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Merge this early to resolve merge conflicts early. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
That option only matters there, and is in fact only really understood in those builds; UCRT64 versions of GCC, for example, do not know what to do with that option. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When building with `make MSVC=1 DEBUG=1`, link to `libexpatd.lib` rather than `libexpat.lib`. It appears that the `vcpkg` package for "libexpat" has changed and now creates `libexpatd.lib` for debug mode builds. Previously, both debug and release builds created a ".lib" with the same basename. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
On LLP64 systems, such as Windows, the size of `long`, `int`, etc. is only 32 bits (for backward compatibility). Git's use of `unsigned long` for file memory sizes in many places, rather than size_t, limits the handling of large files on LLP64 systems (commonly given as `>4GB`). Provide a minimum test for handling a >4GB file. The `hash-object` command, with the `--literally` and without `-w` option avoids writing the object, either loose or packed. This avoids the code paths hitting the `bigFileThreshold` config test code, the zlib code, and the pack code. Subsequent patches will walk the test's call chain, converting types to `size_t` (which is larger in LLP64 data models) where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In bf2d5d8 (Don't let ld strip relocations, 2016-01-16) (picked from git-for-windows@6a237925bf10), Git for Windows introduced the `-Wl,-pic-executable` flag, specifying the exact entry point via `-e`. This required discerning between i686 and x86_64 code because the former required the symbol to be prefixed with an underscore, the latter did not. As per https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10865, the specified symbols are already the default, though. So let's drop the overly-specific definition. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Continue walking the code path for the >4GB `hash-object --literally` test. The `hash_object_file_literally()` function internally uses both `hash_object_file()` and `write_object_file_prepare()`. Both function signatures use `unsigned long` rather than `size_t` for the mem buffer sizes. Use `size_t` instead, for LLP64 compatibility. While at it, convert those function's object's header buffer length to `size_t` for consistency. The value is already upcast to `uintmax_t` for print format compatibility. Note: The hash-object test still does not pass. A subsequent commit continues to walk the call tree's lower level hash functions to identify further fixes. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MSYS2 already defines a couple of helpful environment variables, and we can use those to infer the installation location as well as the CPU. No need for hard-coding ;-) Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Create a wrapper for the Windows Resource Compiler (RC.EXE) for use by the MSVC=1 builds. This is similar to the CL.EXE and LIB.EXE wrappers used for the MSVC=1 builds. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Continue walking the code path for the >4GB `hash-object --literally`
test to the hash algorithm step for LLP64 systems.
This patch lets the SHA1DC code use `size_t`, making it compatible with
LLP64 data models (as used e.g. by Windows).
The interested reader of this patch will note that we adjust the
signature of the `git_SHA1DCUpdate()` function without updating _any_
call site. This certainly puzzled at least one reviewer already, so here
is an explanation:
This function is never called directly, but always via the macro
`platform_SHA1_Update`, which is usually called via the macro
`git_SHA1_Update`. However, we never call `git_SHA1_Update()` directly
in `struct git_hash_algo`. Instead, we call `git_hash_sha1_update()`,
which is defined thusly:
static void git_hash_sha1_update(git_hash_ctx *ctx,
const void *data, size_t len)
{
git_SHA1_Update(&ctx->sha1, data, len);
}
i.e. it contains an implicit downcast from `size_t` to `unsigned long`
(before this here patch). With this patch, there is no downcast anymore.
