This topic branch addresses the bug where Git for Windows 2.x' Git GUI
failed to generate a working shortcut via Repository>Create Desktop
Shortcut.
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>
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>
Tcl/Tk 8.6 introduced new events for the cursor left/right keys and
apparently changed the behavior of the previous event.
Let's work around that by using the new events when we are running with
Tcl/Tk 8.6 or later.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/495
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In particular on Windows, where the default maximum path length is quite
small, but there are ways to circumvent that limit in many cases, it is
very important that users be given an indication why their command
failed because of too long paths when it did.
This test case makes sure that a warning is issued that would have
helped the user who reported Git for Windows' issue 521:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/521
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Enable DEP (Data Execution Prevention) and ASLR (Address Space Layout
Randomization) support. This applies to both 32bit and 64bit builds
and makes it substantially harder to exploit security holes in Git by
offering a much more unpredictable attack surface.
ASLR interferes with GDB's ability to set breakpoints. A similar issue
holds true when compiling with -O2 (in which case single-stepping is
messed up because GDB cannot map the code back to the original source
code properly). Therefore we simply enable ASLR only when an
optimization flag is present in the CFLAGS, using it as an indicator
that the developer does not want to debug in GDB anyway.
Signed-off-by: İsmail Dönmez <ismail@i10z.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is the first step for enabling ASLR (Address Space Layout
Randomization) support. We want to enable ASLR for better protection
against exploiting security holes in Git.
The problem fixed by this commit is that `ld.exe` seems to be stripping
relocations which in turn will break ASLR support. We just make sure
it's not stripping the main executable entry.
Signed-off-by: İsmail Dönmez <ismail@i10z.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Just like we support having alternates pointing to different drives, we
want to support alternates pointing to network shares, i.e. UNC paths.
Technically, what we do in this patch is not to support UNC alternates,
but to support UNC paths when normalizing paths. But the latter implies
the former, and the former really was the motivation for this patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Commit 4b623d8 (MSVC: link in invalidcontinue.obj for better
POSIX compatibility, 2014-03-29) introduced invalidcontinue.obj
into the Makefile output, which was not parsed correctly by the
buildsystem. Ignore it, as it is known to Visual Studio and,
there is no matching source file.
Only substitute filenames ending with .o when generating the
source .c filename, otherwise a .cbj file may be expected.
Split the .o and .obj processing; 'make' does not produce .obj
files.
In the future there may be source files that produce .obj files
so keep the two issues (.obj files with & without source files)
separate.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Duncan Smart <duncan.smart@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit d01d71fe1aed67f4e3a5ab80eeadeaf525ad0846)
When a user is registered in a Windows domain, it is really easy to
obtain the email address. So let's do that.
Suggested by Lutz Roeder.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We do have the excellent GetUserInfoEx() function to obtain more
detailed information of the current user (if the user is part of a
Windows domain); Let's use it.
Suggested by Lutz Roeder.
To avoid the cost of loading Secur32.dll (even lazily, loading DLLs
takes a non-neglibile amount of time), we use the established technique
to load DLLs only when, and if, needed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows 2.x ships with an executable that starts the Git Bash
with all the environment variables and what not properly set up. It is
also adjusted according to the Terminal emulator option chosen when
installing Git for Windows (while `bash.exe --login -i` would always
launch with Windows' default console).
So let's use that executable (usually C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe)
instead of `bash.exe --login -i` if its presence was detected.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/490
Signed-off-by: Thomas Kläger <thomas.klaeger@10a.ch>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When calling `Repository>Create Desktop Shortcut`, Git GUI assumes
that it is okay to call `wish.exe` directly on Windows. However, in
Git for Windows 2.x' context, that leaves several crucial environment
variables uninitialized, resulting in a shortcut that does not work.
To fix those environment variable woes, Git for Windows comes with a
convenient `git-gui.exe`, so let's just use it when it is available.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/448
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MSys2 might *look* like Cygwin, but it is *not* Cygwin... Unless it
is run with `MSYSTEM=MSYS`, that is.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We no longer use any of MSVCRT's stat-functions, so there's no need to
stick to a CRT-compatible 'struct stat' either.
Define and use our own POSIX-2013-compatible 'struct stat' with nanosecond-
precision file times.
Note: Due to performance issues when using git variants with different file
time resolutions, this patch does *not* yet enable nanosecond precision in
the Makefile (use 'make USE_NSEC=1').
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
fstat() is the only stat-related CRT function for which we don't have a
full replacement yet (and thus the only reason to stick with MSVCRT's
'struct stat' definition).
Fully implement fstat(), in preparation of implementing a POSIX 2013
compatible 'struct stat' with nanosecond-precision file times.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Reusing cached data speeds up git-svn by quite a fair bit. However, if
the YAML module is unavailable, the caches are written to disk in an
architecture-dependent manner. That leads to problems when upgrading,
say, from 32-bit to 64-bit Git for Windows.
Let's just try to read those caches back if we detect the absence of the
YAML module and the presence of the file, and delete the file if it
could not be read back correctly.
Note that the only way to catch the error when the memoized cache could
not be read back is to put the call inside an `eval { ... }` block
because it would die otherwise; the `eval` block should also return `1`
in case of success explicitly since the function reading back the cached
data does not return an appropriate value to test for success.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/233.
[jes: fixed the commit message, made the sign-off explicit]
Signed-off-by: Gavin Lambert <github@mirality.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, there is no (single) `/etc/` directory. To address that, in
conjunction with the libgit2 project, Git for Windows introduced yet
another level of system-wide config files, located in C:\ProgramData
(and the equivalent on Windows XP).
Let's spell this out in the documentation.
This closes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/470 (because
there was no reaction in three months in that Pull Request).
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>
'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 ...
We *must not* create the leading directories when locking a config file.
It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that the directory exists,
just like it is the caller's responsibility to call `git init` before
running repository operations.
Point in case: if we simply create all leading directories, calling
`git config user.name me` *outside* of a Git worktree will *create*
.git/!
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/643 and
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/git-for-windows/fVRdnDIKVuw
[jes: prevented bogus .git/ directories from being created]
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
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>
