The original purpose of the Git wrapper is to run from inside Git for
Windows' /cmd/ directory, to allow setting up some environment variables
before Git is allowed to take over.
Due to differences in the file system layout, MSys2 requires some
changes for that to work.
In addition, we must take care to set the `MSYSTEM` environment variable
to `MINGW32` or `MINGW64`, respectively, to allow MSys2 to be configured
correctly in case Git launches a shell or Perl script.
We also need to change the `TERM` variable to `cygwin` instead of
`msys`, otherwise the pager `less.exe` (spawned e.g. by `git log`) will
simply crash with a message similar to this one:
1 [main] less 9832 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile:
Dumping stack trace to less.exe.stackdump
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This reduces the disk footprint of a full Git for Windows setup
dramatically because on Windows, one cannot assume that hard links are
supported.
The net savings are calculated easily: the 32-bit `git.exe` file weighs
in with 7662 kB while the `git-wrapper.exe` file (modified to serve as a
drop-in replacement for builtins) weighs a scant 21 kB. At this point,
there are 109 builtins which results in a total of 813 MB disk space
being freed up by this commit.
Yes, that is really more than half a gigabyte.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git started out as a bunch of separate commands, in the true Unix spirit.
Over time, more and more functionality was shared between the different
Git commands, though, so it made sense to introduce the notion of
"builtins": programs that are actually integrated into the main Git
executable.
These builtins can be called in two ways: either by specifying a
subcommand as the first command-line argument, or -- for backwards
compatibility -- by calling the Git executable hardlinked to a filename
of the form "git-<subcommand>". Example: the "log" command can be called
via "git log <parameters>" or via "git-log <parameters>". The latter
form is actually deprecated and only supported for scripts; calling
"git-log" interactively will not even work by default because the
libexec/git-core/ directory is not in the PATH.
All of this is well and groovy as long as hard links are supported.
Sadly, this is not the case in general on Windows. So it actually hurts
quite a bit when you have to fall back to copying all of git.exe's
currently 7.5MB 109 times, just for backwards compatibility.
The simple solution would be to install really trivial shell script
wrappers in place of the builtins:
for builtin in $BUILTINS
do
rm git-$builtin.exe
printf '#!/bin/sh\nexec git %s "$@"\n' $builtin > git-builtin
chmod a+x git-builtin
done
This method would work -- even on Windows because Git for Windows ships a
full-fledged Bash. However, the Windows Bash comes at a price: it needs to
spin up a full-fledged POSIX emulation layer everytime it starts.
Therefore, the shell script solution would incur a significant performance
penalty.
The best solution the Git for Windows team could come up with is to extend
the Git wrapper -- that is needed to call Git from cmd.exe anyway, and
that weighs in with a scant 19KB -- to also serve as a drop-in replacement
for the builtins so that the following workaround is satisfactory:
for builtin in $BUILTINS
do
cp git-wrapper.exe git-$builtin.exe
done
This commit allows for this, by extending the module file parsing to
turn builtin command names like `git-log.exe ...` into calls to the main
Git executable: `git.exe log ...`.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This prepares the wrapper for modifications to serve as a drop-in
replacement for the builtins.
This commit's diff is best viewed with the `-w` flag.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We take care to embed the manifest, too, because we will modify the
wrapper in the next few commits to serve as a drop-in replacement for
the built-ins, i.e. we will want to call the wrapper under names such
as 'git-patch-id.exe', too.
To allow 32-bit and 64-bit builds in the same directory, we let
git-wrapper.o depend on GIT-PREFIX so that it gets recompiled when
compiling for a different architecture.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, Git is faced by the challenge that it has to set up certain
environment variables before running Git under special circumstances
such as when Git is called directly from cmd.exe (i.e. outside any
Bash environment).
This source code was taken from msysGit's commit 74a198d:
https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/blob/74a198d/src/git-wrapper/git-wrapper.c
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the
documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository.
Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html
instead.
* jn/preformatted-doc-url:
doc: git-htmldocs.googlecode.com is no more
A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to
report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has
been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for
paths that are _inside_.
* ao/p4-has-branch-prefix-fix:
git-p4: correct hasBranchPrefix verbose output
One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has
been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the
command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802).