With this patch, finally, the t1007-hash-object.sh "files over 4GB hash
literally" test case is fixed.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The tell-tale is the presence of the `MSYSTEM` value while compiling, of course. In that case, we want to ensure that `MSYSTEM` is set when running `git.exe`, and also enable the magic MSYS2 tty detection. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Teach MSVC=1 builds to depend on the `git.rc` file so that the resulting executables have Windows-style resources and version number information within them. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
This compile-time option allows to ask Git to load libcurl dynamically at runtime. Together with a follow-up patch that optionally overrides the file name depending on the `http.sslBackend` setting, this kicks open the door for installing multiple libcurl flavors side by side, and load the one corresponding to the (runtime-)configured SSL/TLS backend. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Just like the `hash-object --literally` code path, the `--stdin` code path also needs to use `size_t` instead of `unsigned long` to represent memory sizes, otherwise it would cause problems on platforms using the LLP64 data model (such as Windows). To limit the scope of the test case, the object is explicitly not written to the object store, nor are any filters applied. The `big` file from the previous test case is reused to save setup time; To avoid relying on that side effect, it is generated if it does not exist (e.g. when running via `sh t1007-*.sh --long --run=1,41`). Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MSYS2 defines some helpful environment variables, e.g. `MSYSTEM`. There is code in Git for Windows to ensure that that `MSYSTEM` variable is set, hard-coding a default. However, the existing solution jumps through hoops to reconstruct the proper default, and is even incomplete doing so, as we found out when we extended it to support CLANGARM64. This is absolutely unnecessary because there is already a perfectly valid `MSYSTEM` value we can use at build time. This is even true when building the MINGW32 variant on a MINGW64 system because `makepkg-mingw` will override the `MSYSTEM` value as per the `MINGW_ARCH` array. The same is equally true for the `/mingw64`, `/mingw32` and `/clangarm64` prefix: those values are already available via the `MINGW_PREFIX` environment variable, and we just need to pass that setting through. Only when `MINGW_PREFIX` is not set (as is the case in Git for Windows' minimal SDK, where only `MSYSTEM` is guaranteed to be set correctly), we use as fall-back the top-level directory whose name is the down-cased value of the `MSYSTEM` variable. Incidentally, this also broadens the support to all the configurations supported by the MSYS2 project, i.e. clang64 & ucrt64, too. Note: This keeps the same, hard-coded MSYSTEM platform support for CMake as before, but drops it for Meson (because it is unclear how Meson could do this in a more flexible manner). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
A change between versions 2.4.1 and 2.6.0 of the MSYS2 runtime modified how Cygwin's runtime (and hence Git for Windows' MSYS2 runtime derivative) handles locales: d16a56306d (Consolidate wctomb/mbtowc calls for POSIX-1.2008, 2016-07-20). An unintended side-effect is that "cold-calling" into the POSIX emulation will start with a locale based on the current code page, something that Git for Windows is very ill-prepared for, as it expects to be able to pass a command-line containing non-ASCII characters to the shell without having those characters munged. One symptom of this behavior: when `git clone` or `git fetch` shell out to call `git-upload-pack` with a path that contains non-ASCII characters, the shell tried to interpret the entire command-line (including command-line parameters) as executable path, which obviously must fail. This fixes git-for-windows#1036 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Ignore the `-fno-stack-protector` compiler argument when building with MSVC. This will be used in a later commit that needs to build a Win32 GUI app. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
This implements the Windows-specific support code, because everything is slightly different on Windows, even loading shared libraries. Note: I specifically do _not_ use the code from `compat/win32/lazyload.h` here because that code is optimized for loading individual functions from various system DLLs, while we specifically want to load _many_ functions from _one_ DLL here, and distinctly not a system DLL (we expect libcurl to be located outside `C:\Windows\system32`, something `INIT_PROC_ADDR` refuses to work with). Also, the `curl_easy_getinfo()`/`curl_easy_setopt()` functions are declared as vararg functions, which `lazyload.h` cannot handle. Finally, we are about to optionally override the exact file name that is to be loaded, which is a goal contrary to `lazyload.h`'s design. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To complement the `--stdin` and `--literally` test cases that verify that we can hash files larger than 4GB on 64-bit platforms using the LLP64 data model, here is a test case that exercises `hash-object` _without_ any options. Just as before, we use the `big` file from the previous test case if it exists to save on setup time, otherwise generate it. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Special-casing even more configurations simply does not make sense. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows wants to add `git.exe` to the users' `PATH`, without cluttering the latter with unnecessary executables such as `wish.exe`. To that end, it invented the concept of its "Git wrapper", i.e. a tiny executable located in `C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe` (originally a CMD script) whose sole purpose is to set up a couple of environment variables and then spawn the _actual_ `git.exe` (which nowadays lives in `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe` for 64-bit, and the obvious equivalent for 32-bit installations). Currently, the following environment variables are set unless already initialized: - `MSYSTEM`, to make sure that the MSYS2 Bash and the MSYS2 Perl interpreter behave as expected, and - `PLINK_PROTOCOL`, to force PuTTY's `plink.exe` to use the SSH protocol instead of Telnet, - `PATH`, to make sure that the `bin` folder in the user's home directory, as well as the `/mingw64/bin` and the `/usr/bin` directories are included. The trick here is that the `/mingw64/bin/` and `/usr/bin/` directories are relative to the top-level installation directory of Git for Windows (which the included Bash interprets as `/`, i.e. as the MSYS pseudo root directory). Using the absence of `MSYSTEM` as a tell-tale, we can detect in `git.exe` whether these environment variables have been initialized properly. Therefore we can call `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git` in-place after this change, without having to call Git through the Git wrapper. Obviously, above-mentioned directories must be _prepended_ to the `PATH` variable, otherwise we risk picking up executables from unrelated Git installations. We do that by constructing the new `PATH` value from scratch, appending `$HOME/bin` (if `HOME` is set), then the MSYS2 system directories, and then appending the original `PATH`. Side note: this modification of the `PATH` variable is independent of the modification necessary to reach the executables and scripts in `/mingw64/libexec/git-core/`, i.e. the `GIT_EXEC_PATH`. That modification is still performed by Git, elsewhere, long after making the changes described above. While we _still_ cannot simply hard-link `mingw64\bin\git.exe` to `cmd` (because the former depends on a couple of `.dll` files that are only in `mingw64\bin`, i.e. calling `...\cmd\git.exe` would fail to load due to missing dependencies), at least we can now avoid that extra process of running the Git wrapper (which then has to wait for the spawned `git.exe` to finish) by calling `...\mingw64\bin\git.exe` directly, via its absolute path. Testing this is in Git's test suite tricky: we set up a "new" MSYS pseudo-root and copy the `git.exe` file into the appropriate location, then verify that `MSYSTEM` is set properly, and also that the `PATH` is modified so that scripts can be found in `$HOME/bin`, `/mingw64/bin/` and `/usr/bin/`. This addresses git-for-windows#2283 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Move the default `-ENTRY` and `-SUBSYSTEM` arguments for MSVC=1 builds from `config.mak.uname` into `clink.pl`. These args are constant for console-mode executables. Add support to `clink.pl` for generating a Win32 GUI application using the `-mwindows` argument (to match how GCC does it). This changes the `-ENTRY` and `-SUBSYSTEM` arguments accordingly. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
The previous commits introduced a compile-time option to load libcurl lazily, but it uses the hard-coded name "libcurl-4.dll" (or equivalent on platforms other than Windows). To allow for installing multiple libcurl flavors side by side, where each supports one specific SSL/TLS backend, let's first look whether `libcurl-<backend>-4.dll` exists, and only use `libcurl-4.dll` as a fall back. That will allow us to ship with a libcurl by default that only supports the Secure Channel backend for the `https://` protocol. This libcurl won't suffer from any dependency problem when upgrading OpenSSL to a new major version (which will change the DLL name, and hence break every program and library that depends on it). This is crucial because Git for Windows relies on libcurl to keep working when building and deploying a new OpenSSL package because that library is used by `git fetch` and `git clone`. Note that this feature is by no means specific to Windows. On Ubuntu, for example, a `git` built using `LAZY_LOAD_LIBCURL` will use `libcurl.so.4` for `http.sslbackend=openssl` and `libcurl-gnutls.so.4` for `http.sslbackend=gnutls`. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Ensure key CMake option values are part of the CMake output to facilitate user support when tool updates impact the wider CMake actions, particularly ongoing 'improvements' in Visual Studio. These CMake displays perform the same function as the build-options.txt provided in the main Git for Windows. CMake is already chatty. The setting of CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS is also reported. Include the environment's CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS value which may have been propogated to CMake's internal value. Testing the CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS processing can be difficult in the Visual Studio environment, as it may be cached in many places. The 'environment' may include the OS, the user shell, CMake's own environment, along with the Visual Studio presets and caches. See previous commit for arefacts that need removing for a clean test. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To verify that the `clean` side of the `clean`/`smudge` filter code is correct with regards to LLP64 (read: to ensure that `size_t` is used instead of `unsigned long`), here is a test case using a trivial filter, specifically _not_ writing anything to the object store to limit the scope of the test case. As in previous commits, the `big` file from previous test cases is reused if available, to save setup time, otherwise re-generated. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In the case of Git for Windows (say, in a Git Bash window) running in a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) directory, the GetNamedSecurityInfoW() call in is_path_owned_By_current_side() returns an error code other than ERROR_SUCCESS. This is consistent behavior across this boundary. In these cases, the owner would always be different because the WSL owner is a different entity than the Windows user. The change here is to suppress the error message that looks like this: error: failed to get owner for '//wsl.localhost/...' (1) Before this change, this warning happens for every Git command, regardless of whether the directory is marked with safe.directory. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
