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>
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 (i.e. similar to vtable pointers in OOP).
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.
Move the fixed sized dirent.d_name buffer to the dirent-specific DIR
structure, as d_name may be implementation specific (e.g. a caching
implementation may just set d_name to point into the cache instead of
copying the entire file name string).
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
With msysGit the .git directory is supposed to be hidden, unless it is
a bare git repository. Test this.
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
At least for cross-platform projects, it makes sense to hide the
files starting with a dot, as this is the behavior on Unix/MacOSX.
However, at least Eclipse has problems interpreting the hidden flag
correctly, so the default is to hide only the .git/ directory.
The config setting core.hideDotFiles therefore supports not only
'true' and 'false', but also 'dotGitOnly'.
[jes: clarified the commit message, made git init respect the setting
by marking the .git/ directory only after reading the config, and added
documentation, and rebased on top of current junio/next]
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The setup code used to die when core.bare and core.worktree are set
inconsistently, even for commands that do not need working tree.
* jk/die-on-bogus-worktree-late:
setup_git_directory: delay core.bare/core.worktree errors
There was a dead code that used to handle "git pull --tags" and
show special-cased error message, which was made irrelevant when
the semantics of the option changed back in Git 1.9 days.
* pt/pull-tags-error-diag:
pull: remove --tags error in no merge candidates case
"color.diff.plain" was a misnomer; give it 'color.diff.context' as
a more logical synonym.
* jk/color-diff-plain-is-context:
diff.h: rename DIFF_PLAIN color slot to DIFF_CONTEXT
diff: accept color.diff.context as a synonym for "plain"
The configuration reader/writer uses mmap(2) interface to access
the files; when we find a directory, it barfed with "Out of memory?".
* jk/diagnose-config-mmap-failure:
xmmap(): drop "Out of memory?"
config.c: rewrite ENODEV into EISDIR when mmap fails
config.c: avoid xmmap error messages
config.c: fix mmap leak when writing config
read-cache.c: drop PROT_WRITE from mmap of index
Recent "git prune" traverses young unreachable objects to safekeep
old objects in the reachability chain from them, which sometimes
caused error messages that are unnecessarily alarming.
* jk/squelch-missing-link-warning-for-unreachable:
suppress errors on missing UNINTERESTING links
silence broken link warnings with revs->ignore_missing_links
add quieter versions of parse_{tree,commit}
"git rebase -i" fired post-rewrite hook when it shouldn't (namely,
when it was told to stop sequencing with 'exec' insn).
* mm/rebase-i-post-rewrite-exec:
t5407: use <<- to align the expected output
rebase -i: fix post-rewrite hook with failed exec command
rebase -i: demonstrate incorrect behavior of post-rewrite
Actually, we should always keep the trailing slashes as both users of
`normalize_ntpath()` require them: `_wchdir()` wants the slash in
particular when changing the directory to a drive root, and
`readlink()`'s semantics require a trailing slash for symbolic links
pointing to directories.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/210
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is needed so that `_wchdir()` can be used with drive root
directories, e.g. C:\ (`_wchdir("C:")` fails to switch the directory
to the root directory).
This fixes https://github.com/msysgit/git/issues/359 (in Git for Windows
2.x only, though).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The idea of `git-bash.exe` automatically running the Git Bash in the
home directory was to support the start menu item `Git Bash` (which
should not start in C:\Program Files\Git, but in $HOME), and to make
that behavior consistent with double-clicking in `git-bash.exe`
portable Git.
However, it turns out that one of the main use cases of portable Git is
to run the Git Bash in GitHub for Windows, and it should start in the
top-level directory of a given project. Therefore, the concern to keep
double-clicking `git-bash.exe` consistent with the start menu item was
actually unfounded.
As to the start menu item: it can easily be changed to launch
`git-bash.exe` with a command-line option. So let's introduce the
--cd-to-home option for that purpose.
As a bonus, the Git wrapper can now also serve as a drop-in redirector
/bin/bash.exe to provide backwards-compatibility of Git for Windows 2.x
with 1.x: some 3rd-party software expects to find that executable there,
and it also expects it to leave the working directory unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This branch introduces support for reading the "Windows-wide" Git
configuration from `%PROGRAMDATA%\Git\config`. As these settings are
intended to be shared between *all* Git-related software, that config
file takes an even lower precedence than `$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch adds the --command=<command> option that allows
starting the Git Bash (or Git CMD) with different terminal emulators
than the one encoded via embedded string resources.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Between the libgit2 and the Git for Windows project, there has been a
discussion how we could share Git configuration to avoid duplication (or
worse: skew).
