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Johannes Schindelin
f3cfff4458 Merge branch 'busybox-w32'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
30de94f175 Merge pull request #1897 from piscisaureus/symlink-attr
Specify symlink type in .gitattributes
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
c42f7abdb7 t9200: skip tests when $PWD contains a colon
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>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
75c8f4939d mingw: try resetting the read-only bit if rename fails (#4527)
With this patch, Git for Windows works as intended on mounted APFS
volumes (where renaming read-only files would fail).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
bc3e3b9a46 t5813: allow for $PWD to be a Windows path
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>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
c0bd917f2c Merge 'docker-volumes-are-no-symlinks'
This was pull request #1645 from ZCube/master

Support windows container.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
d851befbd1 t5605: special-case hardlink test for BusyBox-w32
When t5605 tries to verify that files are hardlinked (or that they are
not), it uses the `-links` option of the `find` utility.

BusyBox' implementation does not support that option, and BusyBox-w32's
lstat() does not even report the number of hard links correctly (for
performance reasons).

So let's just switch to a different method that actually works on
Windows.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
fc62db2b15 Merge branch 'msys2' 2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
094cde6490 t5532: workaround for BusyBox on Windows
While it may seem super convenient to some old Unix hands to simpy
require Perl to be available when running the test suite, this is a
major hassle on Windows, where we want to verify that Perl is not,
actually, required in a NO_PERL build.

As a super ugly workaround, we "install" a script into /usr/bin/perl
reading like this:

	#!/bin/sh

	# We'd much rather avoid requiring Perl altogether when testing
	# an installed Git. Oh well, that's why we cannot have nice
	# things.
	exec c:/git-sdk-64/usr/bin/perl.exe "$@"

The problem with that is that BusyBox assumes that the #! line in a
script refers to an executable, not to a script. So when it encounters
the line #!/usr/bin/perl in t5532's proxy-get-cmd, it barfs.

Let's help this situation by simply executing the Perl script with the
"interpreter" specified explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
e72a76ffdf Merge branch 'long-paths' 2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
13ec468b21 t5003: use binary file from t/lib-diff/
At some stage, t5003-archive-zip wants to add a file that is not ASCII.
To that end, it uses /bin/sh. But that file may actually not exist (it
is too easy to forget that not all the world is Unix/Linux...)! Besides,
we already have perfectly fine binary files intended for use solely by
the tests. So let's use one of them instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
62e9a63aae Merge branch 'gitk-and-git-gui-patches'
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>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
0e2e73ff19 test-lib: add BUSYBOX prerequisite
When running with BusyBox, we will want to avoid calling executables on
the PATH that are implemented in BusyBox itself.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
7200e10b4c tests (mingw): remove Bash-specific pwd option
The -W option is only understood by MSYS2 Bash's pwd command. We already
make sure to override `pwd` by `builtin pwd -W` for MINGW, so let's not
double the effort here.

This will also help when switching the shell to another one (such as
BusyBox' ash) whose pwd does *not* understand the -W option.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
7008129a10 mingw: only use Bash-ism builtin pwd -W when available
Traditionally, Git for Windows' SDK uses Bash as its default shell.
However, other Unix shells are available, too. Most notably, the Win32
port of BusyBox comes with `ash` whose `pwd` command already prints
Windows paths as Git for Windows wants them, while there is not even a
`builtin` command.

Therefore, let's be careful not to override `pwd` unless we know that
the `builtin` command is available.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
6c43f8abd3 tests: use the correct path separator with BusyBox
BusyBox-w32 is a true Win32 application, i.e. it does not come with a
POSIX emulation layer.

That also means that it does *not* use the Unix convention of separating
the entries in the PATH variable using colons, but semicolons.

However, there are also BusyBox ports to Windows which use a POSIX
emulation layer such as Cygwin's or MSYS2's runtime, i.e. using colons
as PATH separators.

As a tell-tale, let's use the presence of semicolons in the PATH
variable: on Unix, it is highly unlikely that it contains semicolons,
and on Windows (without POSIX emulation), it is virtually guaranteed, as
everybody should have both $SYSTEMROOT and $SYSTEMROOT/system32 in their
PATH.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
dbf386dd8a tests: only override sort & find if there are usable ones in /usr/bin/
The idea is to allow running the test suite on MinGit with BusyBox
installed in /mingw64/bin/sh.exe. In that case, we will want to exclude
sort & find (and other Unix utilities) from being bundled.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:56 +00:00
Bert Belder
54bd9f980a Win32: symlink: add test for symlink attribute
To verify that the symlink is resolved correctly, we use the fact that
`git.exe` is a native Win32 program, and that `git.exe config -f <path>`
therefore uses the native symlink resolution.

Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
David Lomas
a2ecb64429 mingw: work around rename() failing on a read-only file
At least on _some_ APFS network shares, Git fails to rename the object
files because they are marked as read-only, because that has the effect
of setting the uchg flag on APFS, which then means the file can't be
renamed or deleted.

To work around that, when a rename failed, and the read-only flag is
set, try to turn it off and on again.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4482

Signed-off-by: David Lomas <dl3@pale-eds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
f78fcc16da mingw: Windows Docker volumes are *not* symbolic links
... even if they may look like them.

As looking up the target of the "symbolic link" (just to see whether it
starts with `/ContainerMappedDirectories/`) is pretty expensive, we
do it when we can be *really* sure that there is a possibility that this
might be the case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
733150d29c mingw (git_terminal_prompt): do fall back to CONIN$/CONOUT$ method
To support Git Bash running in a MinTTY, we use a dirty trick to access
the MSYS2 pseudo terminal: we execute a Bash snippet that accesses
/dev/tty.

The idea was to fall back to writing to/reading from CONOUT$/CONIN$ if
that Bash call failed because Bash was not found.

However, we should fall back even in other error conditions, because we
have not successfully read the user input. Let's make it so.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Ben Boeckel
1baa88ec4c clean: suggest using core.longPaths if paths are too long to remove
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>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
03de80b113 tests: move test PNGs into t/lib-diff/
We already have a directory where we store files intended for use by
multiple test scripts. The same directory is a better home for the
test-binary-*.png files than t/.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Bert Belder
ac778f517e mingw: allow to specify the symlink type in .gitattributes
On Windows, symbolic links have a type: a "file symlink" must point at
a file, and a "directory symlink" must point at a directory. If the
type of symlink does not match its target, it doesn't work.

Git does not record the type of symlink in the index or in a tree. On
checkout it'll guess the type, which only works if the target exists
at the time the symlink is created. This may often not be the case,
for example when the link points at a directory inside a submodule.

By specifying `symlink=file` or `symlink=dir` the user can specify what
type of symlink Git should create, so Git doesn't have to rely on
unreliable heuristics.

Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
JiSeop Moon
7adf156bb2 mingw: move the file_attr_to_st_mode() function definition
In preparation for making this function a bit more complicated (to allow
for special-casing the `ContainerMappedDirectories` in Windows
containers, which look like a symbolic link, but are not), let's move it
out of the header.

Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Karsten Blees
0beffa6be6 compat/terminal.c: only use the Windows console if bash 'read -r' fails
Accessing the Windows console through the special CONIN$ / CONOUT$ devices
doesn't work properly for non-ASCII usernames an passwords.

It also doesn't work for terminal emulators that hide the native console
window (such as mintty), and 'TERM=xterm*' is not necessarily a reliable
indicator for such terminals.

The new shell_prompt() function, on the other hand, works fine for both
MSys1 and MSys2, in native console windows as well as mintty, and properly
supports Unicode. It just needs bash on the path (for 'read -s', which is
bash-specific).

On Windows, try to use the shell to read from the terminal. If that fails
with ENOENT (i.e. bash was not found), use CONIN/OUT as fallback.

Note: To test this, create a UTF-8 credential file with non-ASCII chars,
e.g. in git-bash: 'echo url=http://täst.com > cred.txt'. Then in git-cmd,
'git credential fill <cred.txt' works (shell version), while calling git
without the git-wrapper (i.e. 'mingw64\bin\git credential fill <cred.txt')
mangles non-ASCII chars in both console output and input.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Jeff Hostetler
0aa298b09f compat/fsmonitor/fsm-*-win32: support long paths
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>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
c4a2d6ff42 gitattributes: mark .png files as binary
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
61cf20fc3f Introduce helper to create symlinks that knows about index_state
On Windows, symbolic links actually have a type depending on the target:
it can be a file or a directory.

In certain circumstances, this poses problems, e.g. when a symbolic link
is supposed to point into a submodule that is not checked out, so there
is no way for Git to auto-detect the type.

To help with that, we will add support over the course of the next
commits to specify that symlink type via the Git attributes. This
requires an index_state, though, something that Git for Windows'
`symlink()` replacement cannot know about because the function signature
is defined by the POSIX standard and not ours to change.