For Windows builds >= 15063 set $env:TERM to "xterm-256color" instead of "cygwin" because they have a more capable console system that supports this. Also set $env:COLORTERM="truecolor" if unset. $env:TERM is initialized so that ANSI colors in color.c work, see 29a3963 (Win32: patch Windows environment on startup, 2012-01-15). See git-for-windows#3629 regarding problems caused by always setting $env:TERM="cygwin". This is the same heuristic used by the Cygwin runtime. Signed-off-by: Rafael Kitover <rkitover@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
NtQueryObject under Wine can return a success but fill out no name. In those situations, Wine will set Buffer to NULL, and set result to the sizeof(OBJECT_NAME_INFORMATION). Running a command such as echo "$(git.exe --version 2>/dev/null)" will crash due to a NULL pointer dereference when the code attempts to null terminate the buffer, although, weirdly, removing the subshell or redirecting stdout to a file will not trigger the crash. Code has been added to also check Buffer and Length to ensure the check is as robust as possible due to the current behavior being fragile at best, and could potentially change in the future This code is based on the behavior of NtQueryObject under wine and reactos. Signed-off-by: Christopher Degawa <ccom@randomderp.com>
Atomic append on windows is only supported on local disk files, and it may cause errors in other situations, e.g. network file system. If that is the case, this config option should be used to turn atomic append off. Co-Authored-By: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: 孙卓识 <sunzhuoshi@gmail.com> 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 improvements by Clive Chan, Adric Norris, Ben Bodenmiller and Philip Oakley. Helped-by: Clive Chan <cc@clive.io> Helped-by: Adric Norris <landstander668@gmail.com> Helped-by: Ben Bodenmiller <bbodenmiller@hotmail.com> Helped-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Brendan Forster <brendan@github.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…ITOR" In e3f7e01 (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>
Handle Ctrl+C in Git Bash nicely 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>
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>
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>
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>
Reintroduce the 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor' config setting (originally added in 0a756b2 (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>
See https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/keeping-your-actions-up-to-date-with-dependabot#enabling-dependabot-version-updates-for-actions for details. 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. Helped-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In this time and age, AI is everywhere. However, it's sometimes not very easy to use. For green-field projects it works quite a bit better than for existing legacy projects. And Git's source code is _quite_ as legacy code as they come... 😁 Now, the only way how AI can be used efficiently with legacy code is by providing enough information by way of prompt context for the AI to have a chance to make any sense of the code. The structure and the architecture is, after all, not designed for AI, but rather the opposite: By virtue of having grown organically over two decades, there is no design that AI coding models would readily grasp. So here is a document that describes all kinds of aspects about this project. The idea is to help AI by providing information that it does not have ingrained in its weights. The idea is to provide information that a human prompter might take for granted, but no coding model will have been trained on specifically. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.5 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…opment This adds an extensive section about resolving merge conflicts during rebases, which happens quite often in Git for Windows' day-to-day. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…opment AGENTS.md: add upstream contribution and worktree guidance Add sections covering the GitGitGadget workflow for contributing to upstream Git, commit message conventions specific to the upstream project, how to manage patch series with dependencies (branch thickets), effective worktree usage including --update-refs for history rewrites, and techniques for analyzing merge-structured topic branches with git replay. These learnings come from a session contributing the safe.bareRepository test preparation patches via GitGitGadget. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
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>
