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 to shoot 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:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/122#issuecomment-43604199
[jes: adjusted test number to avoid conflicts, reinstated && chain]
Thanks-to: Martin W. Kirst <maki@bitkings.de>
Thanks-to: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Original-test-by: Andrey Rogozhnikov <rogozhnikov.andrey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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 to shoot 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:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/pull/122#issuecomment-43604199
[jes: adjusted test number to avoid conflicts]
Thanks-to: Martin W. Kirst <maki@bitkings.de>
Thanks-to: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Original-test-by: Andrey Rogozhnikov <rogozhnikov.andrey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
[jes: adusted test number to avoid conflicts, fixed non-portable use of
the 'export' statement]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
If multiple threads access a directory that is not yet in the cache, the
directory will be loaded by each thread. Only one of the results is added
to the cache, all others are leaked. This wastes performance and memory.
On cache miss, add a future object to the cache to indicate that the
directory is currently being loaded. Subsequent threads register themselves
with the future object and wait. When the first thread has loaded the
directory, it replaces the future object with the result and notifies
waiting threads.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Checking the work tree status is quite slow on Windows, due to slow lstat
emulation (git calls lstat once for each file in the index). Windows
operating system APIs seem to be much better at scanning the status
of entire directories than checking single files.
Add an lstat implementation that uses a cache for lstat data. Cache misses
read the entire parent directory and add it to the cache. Subsequent lstat
calls for the same directory are served directly from the cache.
Also implement opendir / readdir / closedir so that they create and use
directory listings in the cache.
The cache doesn't track file system changes and doesn't plug into any
modifying file APIs, so it has to be explicitly enabled for git functions
that don't modify the working copy.
Note: in an earlier version of this patch, the cache was always active and
tracked file system changes via ReadDirectoryChangesW. However, this was
much more complex and had negative impact on the performance of modifying
git commands such as 'git checkout'.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Add a macro to mark code sections that only read from the file system,
along with a config option and documentation.
This facilitates implementation of relatively simple file system level
caches without the need to synchronize with the file system.
Enable read-only sections for 'git status' and preload_index.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Emulating the POSIX lstat API on Windows via GetFileAttributes[Ex] is quite
slow. Windows operating system APIs seem to be much better at scanning the
status of entire directories than checking single files. A caching
implementation may improve performance by bulk-reading entire directories
or reusing data obtained via opendir / readdir.
Make the lstat implementation pluggable so that it can be switched at
runtime, e.g. based on a config option.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Emulating the POSIX dirent API on Windows via FindFirstFile/FindNextFile is
pretty staightforward, however, most of the information provided in the
WIN32_FIND_DATA structure is thrown away in the process. A more
sophisticated implementation may cache this data, e.g. for later reuse in
calls to lstat.
Make the dirent implementation pluggable so that it can be switched at
runtime, e.g. based on a config option.
Define a base DIR structure with pointers to readdir/closedir that match
the opendir implementation (i.e. similar to vtable pointers in OOP).
Define readdir/closedir so that they call the function pointers in the DIR
structure. This allows to choose the opendir implementation on a
call-by-call basis.
Move the fixed sized dirent.d_name buffer to the dirent-specific DIR
structure, as d_name may be implementation specific (e.g. a caching
implementation may just set d_name to point into the cache instead of
copying the entire file name string).
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
With msysGit the .git directory is supposed to be hidden, unless it is
a bare git repository. Test this.
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
At least for cross-platform projects, it makes sense to hide the
files starting with a dot, as this is the behavior on Unix/MacOSX.
However, at least Eclipse has problems interpreting the hidden flag
correctly, so the default is to hide only the .git/ directory.
The config setting core.hideDotFiles therefore supports not only
'true' and 'false', but also 'dotGitOnly'.
[jes: clarified the commit message, made git init respect the setting
by marking the .git/ directory only after reading the config, and added
documentation, and rebased on top of current junio/next]
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MSYS2 actually allows to create files or directories whose names contain
tabs, newlines or colors, even if plain Win32 API cannot access them.
