wasn't a problem before 389c83025d (t: let prove fail when parsing
invalid TAP output, 2026-06-04), because our TAP parser was configured
to be lenient. But starting with that commit, t4216 is now failing on
systems with unsigned chars.
Drop the whole infrastructure. The prerequisite is not used anywhere
else, and the only location where it's used doesn't really provide much
value.
Reported-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Tested-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Upstream Git does not test their tags with the expensive set of tests,
so a couple of them seem quite broken for now, even so much as hanging
indefinitely.
It is outside of the responsibility of the Git for Windows project to
fix upstream's own tests for platforms other than Windows, so let's not
exercise them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
This is the recommended way on GitHub to describe policies revolving around
security issues and about supported versions.
Helped-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
On Windows, git repositories may have extra files which need cleaned
(e.g., a build directory) that may be arbitrarily deep. Suggest using
`core.longPaths` if such situations are encountered.
Fixes: #2715
Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
The Git project followed Git for Windows' lead and added their Code of
Conduct, based on the Contributor Covenant v1.4, later updated to v2.0.
We adapt it slightly to Git for Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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>
Update wchar_t buffers to use MAX_LONG_PATH instead of MAX_PATH and call
xutftowcs_long_path() in the Win32 backend source files.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