So let's introduce a helper function to create symbolic links that
*does* know about the index_state.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
JiSeop Moon
767bac4e07 mingw: when running in a Windows container, try to rename() harder
It is a known issue that a rename() can fail with an "Access denied"
error at times, when copying followed by deleting the original file
works. Let's just fall back to that behavior.

Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Karsten Blees
41d725f805 mingw: Support git_terminal_prompt with more terminals
The `git_terminal_prompt()` function expects the terminal window to be
attached to a Win32 Console. However, this is not the case with terminal
windows other than `cmd.exe`'s, e.g. with MSys2's own `mintty`.

Non-cmd terminals such as `mintty` still have to have a Win32 Console
to be proper console programs, but have to hide the Win32 Console to
be able to provide more flexibility (such as being resizeable not only
vertically but also horizontally). By writing to that Win32 Console,
`git_terminal_prompt()` manages only to send the prompt to nowhere and
to wait for input from a Console to which the user has no access.

This commit introduces a function specifically to support `mintty` -- or
other terminals that are compatible with MSys2's `/dev/tty` emulation. We
use the `TERM` environment variable as an indicator for that: if the value
starts with "xterm" (such as `mintty`'s "xterm_256color"), we prefer to
let `xterm_prompt()` handle the user interaction.

The most prominent user of `git_terminal_prompt()` is certainly
`git-remote-https.exe`. It is an interesting use case because both
`stdin` and `stdout` are redirected when Git calls said executable, yet
it still wants to access the terminal.

When running inside a `mintty`, the terminal is not accessible to the
`git-remote-https.exe` program, though, because it is a MinGW program
and the `mintty` terminal is not backed by a Win32 console.

To solve that problem, we simply call out to the shell -- which is an
*MSys2* program and can therefore access `/dev/tty`.

Helped-by: nalla <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
8e17755088 win32(long path support): leave drive-less absolute paths intact
When trying to ensure that long paths are handled correctly, we
first normalize absolute paths as we encounter them.

However, if the path is a so-called "drive-less" absolute path, i.e. if
it is relative to the current drive but _does_ start with a directory
separator, we would want the normalized path to be such a drive-less
absolute path, too.

Let's do that, being careful to still include the drive prefix when we
need to go through the `\\?\` dance (because there, the drive prefix is
absolutely required).

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4586.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
d669bbcec8 tests(mingw): if iconv is unavailable, use test-helper --iconv
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Bert Belder
9e4877c89a Win32: symlink: move phantom symlink creation to a separate function
Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
JiSeop Moon
4f1155a734 mingw: introduce code to detect whether we're inside a Windows container
This will come in handy in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Karsten Blees
0f59e64ef0 mingw: support long paths
Windows paths are typically limited to MAX_PATH = 260 characters, even
though the underlying NTFS file system supports paths up to 32,767 chars.
This limitation is also evident in Windows Explorer, cmd.exe and many
other applications (including IDEs).

Particularly annoying is that most Windows APIs return bogus error codes
if a relative path only barely exceeds MAX_PATH in conjunction with the
current directory, e.g. ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND / ENOENT instead of the
infinitely more helpful ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE / ENAMETOOLONG.

Many Windows wide char APIs support longer than MAX_PATH paths through the
file namespace prefix ('\\?\' or '\\?\UNC\') followed by an absolute path.
Notable exceptions include functions dealing with executables and the
current directory (CreateProcess, LoadLibrary, Get/SetCurrentDirectory) as
well as the entire shell API (ShellExecute, SHGetSpecialFolderPath...).

Introduce a handle_long_path function to check the length of a specified
path properly (and fail with ENAMETOOLONG), and to optionally expand long
paths using the '\\?\' file namespace prefix. Short paths will not be
modified, so we don't need to worry about device names (NUL, CON, AUX).

Contrary to MSDN docs, the GetFullPathNameW function doesn't seem to be
limited to MAX_PATH (at least not on Win7), so we can use it to do the
heavy lifting of the conversion (translate '/' to '\', eliminate '.' and
'..', and make an absolute path).

Add long path error checking to xutftowcs_path for APIs with hard MAX_PATH
limit.

Add a new MAX_LONG_PATH constant and xutftowcs_long_path function for APIs
that support long paths.

While improved error checking is always active, long paths support must be
explicitly enabled via 'core.longpaths' option. This is to prevent end
users from shooting themselves in the foot by checking out files that Windows
Explorer, cmd/bash or their favorite IDE cannot handle.