As we are using an MSYS2 bash to run the tests, such files or
directories are created successfully, but Git itself has no chance to
work with them because it is a regular Windows program, hence limited by
the Win32 API.
With this change, on Windows otherwise failing tests in
t3300-funny-names.sh, t3600-rm.sh, t3703-add-magic-pathspec.sh,
t3902-quoted.sh, t4016-diff-quote.sh, t4135-apply-weird-filenames.sh,
t9200-git-cvsexportcommit.sh, and t9903-bash-prompt.sh are skipped.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, Git itself has no clue about POSIX paths, but its shell
scripts do. In this instance, we get mixed paths as a result, and when
comparing the path of the author file, we get a mismatch that is
entirely due to the POSIX path vs Windows path clash.
Let's just skip this test so that t9130-git-svn-authors-file.sh passes
in Git for Windows' SDK.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, the permission system works completely differently than
expected by some of the tests. So let's make sure that we do not test
POSIX functionality on Windows.
This lets t9124-git-svn-dcommit-auto-props.sh pass in Git for Windows'
SDK.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows' file systems, file names with trailing dots are forbidden.
The POSIX emulation layer used by Git for Windows' Subversion emulates
those file names, therefore the test adding the file would actually
succeed, but when we would ask git.exe (which does not leverage the
POSIX emulation layer) to check out the tree, it would fail.
Let's just guard the test using a filename that is illegal on Windows
by the MINGW prereq.
This lets t9118-git-svn-funky-branch-names.sh pass in Git for Windows'
SDK.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Many a test requires either POSIXPERM (to change the executable bit) or
SYMLINKS, and neither are available on Windows.
This lets t9100-git-svn-basic.sh pass in Git for Windows' SDK.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The colon is used by check-ignore to separate paths from other output
values. If we use an absolute path, however, on Windows it will be
converted into a Windows path that very much contains a colon.
It is actually not at all necessary to make the path of the global
excludes absolute, so let's just not even do that.
Based on suggestions by Karsten Blees and Junio Hamano.
Suggested-by: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In Git for Windows' SDK, the tests are run using a Bash that relies on
the POSIX emulation layer MSYS2 (itself a friendly fork of Cygwin). As
such, paths in tests can be POSIX paths. As soon as those paths are
passed to git.exe (which does *not* use the POSIX emulation layer),
those paths are converted into Windows paths, though. This happens
for command-line parameters, but not when reading, say, config variables.
To help with that, the `pwd` command is overridden to return the Windows
path of the current working directory when testing Git on Windows.
However, when talking to anything using the POSIX emulation layer, it is
really much better to use POSIX paths because Windows paths contain a
colon after the drive letter that will easily be mistaken for the common
separator in path lists.
So let's just use the $PWD variable when the POSIX path is needed.
This lets t7800-difftool.sh, t9400-git-cvsserver-server.sh,
t9402-git-cvsserver-refs.sh and t9401-git-cvsserver-crlf.sh pass in Git
for Windows' SDK.
Note: the cvsserver tests require not only the `cvs` package (install
it into Git for Windows' SDK via `pacman -S cvs`) but also the Perl
SQLite bindings (install them into Git for Windows' SDK via
`cpan DBD::SQLite`).
This patch is based on earlier work by 마누엘 and Karsten Blees.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This test assumed that there is only one directory separator (the
forward slash), not two equivalent directory separators.
However, on Windows, the back slash and the forward slash *are*
equivalent.
Let's paper over this issue by converting the backward slashes to
forward ones in the test that fails with MSYS2 otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In Git for Windows, the MSYS2 POSIX emulation layer used by the Bash
converts command-line arguments that looks like they refer to a POSIX
path containing a file list (i.e. @<absolute-path>) into a Windows path
equivalent when calling non-MSYS2 executables, such as git.exe.
Let's just skip the test that uses the parameter `@/at-test` that
confuses the MSYS2 runtime.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Git daemon tests create a FIFO first thing and will hang if said
FIFO is not available.
This is a problem with Git for Windows, where `mkfifo` is an MSYS2
program that leverages MSYS2's POSIX emulation layer, but
`git-daemon.exe` is a MINGW program that has not the first clue about
that POSIX emulation layer and therefore blinks twice when it sees
MSYS2's emulated FIFOs and then just stares into space.
