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The vcpkg downloads may not succeed. Warn careful readers of the time out. A simple retry will usually resolve the issue. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
Git's regular Makefile mentions that HOST_CPU should be defined when cross-compiling Git: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/blob/37796bca76ef4180c39ee508ca3e42c0777ba444/Makefile#L438-L439 This is then used to set the GIT_HOST_CPU variable when compiling Git: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/blob/37796bca76ef4180c39ee508ca3e42c0777ba444/Makefile#L1337-L1341 Then, when the user runs `git version --build-options`, it returns that value: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/blob/37796bca76ef4180c39ee508ca3e42c0777ba444/help.c#L658 This commit adds the same functionality to the CMake configuration. Users can now set -DHOST_CPU= to set the target architecture. Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
As reported in newren/git-filter-repo#225, it looks like 99 bytes is not really sufficient to represent e.g. the full path to Python when installed via Windows Store (and this path is used in the hasb bang line when installing scripts via `pip`). Let's increase it to what is probably the maximum sensible path size: MAX_PATH. This makes `parse_interpreter()` in line with what `lookup_prog()` handles. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Vilius Šumskas <vilius@sumskas.eu>
We used to have that `make vcxproj` hack, but a hack it is. In the meantime, we have a much cleaner solution: using CMake, either explicitly, or even more conveniently via Visual Studio's built-in CMake support (simply open Git's top-level directory via File>Open>Folder...). Let's let the `README` reflect this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This adds support for a new http.sslAutoClientCert config value. In cURL 7.77 or later the schannel backend does not automatically send client certificates from the Windows Certificate Store anymore. This config value is only used if http.sslBackend is set to "schannel", and can be used to opt in to the old behavior and force cURL to send client certificates. This fixes git-for-windows#3292 Signed-off-by: Pascal Muller <pascalmuller@gmail.com>
Because `git subtree` (unlike most other `contrib` modules) is included as part of the standard release of Git for Windows, its stability should be verified as consistently as it is for the rest of git. By including the `git subtree` tests in the CI workflow, these tests are as much of a gate to merging and indicator of stability as the standard test suite. Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
This is no longer true in general, not with supporting Clang out of the box. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This option was added in fa93bb2 (MinGW: Fix stat definitions to work with MinGW runtime version 4.0, 2013-09-11), i.e. a _long_ time ago. So long, in fact, that it still targeted MinGW. But we switched to mingw-w64 in 2015, which seems not to share the problem, and therefore does not require a fix. Even worse: This flag is incompatible with UCRT64, which we are about to support by way of upstreaming `mingw-w64-git` to the MSYS2 project, see msys2/MINGW-packages#26470 for details. So let's send that option into its well-deserved retirement. 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>
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>
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>
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>
Merge this early to resolve merge conflicts early. 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>
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>
In Git-for-Windows, work on using ARM64 has progressed. The commit 2d94b77 (cmake: allow building for Windows/ARM64, 2020-12-04) failed to notice that /compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_install.bat will default to using the "x64-windows" architecture for the vcpkg installation if not set, but CMake is not told of this default. Commit 635b6d9 (vcbuild: install ARM64 dependencies when building ARM64 binaries, 2020-01-31) later updated vcpkg_install.bat to accept an arch (%1) parameter, but retained the default. This default is neccessary for the use case where the project directory is opened directly in Visual Studio, which will find and build a CMakeLists.txt file without any parameters, thus expecting use of the default setting. Also Visual studio will generate internal .sln solution and .vcxproj project files needed for some extension tools. Inform users of the additional .sln/.vcxproj generation. ** How to test: rm -rf '.vs' # remove old visual studio settings rm -rf 'compat/vcbuild/vcpkg' # remove any vcpkg downloads rm -rf 'contrib/buildsystems/out' # remove builds & CMake artifacts with a fresh Visual Studio Community Edition, File>>Open>>(git *folder*) to load the project (which will take some time!). check for successful compilation. The implicit .sln (etc.) are in the hidden .vs directory created by Visual Studio. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
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>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
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>
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:
msysgit#122 (comment)
[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>
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>
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 git-for-windows#4586. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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>
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>
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: git-for-windows#2715 Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
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>
…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>
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>
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>
The Git project followed Git for Windows' lead and added their Code of Conduct, based on the Contributor Covenant v1.4, later updated to v2.0. We adapt it slightly to Git for Windows. 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>
Includes touch-ups by 마누엘, Philip Oakley and 孙卓识. 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>
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>
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>
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>
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 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>
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>
…updates Start monitoring updates of Git for Windows' component in the open
Upstream Git does not test their tags with the expensive set of tests, so a couple of them seem quite broken for now, even so much as hanging indefinitely. It is outside of the responsibility of the Git for Windows project to fix upstream's own tests for platforms other than Windows, so let's not exercise them. 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>
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