* ak/t7800-wo-readlink:
t7800: readlink may not be available
The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not
prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a
bogus offset value to the caller. Use a more benign looking
+0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead
of aborting.
* jk/tzoffset-fix:
local_tzoffset: detect errors from tm_to_time_t
t0006: test various date formats
t0006: rename test-date's "show" to "relative"
Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C
functions that do not take any parameters, which has been
corrected.
* js/mingw-parameter-less-c-functions:
mingw: let the build succeed with DEVELOPER=1
Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}'
to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes.
* lc/shell-default-value-noexpand:
sh-setup: enclose setting of ${VAR=default} in double-quotes
Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth"
that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also
be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream
of the submodules are not prepared for.
* sb/clone-shallow-passthru:
clone: do not let --depth imply --shallow-submodules
Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use
GPG signature have been documented.
* mg/signature-doc:
Documentation/technical: signed merge tag format
Documentation/technical: signed commit format
Documentation/technical: signed tag format
Documentation/technical: describe signature formats
"git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when
bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the
data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly.
* jk/bisect-show-tree:
bisect: always call setup_revisions after init_revisions
The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to
be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up.
* km/fetch-do-not-free-remote-name:
builtin/fetch.c: don't free remote->name after fetch
"log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width
relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to
draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It
also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative
to the right border.
* nd/graph-width-padded:
pretty.c: support <direction>|(<negative number>) forms
pretty: pass graph width to pretty formatting for use in '%>|(N)'
"git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic
experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split
as "git diff" output.
* jk/add-i-diff-compact-heuristics:
add--interactive: respect diff.compactionHeuristic
"git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
* mg/cherry-pick-multi-on-unborn:
cherry-pick: allow to pick to unborn branches
Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
* em/newer-freebsd-shells-are-fine-with-returns:
rebase: update comment about FreeBSD /bin/sh
"git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working
tree".
* lv/status-say-working-tree-not-directory:
Use "working tree" instead of "working directory" for git status
"git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
* et/add-chmod-x:
add: add --chmod=+x / --chmod=-x options
A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
* jk/avoid-unbounded-alloca:
tree-diff: avoid alloca for large allocations
The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
* vs/prompt-avoid-unset-variable:
git-prompt.sh: Don't error on null ${ZSH,BASH}_VERSION, $short_sha
"git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
reflog was truncated.
* sg/reflog-past-root:
reflog: continue walking the reflog past root commits
The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
* dn/gpg-doc:
Documentation: GPG capitalization
The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
* tr/doc-tt:
doc: change configuration variables format
doc: more consistency in environment variables format
doc: change environment variables format
doc: clearer rule about formatting literals
As of 1a9d15d (tempfile: a new module for handling temporary files,
2015-08-10), the temporary files which are used by the lock file
machinery adjust the permissions, and to do that, the config is read,
which in turn requires the config to be read.
This means that the runtime prefix needs to be resolved properly, but we
did not set that correctly in credential-store.
The symptom of this bug: when running
printf '%s\n%s\n%s\n%s\n' \
'protocol=https' 'host=gitblub.com' \
'username=hello' 'password=world' |
git credential-store store
an assertion is thrown:
Assertion failed!
Program: ...\libexec\git-core\git-credential-store.exe
File: exec_cmd.c, Line 23
Expression: argv0_path
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for
more information.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/766
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
"git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
which has been fixed.
* rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line:
xdiff: fix merging of appended hunk with -W
grep: -W: don't extend context to trailing empty lines
t7810: add test for grep -W and trailing empty context lines
xdiff: don't trim common tail with -W
xdiff: -W: don't include common trailing empty lines in context
xdiff: ignore empty lines before added functions with -W
xdiff: handle appended chunks better with -W
xdiff: factor out match_func_rec()
t4051: rewrite, add more tests
"git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
bitmap index.
* jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap:
rev-list: disable bitmaps when "-n" is used with listing objects
rev-list: "adjust" results of "--count --use-bitmap-index -n"
The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
--no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
"auto".
* et/pretty-format-c-auto:
format_commit_message: honor `color=auto` for `%C(auto)`
When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
* ew/daemon-socket-keepalive:
daemon: enable SO_KEEPALIVE for all sockets