Test suite:
Test the case is when the full pathname length of a dir is close
to 260 (MAX_PATH).
Bug report and an original reproducer by Andrey Rogozhnikov:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/122#issuecomment-43604199

[jes: adjusted test number to avoid conflicts, added support for
chdir(), etc]

Thanks-to: Martin W. Kirst <maki@bitkings.de>
Thanks-to: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Original-test-by: Andrey Rogozhnikov <rogozhnikov.andrey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
4c518c6ea1 test-tool: learn to act as a drop-in replacement for iconv
It is convenient to assume that everybody who wants to build & test Git
has access to a working `iconv` executable (after all, we already pretty
much require libiconv).

However, that limits esoteric test scenarios such as Git for Windows',
where an end user installation has to ship with `iconv` for the sole
purpose of being testable. That payload serves no other purpose.

So let's just have a test helper (to be able to test Git, the test
helpers have to be available, after all) to act as `iconv` replacement.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Doug Kelly
b563be00fb pack-objects (mingw): demonstrate a segmentation fault with large deltas
There is a problem in the way 9ac3f0e5b3 (pack-objects: fix
performance issues on packing large deltas, 2018-07-22) initializes that
mutex in the `packing_data` struct. The problem manifests in a
segmentation fault on Windows, when a mutex (AKA critical section) is
accessed without being initialized. (With pthreads, you apparently do
not really have to initialize them?)

This was reported in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1839.

Signed-off-by: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
832ff67fc2 mingw: when path_lookup() failed, try BusyBox
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>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
32a5a58ab2 Merge branch 'dont-clean-junctions-fscache'
We already avoid traversing NTFS junction points in `git clean -dfx`.
With this topic branch, we do that when the FSCache is enabled, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
5007623b78 mingw: explicitly specify with which cmd to prefix the cmdline
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>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
4b6e4e10cb Merge remote-tracking branch 'benpeart/fscache-per-thread-gfw'
This brings substantial wins in performance because the FSCache is now
per-thread, being merged to the primary thread only at the end, so we do
not have to lock (except while merging).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
c4c16d6317 clean: make use of FSCache
The `git clean` command needs to enumerate plenty of files and
directories, and can therefore benefit from the FSCache.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
7e51e5802a Merge pull request #1909 from benpeart/free-fscache-after-status-gfw
status: disable and free fscache at the end of the status command
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Ben Peart
b929876e9a fscache: teach fscache to use NtQueryDirectoryFile
Using FindFirstFileExW() requires the OS to allocate a 64K buffer for each
directory and then free it when we call FindClose().  Update fscache to call
the underlying kernel API NtQueryDirectoryFile so that we can do the buffer
management ourselves.  That allows us to allocate a single buffer for the
lifetime of the cache and reuse it for each directory.

This change improves performance of 'git status' by 18% in a repo with ~200K
files and 30k folders.

Documentation for NtQueryDirectoryFile can be found at:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/content/ntifs/nf-ntifs-ntquerydirectoryfile
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/file-attribute-constants
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/fileio/reparse-point-tags

To determine if the specified directory is a symbolic link, inspect the
FileAttributes member to see if the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT flag is
set. If so, EaSize will contain the reparse tag (this is a so far
undocumented feature, but confirmed by the NTFS developers). To
determine if the reparse point is a symbolic link (and not some other
form of reparse point), test whether the tag value equals the value
IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK.

The NtQueryDirectoryFile() call works best (and on Windows 8.1 and
earlier, it works *only*) with buffer sizes up to 64kB. Which is 32k
wide characters, so let's use that as our buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
7060cb329c fscache: implement an FSCache-aware is_mount_point()
When FSCache is active, we can cache the reparse tag and use it directly
to determine whether a path refers to an NTFS junction, without any
additional, costly I/O.

Note: this change only makes a difference with the next commit, which
will make use of the FSCache in `git clean` (contingent on
`core.fscache` set, of course).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
4cf835aee4 Merge branch 'fscache' 2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Ben Peart
7f8a4924d2 status: disable and free fscache at the end of the status command
At the end of the status command, disable and free the fscache so that we
don't leak the memory and so that we can dump the fscache statistics.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Ben Peart
2f36bb9b19 fscache: make fscache_enable() thread safe
The recent change to make fscache thread specific relied on fscache_enable()
being called first from the primary thread before being called in parallel
from worker threads.  Make that more robust and protect it with a critical
section to avoid any issues.

Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00
Johannes Schindelin
25d5f679c4 fscache: remember the reparse tag for each entry
We will use this in the next commit to implement an FSCache-aware
version of is_mount_point().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2026-04-09 01:59:55 +00:00