…opment AGENTS.md: document rebase, staging, and log -L tricks for AI agents Add practical recipes for three workflows that are particularly useful when AI agents work with Git: Non-interactive "interactive" rebases using `sed -i 1ib` as a sequence editor to insert a `break` command, then editing the todo file directly via the path from `git rev-parse --git-path rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo`. This avoids the impossible task of driving an interactive editor from an AI agent. Scripted hunk staging via `printf '%s\n' s y q | git add -p`, which feeds predictable keystrokes to the add-patch protocol to stage individual hunks without human interaction. The `git log -L <start>,+<count>:<file>` trick for finding which commit last touched specific lines, enabling an `hg absorb`-like workflow where the agent can identify the right fixup! target surgically rather than grepping through full diffs. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
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>
…opment AGENTS.md: add pre-commit checklist for lint checks Bundle the existing ASCII-only, 80-column, and whitespace validation recipes into a "pre-commit checklist" block that agents should run before every commit. The individual recipes already existed in the Coding Conventions section but were presented as reference material rather than as an actionable workflow step. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6
…updates Start monitoring updates of Git for Windows' component in the open
This was marked as a temporary work-around in 4538ee6 (ci: work around a problem with HTTP/2 vs libcurl v8.10.0 (git-for-windows#5165), 2024-09-24), to help CI builds pass even on macOS. The faulty libcurl version has hence been replaced with plenty of fixed ones, therefore this work-around is no longer necessary. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…opment AGENTS: document learnings from split-index + fsmonitor investigation While investigating a CI failure in the `linux-TEST-vars` job caused by the interaction between the `pt/fsmonitor-linux` and `hn/git-checkout-m-with-stash` topics in `seen`, several debugging techniques proved essential and were not previously documented. The investigation required bisecting the first-parent history of `seen` while temporarily merging the fsmonitor topic at each step. This revealed that `GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes` corrupts the bisect machinery's own index operations unless it is unset before cleanup checkouts. It also revealed that `fprintf(stderr, ...)` instrumentation in Git's C code is swallowed by the test framework, making Trace2 the correct instrumentation approach. A key insight was that the bug appeared Linux-specific only because `linux-TEST-vars` is the sole CI job setting `GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=yes`; there is no macOS or Windows equivalent. The actual root cause (the `index.skipHash=true` + split-index interaction producing a null `base_oid` in the shared index) is platform-independent. Add four documentation sections capturing these learnings: bisecting `seen` interactions, reproducing with exact CI variables, verifying CI platform coverage before concluding platform-specificity, and using Trace2 for instrumentation inside the test framework. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Add a README.md for GitHub goodness. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This corresponds to gitgitgadget#2097.
This was a preparatory commit for the path-walk API, which has since been upstreamed into v2.54.0. During the merging-rebase, the code changes this commit introduced were already present in the new base, leaving it empty. Drop it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…it-for-windows#6198) AI-assisted contributions are a reality of open source in 2025 and beyond. Contributors will use AI tools, and that includes the maintainers themselves. Over recent months, I have found AI increasingly useful for the kind of menial, tedious work that does not require much creativity but is highly boring when done by hand: resolving merge conflicts during merging-rebases, chasing down CI failures across platforms, adapting downstream patches to upstream API changes. To that end, I would like to have an `AGENTS.md` file in the code base that helps any LLM to understand the context of the project. A secondary goal of this is to preemptively help outside contributors. The risk is not AI usage per se, but low-quality AI slop: contributions where the human hits "accept" without sufficient context being available to the model (and without proper review by the human, we've all been there), resulting in changes that miss conventions, break patterns, or misunderstand the project's architecture. Git's source code is about as legacy as they come, having grown organically over two decades with no design that AI coding models would readily grasp from a narrow code sample alone. This `AGENTS.md` is designed to raise the floor on AI-assisted contributions by providing enough context that even when a human contributor fails to steer carefully, the model has the information it needs to produce something reasonable. It documents the repository structure, build process, test conventions, the object model and ODB internals, debugging techniques (Trace2, instrumenting tests, bisecting failures), the merging-rebase workflow, conflict resolution patterns, coding conventions (ASCII only, 80 columns, tabs), commit message expectations, and the GitGitGadget contribution workflow. This is information that a human might take for granted, but no coding model will have been trained on specifically. Similar `AGENTS.md` files have recently been added to other repositories in the Git for Windows project: [MINGW-packages](git-for-windows/MINGW-packages#194), [git-for-windows.github.io](git-for-windows/git-for-windows.github.io#88) and [msys2-runtime](git-for-windows/msys2-runtime@1e0ff37).
