The mimalloc project [has released a couple
versions](https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc?tab=readme-ov-file#releases)
since we last integrated it into Git for Windows. Let's take the most
recent one.
This PR is structured in the following way:
1. Revert all mimalloc commits, in reverse chronological order (newest
first), marking them as `fixup!`s of the reverted commits.
2. Import (a subset of) mimalloc v2.1.2, marking it as an `amend!` of
the commit that originally imported mimalloc.
3. Replay the remaining mimalloc commits, in chronological order,
marking them as `fixup!`s of the original commits.
Always use the internal "use_weak" random seed when initializing
the "mimalloc" heap when statically linked on Windows.
The imported "mimalloc" routines support several random sources
to seed the heap data structures, including BCrypt.dll and
RtlGenRandom. Crashes have been reported when using BCrypt.dll
if it initialized during an `atexit()` handler function. Granted,
such DLL initialization should not happen in an atexit handler,
but yet the crashes remain.
It should be noted that on Windows when statically linked, the
mimalloc startup code (called by the GCC CRT to initialize static
data prior to calling `main()`) always uses the internal "weak"
random seed. "mimalloc" does not try to load an alternate
random source until after the OS initialization has completed.
Heap data is stored in `__declspec(thread)` TLS data and in theory
each Git thread will have its own heap data. However, testing
shows that the "mimalloc" library doesn't actually call
`os_random_buf()` (to load a new random source) when creating these
new per-thread heap structures.
However, if an atexit handler is forced to run on a non-main
thread, the "mimalloc" library *WILL* try to create a new heap
and seed it with `os_random_buf()`. (The reason for this is still
a mystery to this author.) The `os_random_buf()` call can cause
the (previously uninitialized BCrypt.dll library) to be dynamically
loaded and a call made into it. Crashes have been reported in
v2.40.1.vfs.0.0 while in this call.
As a workaround, the fix here forces the use of the internal
"use_weak" random code for the subsequent `os_random_buf()` calls.
Since we have been using that random generator for the majority
of the program, it seems safe to use it for the final few mallocs
in the atexit handler (of which there really shouldn't be that many.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhostetler@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
By defining `USE_MIMALLOC`, Git can now be compiled with that
nicely-fast and small allocator.
Note that we have to disable a couple `DEVELOPER` options to build
mimalloc's source code, as it makes heavy use of declarations after
statements, among other things that disagree with Git's conventions.
We even have to silence some GCC warnings in non-DEVELOPER mode. For
example, the `-Wno-array-bounds` flag is needed because in `-O2` builds,
trying to call `NtCurrentTeb()` (which `_mi_thread_id()` does on
Windows) causes the bogus warning about a system header, likely related
to https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/37674519/ and to
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99578:
C:/git-sdk-64-minimal/mingw64/include/psdk_inc/intrin-impl.h:838:1:
error: array subscript 0 is outside array bounds of 'long long unsigned int[0]' [-Werror=array-bounds]
838 | __buildreadseg(__readgsqword, unsigned __int64, "gs", "q")
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also: The `mimalloc` library uses C11-style atomics, therefore we must
require that standard when compiling with GCC if we want to use
`mimalloc` (instead of requiring "only" C99). This is what we do in the
CMake definition already, therefore this commit does not need to touch
`contrib/buildsystems/`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We want to compile mimalloc's source code as part of Git, rather than
requiring the code to be built as an external library: mimalloc uses a
CMake-based build, which is not necessarily easy to integrate into the
flavors of Git for Windows (which will be the main benefitting port).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Import the source code of mimalloc v2.1.2
This commit imports mimalloc's source code as per v2.1.2, fetched from
the tag at https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc.
The .c files are from the src/ subdirectory, and the .h files from the
include/ and include/mimalloc/ subdirectories. We will subsequently
modify the source code to accommodate building within Git's context.
Since we plan on using the `mi_*()` family of functions, we skip the
C++-specific source code, some POSIX compliant functions to interact
with mimalloc, and the code that wants to support auto-magic overriding
of the `malloc()` function (mimalloc-new-delete.h, alloc-posix.c,
mimalloc-override.h, alloc-override.c, alloc-override-osx.c,
alloc-override-win.c and static.c).
