Git for Windows lags a little bit behind with the 2.x releases because
the Git for Windows developers wanted to let that big jump coincide with
a well-needed overhaul of the context within which Git for Windows is
developed.
To understand why this is such a big issue, it needs to be noted that
many parts of Git are not written in portable C, but instead relies on a
POSIX shell and Perl to be available. Even in the portable C part, there
is the ingrained notion that we can work with UTF-8 encoded strings.
To support the scripts, Git for Windows has to ship a minimal POSIX
emulation layer with Bash and Perl thrown in, and when the Git for
Windows effort started originally, in August 2007, we settled on using
MSys, a stripped down version of Cygwin. Consequently, the original name
of the project was "msysGit" (which, sadly, caused a *lot* of confusion
because few Windows users know about MSys, and even less care).
To compile the C code of Git for Windows, we used MSys, too: it sports
an additional version of the GNU C Compiler that targets the plain
Win32 API (with a few convenience functions thrown in) instead of the
POSIX emulation layer that would require the MSys runtime to run the
compiled programs. That way, Git for Windows' executable(s) are really
just Win32 programs. To discern executables requiring the POSIX
emulation layer from the ones that do not, the latter are called MinGW
(Minimal GNU for Windows) when the former are called MSys executables.
This reliance on MSys incurred challenges, too, though: some of our
changes to the MSys runtime -- necessary to support Git for Windows
better -- were not accepted upstream, the MSys runtime was not developed
further to support e.g. UTF-8 or 64-bit, and apart from not having a
package management system until much later (when mingw-get was
introduced), many packages provided by the MSys/MinGW project lag behind
the respective source code versions, in particular Bash and OpenSSL. For
a while, the Git for Windows project tried to remedy the situation by
trying to build newer versions of those packages, but the situation
quickly became untenable, especially with problems like the Heartbleed
bug requiring swift action and Git for Windows contributors being scarce
-- despite millions of downloads suggesting that there are many users.
After a brief push in the direction of mingw-get, thanks to the
long-time contributor and co-maintainer Sebastian Schuberth, it became
clear that we need to look for alternatives.
Happily, in the meantime the MSys2 project (https://msys2.github.io/)
emerged, and was chosen to be the base of the Git for Windows 2.x. MSys2
is a rewrite of the spirit of MSys: it is again a stripped down version
of Cygwin, but it is actively kept up-to-date with Cygwin's source code.
Thereby, it already supports Unicode internally, and it also offers the
64-bit support that we yearned for since the beginning of the Git for
Windows project.
MSys2 also ported the Pacman package management system from Arch Linux
and uses it heavily. This brings the same convenience to which Linux
users are used to from `yum` or `apt-get`, and to which MacOSX users are
used to from Homebrew or MacPorts, or BSD users from the Ports system,
to MSys2: a simple `pacman -Syu` will update all installed packages to
the newest versions currently available.
MSys2 is also *very* active, typically providing package updates
multiple times per week.
It still required a two-month effort to bring everything to a state
where Git's test suite passes, and a couple of patches await their
submission to the respective upstream projects. Yet without MSys2, the
modernization of Git for Windows would simply not have happened.
This commit lays the ground work to supporting MSys2-based Git builds.
Assisted-by: Waldek Maleska <weakcamel@users.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
squash! config.mak.uname: support MSys2
Make sure that the nedmalloc patch is applied before.
With MSys2's GCC, `ReadWriteBarrier` is already defined, and FORCEINLINE
unfortunately gets defined incorrectly.
Let's work around both problems, using the MSys2-specific
__MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR constant to guard them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The excellent MSys2 project brings a substantially updated MinGW
environment including newer GCC versions and new headers. To support
compiling Git, let's special-case the new MinGW (tell-tale: the
_MINGW64_VERSION_MAJOR constant is defined).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MSys2's strace facility is very useful for debugging... With this patch,
the bash will be executed through strace if the environment variable
GIT_STRACE_COMMANDS is set, which comes in real handy when investigating
issues in the test suite.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This way the libraries get properly installed into the "site_perl"
directory and we just have to move them out of the "mingw" directory.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
On Windows, we would like to be able to have a default http.sslCAinfo
that points to an MSys path (i.e. relative to the installation root of
Git). As Git is a MinGW program, it has to handle the conversion
of the MSys path into a MinGW32 path itself.