…erver Bump actions/checkout from v5 to v6 and git-for-windows/setup-git-for-windows-sdk from v1 to v2. Both bumps are Node.js 20 to Node.js 24 runtime migrations with no functional changes to the actions themselves. checkout v6 moves persisted credentials to `` instead of `.git/config`, which does not affect this workflow since no subsequent steps rely on the credential location. The setup-sdk v2 provisions the same minimal SDK as v1. Risk: very low. The only precondition is a recent Actions Runner, which github.com-hosted runners already satisfy. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Over time, as upstream Git absorbs fixes and features that originated in or were carried by Git for Windows, downstream patches accumulate that are no longer needed. The steady stream of merged PRs makes this virtually inevitable. This PR collects fixup! commits to drop three such patches during the next autosquash rebase. The HTTP/2 workaround in `t5551` was a temporary fix for a libcurl v8.10.0 regression on macOS CI runners. The faulty libcurl has long been superseded by fixed versions, making it unnecessary. The `unix-socket: avoid leak when initialization fails` patch changed `return -1` to `goto fail` in `unix_stream_connect()` so cleanup would run when `unix_sockaddr_init()` failed. Upstream fixed the same leak more surgically in c5fe29f (unix-socket: fix memory leak when chdir(3p) fails, 2025-01-30) by having `unix_sockaddr_init()` call `FREE_AND_NULL(ctx->orig_dir)` before returning, making the downstream caller-side fix redundant. The `revision: create mark_trees_uninteresting_dense()` commit was a preparatory patch for the path-walk API. That API has since been upstreamed, and this commit became empty during the merging-rebase because its changes were already in the new base.
When building with `make DEVELOPER=1` we explicitly pass "-std=gnu99" to
the compiler so that we don't start leaning on features exposed by more
recent versions of the C standard. Unfortunately though, glibc 2.43
started to use type-generic expressions. This works alright with GCC,
but when compiling with Clang this leads to errors:
$ make DEVELOPER=1 CC=clang
CC daemon.o
In file included from daemon.c:3:
./git-compat-util.h:344:11: error: '_Generic' is a C11 extension [-Werror,-Wc11-extensions]
344 | return !!strchr(path, '/');
| ^
/usr/include/string.h:265:3: note: expanded from macro 'strchr'
265 | __glibc_const_generic (S, const char *, strchr (S, C))
| ^
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys/cdefs.h:838:3: note: expanded from macro '__glibc_const_generic'
838 | _Generic (0 ? (PTR) : (void *) 1, \
| ^
In theory, the `__glibc_const_generic` macro does have feature gating:
#if !defined __cplusplus \
&& (__GNUC_PREREQ (4, 9) \
|| __glibc_has_extension (c_generic_selections) \
|| (!defined __GNUC__ && defined __STDC_VERSION__ \
&& __STDC_VERSION__ >= 201112L))
# define __HAVE_GENERIC_SELECTION 1
#else
# define __HAVE_GENERIC_SELECTION 0
#endif
But this feature gating isn't effective because `_has_extension()` will
always evaluate to true as C generics _are_ available as a language
extension to GNU C99 when using Clang. This would have been different if
`_has_feature()` was used instead, in which case it would have properly
evaluated to `false`.
Unfortunately, there is no easy way for us to work around the warning.
We cannot define `__HAVE_GENERIC_SELECTION` ourselves as that would lead
to a redefinition, and given that the conditions are or'd together we
cannot disable any of those, either.
Instead, work around the issue by not using -std=gnu99 with Clang when
using the Makefile and by disabling warnings about C11 extensions when
using Meson. This isn't ideal, but we at least retain the ability to
detect the (mis-)use of features from newer standards with GCC.
An alternative to this might be to simply bump the required C standard
to C11, which is 15 years old by now and should have support on most
platforms out there. But some more esoteric platforms may not have it.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…windows#6220) This includes gitgitgadget#2097 and a `fixup!` for a workflow that is not upstream (Nano Server).
…indows#6233) The `linux-{asan-ubsan,sha256,reftable}` jobs run inside `ubuntu:rolling`, which now resolves to Ubuntu 26.04 with glibc 2.43; that pulls `_Generic` into `<sys/cdefs.h>` and breaks our `-std=gnu99 -Werror` Clang builds. Concrete failure: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/actions/runs/25390480083/job/74463338845. Picking up Patrick Steinhardt's fix from https://lore.kernel.org/git/20260505-b4-pks-ci-tolerate-glibc-generic-v1-1-5786386fe512@pks.im/ ahead of its upstream merge so the GfW CI goes green again. The diff conflicts with `fe5704a3695c "mimalloc: offer a build-time option to enable it"`, which wraps the affected `config.mak.dev` block in `ifndef USE_MIMALLOC`; the resolution preserves that wrap on the `gcc6`-only branch surviving Patrick's patch. `meson.build` auto-merged.
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