To appease the `check-whitespace` job of Git's Continuous Integration,
this commit was washed one time via `git rebase --whitespace=fix`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In preparation for upgrading mimalloc to v2.1.2, let's revert this patch
so that we can start afresh, from a clean slate.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Revert this in preparation for upgrading mimalloc to v2.1.2 and then
redoing this patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Revert this in preparation for upgrading mimalloc to v2.1.2 and then
redoing this patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Revert this in preparation for upgrading mimalloc to v2.1.2 and then
redoing this patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
winuser.h contains the definition of RT_MANIFEST that our LLVM based
toolchain needs to understand that we want to embed
compat/win32/git.manifest as an application manifest. It currently just
embeds it as additional data that Windows doesn't understand.
This also helps our GCC based toolchain understand that we only want one
copy embedded. It currently embeds one working assembly manifest and one
nearly identical, but useless copy as additional data.
This also teaches our Visual Studio based buildsystems to pick up the
manifest file from git.rc. This means we don't have to explicitly specify
it in contrib/buildsystems/Generators/Vcxproj.pm anymore. Slightly
counter-intuitively this also means we have to explicitly tell Cmake
not to embed a default manifest.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4707
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Windows 10 version 1511 (also known as Anniversary Update), according to
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences
introduced native support for ANSI sequence processing. This allows
using colors from the entire 24-bit color range.
All we need to do is test whether the console's "virtual processing
support" can be enabled. If it can, we do not even need to start the
`console_thread` to handle ANSI sequences.
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 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>
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>
This patch introduces support to set special NTFS attributes that are
interpreted by the Windows Subsystem for Linux as file mode bits, UID
and GID.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
This is the recommended way on GitHub to describe policies revolving around
security issues and about supported versions.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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>
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>
Git documentation refers to $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME often, but does not specify how or where these values come from on Windows where neither is set by default. The new documentation reflects the behavior of setup_windows_environment() in compat/mingw.c.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Barreto <alejandro.barreto@ni.com>
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>
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>
The Git project followed suite and added their Code of Conduct, based on
the Contributors' Covenant v1.4.
We edit it slightly to reflect Git for Windows' particulars.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Git for Windows project has grown quite complex over the years,
certainly much more complex than during the first years where the
`msysgit.git` repository was abusing Git for package management purposes
and the `git/git` fork was called `4msysgit.git`.
Let's describe the status quo in a thorough way.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
The `xutftowcs_path` function canonicalizes absolute paths using GetFullPathNameW.
This canonicalization may change the length of the string (e.g. getting rid of \.\),
which breaks callers that pass the template string in a strbuf and expect the
length of the string to remain the same.
In my particular case, the tmp-objdir code is passing a strbuf to mkdtemp and is
breaking since the strbuf.len is no longer synchronized with strlen(strbuf.buf).
Signed-off-by: Neeraj K. Singh <neerajsi@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Previously, we did not install any handler for Ctrl+C, but now we really
want to because the MSYS2 runtime learned the trick to call the
ConsoleCtrlHandler when Ctrl+C was pressed.
With this, hitting Ctrl+C while `git log` is running will only terminate
the Git process, but not the pager. This finally matches the behavior on
Linux and on macOS.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) version 2 allows to use `chmod` on
NTFS volumes provided that they are mounted with metadata enabled (see
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/chmod-chown-wsl-improvements/
for details), for example:
$ chmod 0755 /mnt/d/test/a.sh
In order to facilitate better collaboration between the Windows
version of Git and the WSL version of Git, we can make the Windows
version of Git also support reading and writing NTFS file modes
in a manner compatible with WSL.
Since this slightly slows down operations where lots of files are
created (such as an initial checkout), this feature is only enabled when
`core.WSLCompat` is set to true. Note that you also have to set
`core.fileMode=true` in repositories that have been initialized without
enabling WSL compatibility.
There are several ways to enable metadata loading for NTFS volumes
in WSL, one of which is to modify `/etc/wsl.conf` by adding:
```
[automount]
enabled = true
options = "metadata,umask=027,fmask=117"
```
And reboot WSL.
It can also be enabled temporarily by this incantation:
$ sudo umount /mnt/c &&
sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=22,fmask=111
It's important to note that this modification is compatible with, but
does not depend on WSL. The helper functions in this commit can operate
independently and functions normally on devices where WSL is not
installed or properly configured.
Signed-off-by: xungeng li <xungeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
