This topic branch conflicts with the next change that will change the
way we call `CreateProcessW()`. So let's merge it early, to avoid merge
conflicts during a merge (because we would have to resolve this with
every single merging-rebase).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The environment variable `HOME` is not exactly a native concept on
Windows, but Git and its scripts rely heavily on it. Make sure that it
is set (using a default that is sensible in most cases, and can easily
be overridden by setting the user-wide environment variable `HOME`
explicitly, before starting Git).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The idea of the C runtime on Windows as to what a locale is does not
mesh well with the idea Git has. So let's just ignore the C runtime.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MSYS2 inherits the trick from Cygwin to pretend that filenames can
contain characters that are illegal on Windows (by mapping them to a
private Unicode page). As long as we stay safely within the MSYS2 realm
(Bash, GNU make, Perl) that is fine, so technically this change is not
needed. But it is a lot more elegant not to rely on this.
Besides, the suffix `.new` is a lot more intuitive than the suffix
`+`...
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is GCC's attempt at making things less predictable and thereby
reduce the attack surface for malware.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Windows executables can be configured to make use of certain Windows
features only via a so-called "manifest", i.e. a specific, embedded
resource. This manifest is also necessary to determine the Windows
version reliably.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows ships with a subset of MSYS2, and tries to integrate
smoothly, so we want to install the documentation in the location that
is recommended by MSYS2.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch fixes the usage pattern where files are still held
open with an exclusive lock when an external program is asked to open
those very same files.
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 avoids spawning `gzip` when asking `git archive` to
create `.tar.gz` files.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When compiling Git with a runtime prefix (so that it can be installed
into any location, finding its libexec/ directory relative to the
location of the `git` executable), it is convenient to provide
"absolute" Unix-y paths e.g. for http.sslCAInfo, and have those absolute
paths be resolved relative to the runtime prefix.
This patch makes it so for Windows. It is up for discussion whether we
want this for other platforms, too, as long as building with
RUNTIME_PREFIX.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch teaches Git to accept UNC paths of the form
file://host/share/repository.git.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch allows us to specify absolute paths without the drive
prefix e.g. when cloning.
Example:
C:\Users\me> git clone https://github.com/git/git \upstream-git
This will clone into a new directory C:\upstream-git, in line with how
Windows interprets absolute paths.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This fixes a bug where a .git directory at the root of a network share
(e.g. \\MYSERVER\sharedfolder\.git) was not handled correctly.
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>
In 06f5608c14 (bisect--helper: `bisect_start` shell function partially
in C, 2019-01-02), we introduced a call to `get_oid()` and did not check
whether it succeeded before using its output.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch adds the (experimental) --stdin/-z options to `git
reset`. Those patches are still under review in the upstream Git project,
but are already merged in their experimental form into Git for Windows'
`master` branch, in preparation for a MinGit-only release.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In bff014dac7 (builtin rebase: support the `verbose` and `diffstat`
options, 2018-09-04), we added a line that wanted to remove the
`REBASE_DIFFSTAT` bit from the flags, but it used an incorrect negation.
Found by Coverity.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To avoid running into command line limitations, some of Git's commands
support the `--stdin` option.
Let's use exactly this option in the three rev-list/log invocations in
gitk that would otherwise possibly run the danger of trying to invoke a
too-long command line.
While it is easy to redirect either stdin or stdout in Tcl/Tk scripts,
what we need here is both. We need to capture the output, yet we also
need to pipe in the revs/files arguments via stdin (because stdin does
not have any limit, unlike the command line). To help this, we use the
neat Tcl feature where you can capture stdout and at the same time feed
a fixed string as stdin to the spawned process.
One non-obvious aspect about this change is that the `--stdin` option
allows to specify revs, the double-dash, and files, but *no* other
options such as `--not`. This is addressed by prefixing the "negative"
revs with `^` explicitly rather than relying on the `--not` option
(thanks for coming up with that idea, Max!).
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1987
Analysis-and-initial-patch-by: Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
From the documentation of said setting:
This boolean will enable fsync() when writing object files.
This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that
orders data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems
that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or
that only journal metadata and not file contents (OS X’s HFS+,
or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
The most common file system on Windows (NTFS) does not guarantee that
order, therefore a sudden loss of power (or any other event causing an
unclean shutdown) would cause corrupt files (i.e. files filled with
NULs). Therefore we need to change the default.
Note that the documentation makes it sound as if this causes really bad
performance. In reality, writing loose objects is something that is done
only rarely, and only a handful of files at a time.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On some older Windows versions (e.g. Windows 7), the CreateProcessW()
function does not really support spaces in its first argument,
lpApplicationName. But it supports passing NULL as lpApplicationName,
which makes it figure out the application from the (possibly quoted)
first argument of lpCommandLine.
Let's use that trick (if we are certain that the first argument matches
the executable's path) to support launching programs whose path contains
spaces.
We will abuse the test-fake-ssh.exe helper to verify that this works and
does not regress.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/692
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>
HOME initialization was historically duplicated in many different places,
including /etc/profile, launch scripts such as git-bash.vbs and gitk.cmd,
and (although slightly broken) in the git-wrapper.