Since system_path() considers paths starting with '/' as absolute, we
have to convince it to make a Windows path by stripping the leading
slash.
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.
Therefore we came to a consensus to use %PROGRAMDATA%\Git as the
location for Git-specific files that are of wider interest than just Git
for Windows.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
"diff-highlight" (in contrib/) used to show byte-by-byte
differences, which meant that multi-byte characters can be chopped
in the middle. It learned to pay attention to character boundaries
(assuming the UTF-8 payload).
* jk/colors:
diff-highlight: do not split multibyte characters
Test fixes.
* jk/test-annoyances:
t5551: make EXPENSIVE test cheaper
t5541: move run_with_cmdline_limit to test-lib.sh
t: pass GIT_TRACE through Apache
t: redirect stderr GIT_TRACE to descriptor 4
t: translate SIGINT to an exit
MSys2 emulates pseudo terminals via named pipes, and isatty() returns 0
for such file descriptors. Therefore, some interactive functionality (such
as launching a pager, asking if a failed unlink should be repeated etc.)
doesn't work when run in a terminal emulator that uses MSys ptys (such as
mintty).
However, MSys uses special names for its pty pipes ('msys-*-pty*'), which
allows us to distinguish them from normal piped input / output.
On startup, check if stdin / stdout / stderr are connected to such pipes
using the NtQueryObject API from NTDll.dll. If the names match, adjust the
flags in MSVCRT's ioinfo structure accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
This reverts commit 04cde2429a.
The MSYS_TTY_HANDLES trick doesn't work in a second shell window.
Additionally, #undef'ing 'isatty()' at the top of mingw.c breaks yes / no
questions (ask_yes_no_if_possible()) and probably other uses of isatty()
in mingw.c.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
For performance reasons `stdout` is not unbuffered by default. That leads
to problems if after printing to `stdout` a read on `stdin` is performed.
For that reason interactive commands like `git clean -i` do not function
properly anymore if the `stdout` is not flushed by `fflush(stdout)` before
trying to read from `stdin`.
In the case of `git clean -i` all reads on `stdin` were preceded by a
`fflush(stdout)` call.
Signed-off-by: nalla <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
When building the `doc` with `asciidoctor`, `asciidoctor` complains about
a nested code block in a callout list. This is a really dirty solution to
restore the callout list to function properly. There is a minimal visual
sideeffect; the *immitated* codeblock has no overall greyish background.
Instead the individual lines have it.
Note: When building this patch with `asciidoc` the background is totally
gone but the font is still monospaced.
Signed-off-by: nalla <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
The `user-manual.txt` ist designed as a `book` but the `Makefile` wants to
build it as an `article`. This seems to be a problem when building the
documentation with `asciidoctor`. Furthermore the parts *Git Glossary*
and *Apendix B* had no subsections which is not allowed when building with
`asciidoctor`. So lets add a *dummy* section.
Signed-off-by: nalla <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
In this developers' setup, HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H is apparently defined, but
we *really* want to override the locale_charset() here.
Reminder: at the next merging rebase, fix the ACP typo as requested by
Karsten.
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>
Lets keep the environment initialization and conversion section as lean as
possible and move recently added tweaks to setup_windows_environment().
This fixes the following potential problems:
* Prevent duplicate TZ variables if both TZ and MSYS2_TZ are set.
* Some of the higher level x* APIs from wrapper.c require a working
getenv(), using e.g. xstrdup() during initialization is dangerous.
* Slashifying the Windows TMP variable may break native Windows programs,
use POSIX TMPDIR instead.
* Properly slashify TMPDIR even if it is already set, and also if we only
have TEMP, but not TMP.
* Reduce complexity from O(n) to O(log n).
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
git-wrapper fails to initialize HOME correctly if $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
points to a disconnected network drive.
Check if the directory exists before using $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH.
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.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