Earlier, libgit2 was nice enough to just re-use Git for Windows'
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\gitconfig
but with the upcoming Git for Windows 2.x, there would be more paths to
search, as we will have 64-bit and 32-bit versions, and the
corresponding config files will be in %PROGRAMFILES%\Git\mingw64\etc and
...\mingw32\etc, respectively.
Worse: there are portable Git for Windows versions out there which live
in totally unrelated directories, still.
Therefore we came to a consensus to use `%PROGRAMDATA%\Git\config` as the
location for shared Git settings that are of wider interest than just Git
for Windows.
On XP, there is no %PROGRAMDATA%, therefore we need to use
"%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Git\config" in those setups.
Of course, the configuration in `%PROGRAMDATA%\Git\config` has the
widest reach, therefore it must take the lowest precedence, i.e. Git for
Windows can still override settings in its `etc/gitconfig` file.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
By embedding string resources into the Git wrapper executable, it
can be configured to execute custom commands (after setting up the
environment in the way required for Git for Windows to work properly).
This feature is used e.g. for `git-bash.exe` which launches a Bash in
the configured terminal window.
Here, we introduce command-line options to override those string
resources. That way, a user can call `git-bash.exe` (which is a copy of
the Git wrapper with `usr\bin\bash.exe --login -i` embedded as string
resource) with command-line options that will override what command is
run.
ConEmu, for example, might want to call
...\git-bash.exe --needs-console --no-hide --minimal-search-path ^
--command=usr\\bin\\bash.exe --login -i
In particular, the following options are supported now:
--command=<command-line>::
Executes `<command-line>` instead of the embedded string resource
--[no-]minimal-search-path::
Ensures that only `/cmd/` is added to the `PATH` instead of
`/mingw??/bin` and `/usr/bin/`, or not
--[no-]needs-console::
Ensures that there is a Win32 console associated with the spawned
process, or not
--[no-]hide::
Hides the console window, or not
Helped-by: Eli Young <elyscape@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
'git config' (--add / --unset etc.) automatically creates missing config
files. However, it fails with a misleading error message "could not lock
config file" if the parent directory doesn't exist.
Also create missing parent directories.
This is particularly important when calling
git config -f /non/existing/directory/config ...
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We will enhance the function in the next commit to support @@VAR@@
expansion in the upcoming `--command=<command>` option.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When developing Git for Windows, we always have to ensure that we do not
break any non-Windows platforms, e.g. by introducing Windows-specific code
into the platform-independent source code.
At other times, it is necessary to test whether a bug is Windows-specific
or not, in order to send the bug report to the correct place. Having
access to a Linux-based Git comes in really handy in such a situation.
Vagrant offers a painless way to install and use a defined Linux
development environment on Windows (and other Operating Systems). We offer
a Vagrantfile to that end for two reasons:
1) To allow Windows users to gain the full power of Linux' Git
2) To offer users an easy path to verify that the issue they are about
to report is really a Windows-specific issue; otherwise they would
need to report it to git@vger.kernel.org instead.
Using it is easy: Download and install https://www.virtualbox.org/, then
download and install https://www.vagrantup.com/, then direct your
command-line window to the Git source directory containing the Vagrantfile
and run the commands:
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
See https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Vagrant for details.
As part of switching Git for Windows' development environment from msysGit
to the MSys2-based Git SDK, this Vagrantfile was copy-edited from msysGit:
https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/blob/0be8f2208/Vagrantfile
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Use msysGit's `git-wrapper` instead of the builtins. This works around
two issues:
- when the file system does not allow hard links, we would waste over
800 megabyte by having 109 copies of a multi-megabyte executable
- even when the file system allows hard links, the Windows Explorer
counts the disk usage as if it did not. Many users complained about
Git for Windows using too much space (when it actually did not). We
can easily avoid those user complaints by merging this branch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This was originally 'pull request #330 from ethomson/poll_inftim' in
msysgit/git.
poll: honor the timeout on Win32
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
These fixes were necessary for Sverre Rabbelier's remote-hg to work,
but for some magic reason they are not necessary for the current
remote-hg. Makes you wonder how that one gets away with it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