Even unrelated projects such as GitExtensions and TortoiseGit need to
implement the same logic to be able to call git directly.
Initialize HOME in git's own startup code so that we can eventually retire
all the duplicate initialization code.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Git on native Windows exclusively uses UTF-8 for console output (both with
MinTTY and native Console windows). Gettext uses setlocale() to determine
the output encoding for translated text, however, MSVCRT's setlocale()
doesn't support UTF-8. As a result, translated text is encoded in system
encoding (GetAPC()), and non-ASCII chars are mangled in console output.
Use gettext's bind_textdomain_codeset() to force the encoding to UTF-8 on
native Windows.
In this developers' setup, HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H is apparently defined, but
we *really* want to override the locale_charset() here.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
A '+' is not a valid part of a filename with Windows file systems (it is
reserved because the '+' operator meant file concatenation back in the
DOS days).
Let's just not use it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
As suggested privately to Brendan Forster by some unnamed person
(suggestion for the future: use the public mailing list, or even the
public GitHub issue tracker, that is a much better place to offer such
suggestions), we should make use of gcc's stack smashing protector that
helps detect stack buffer overruns early.
Rather than using -fstack-protector, we use -fstack-protector-strong
because it strikes a better balance between how much code is affected
and the performance impact.
In a local test (time git log --grep=is -p), best of 5 timings went from
23.009s to 22.997s (i.e. the performance impact was *well* lost in the
noise).
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/501
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows >= Vista, not having an application manifest with a
requestedExecutionLevel can cause several kinds of confusing behavior.
The first and more obvious behavior is "Installer Detection", where
Windows sometimes decides (by looking at things like the file name and
even sequences of bytes within the executable) that an executable is an
installer and should run elevated (causing the well-known popup dialog
to appear). In Git's context, subcommands such as "git patch-id" or "git
update-index" fall prey to this behavior.
The second and more confusing behavior is "File Virtualization". It
means that when files are written without having write permission, it
does not fail (as expected), but they are instead redirected to
somewhere else. When the files are read, the original contents are
returned, though, not the ones that were just written somewhere else.
Even more confusing, not all write accesses are redirected; Trying to
write to write-protected .exe files, for example, will fail instead of
redirecting.
In addition to being unwanted behavior, File Virtualization causes
dramatic slowdowns in Git (see for instance
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=320).
There are two ways to prevent those two behaviors: Either you embed an
application manifest within all your executables, or you add an external
manifest (a file with the same name followed by .manifest) to all your
executables. Since Git's builtins are hardlinked (or copied), it is
simpler and more robust to embed a manifest.
A recent enough MSVC compiler should already embed a working internal
manifest, but for MinGW you have to do so by hand.
Very lightly tested on Wine, where like on Windows XP it should not make
any difference.
References:
- New UAC Technologies for Windows Vista
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx
- Create and Embed an Application Manifest (UAC)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx
[js: simplified the embedding dramatically by reusing Git for Windows'
existing Windows resource file, removed the optional (and dubious)
processorArchitecture attribute of the manifest's assemblyIdentity
section.]
Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When running an external diff from, say, a diff tool, it is safe to
assume that we want to write the files in question. On Windows, that
means that there cannot be any other process holding an open handle to
said files.
So let's make sure that `git diff` itself is not holding any open handle
to the files in question.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1315
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
For many Win32 functions, there actually exist two variants: one with
the `A` suffix that takes ANSI parameters (`char *` or `const char *`)
and one with the `W` suffix that takes Unicode parameters (`wchar_t *`
or `const wchar_t *`).
Let's be precise what we want to use.
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.
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.
Helped-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
... because we can, now.
We specifically reduce the number of parallel links for MSVC, as RAM
usage is an issue with MSVC's parallel mode, manifested in the symptom:
fatal error LNK1318: Unexpected PDB error; OK (0) ''
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This was a left-over from the previous YAML schema, and it no longer
works. The problem was noticed while editing `azure-pipelines.yml` in VS
Code with the very helpful "Azure Pipelines" extension (syntax
highlighting and intellisense for `azure-pipelines.yml`...).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The return value of that function is 0 both for variables that are
unset, as well as for variables whose values are empty. To discern those
two cases, one has to call `GetLastError()`, whose return value is
`ERROR_ENVVAR_NOT_FOUND` and `ERROR_SUCCESS`, respectively.
Except that it is not actually set to `ERROR_SUCCESS` in the latter
case, apparently, but the last error value seems to be simply unchanged.
To work around this, let's just re-set the last error value just before
inspecting the environment variable.
This fixes a problem that triggers failures in t3301-notes.sh (where we
try to override config settings by passing empty values for certain
environment variables).
This problem is hidden in the MINGW build by the fact that older
MSVC runtimes (such as the one used by MINGW builds) have a `calloc()`
that re-sets the last error value in case of success, while newer
runtimes set the error value only if `NULL` is returned by that
function.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We frequently build Git using the `DEVELOPER=1` make setting as a
shortcut to enable all kinds of more stringent compiler warnings.
Those compiler warnings are relatively specific to GCC, though, so let's
try our best to translate them to the equivalent options to pass to MS
Visual C++'s `cl.exe`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