This lets t5570-git-daemon.sh and t5811-proto-disable-git.sh pass.
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MSYS2 (the POSIX emulation layer used by Git for Windows' Bash) actually
has a working mkfifo. The only problem is that it is only emulating
named pipes through the MSYS2 runtime; The Win32 API has no idea about
named pipes, hence the Git executable cannot access those pipes either.
The symptom is that Git fails with a '<name>: No such file or directory'
because MSYS2 emulates named pipes through special-crafted '.lnk' files.
The solution is to tell the test suite explicitly that we cannot use
named pipes when we want to test on Windows.
This lets t4056-diff-order.sh, t9010-svn-fe.sh and t9300-fast-import.sh
pass.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, there are no POSIX paths, only Windows ones (an absolute
Windows path looks like "C:\Program Files\Git\ReleaseNotes.html", under
most circumstances, forward slashes are also allowed and synonymous to
backslashes).
So when a POSIX shell (such as MSYS2's Bash, which is used by Git for
Windows to execute all those shell scripts that are part of Git) passes
a POSIX path to test-path-utils.exe (which is not POSIX-aware), the path
is translated into a Windows path. For example, /etc/profile becomes
C:/Program Files/Git/etc/profile.
This path translation poses a problem when passing the root directory as
parameter to test-path-utils.exe, as it is not well defined whether the
translated root directory should end in a slash or not. MSys1 stripped
the trailing slash, but MSYS2 does not.
Originally, the Git for Windows project patched MSYS2's runtime to
accomodate Git's regression test, but we really should do it the other
way round.
To work with both of MSys1's and MSYS2's behaviors, we simply test what
the current system does in the beginning of t0060-path-utils.sh and then
adjust the expected longest ancestor length accordingly.
It looks quite a bit tricky what we actually do in this patch: first, we
adjust the expected length for the trailing slash we did not originally
expect (subtracting one). So far, so good.
But now comes the part where things work in a surprising way: when the
expected length was 0, the prefix to match is the root directory. If the
root directory is converted into a path with a trailing slash, however,
we know that the logic in longest_ancestor_length() cannot match: to
avoid partial matches of the last directory component, it verifies that
the character after the matching prefix is a slash (but because the
slash was part of the matching prefix, the next character cannot be a
slash). So the return value is -1. Alas, this is exactly what the
expected length is after subtracting the value of $rootslash! So we skip
adding the $rootoff value in that case (and only in that case).
Directories other than the root directory are handled fine (as they are
specified without a trailing slash, something not possible for the root
directory, and MSYS2 converts them into Windows paths that also lack
trailing slashes), therefore we do not need any more special handling.
Thanks to Ray Donnelly for his patient help with this issue.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Since baaf233 (connect: improve check for plink to reduce false
positives, 2015-04-26), t5601 writes out a `plink.exe` for testing that
is actually a shell script. So the assumption that the `.exe` extension
implies that the file is *not* a shell script is now wrong.
Since there was no love for the idea of allowing `.exe` files to be
shell scripts on Windows, let's go the other way round: *make*
`plink.exe` a real `.exe`.
This fixes t5601-clone.sh in Git for Windows' SDK.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
POSIX semantics requires lstat() to fail with ENOTDIR when "[a]
component of the path prefix names an existing file that is neither a
directory nor a symbolic link to a directory".
See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lstat.html
This behavior is expected by t1404-update-ref-df-conflicts now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When the rename() function tries to move a directory it fails if the
target directory exists. It should check if it can delete the (possibly
empty) target directory and then try again to move the directory.
This partially fixes t9100-git-svn-basic.sh.
Signed-off-by: 마누엘 <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When shell scripts access a $TMPDIR variable containing backslashes,
they will be mistaken for escape characters. Let's not let that happen
by converting them to forward slashes.
This partially fixes t7800 with MSYS2.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We will add more environment-related code to that new function
in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, absolute paths never start with a slash, unless a POSIX
emulation layer is used. The latter is the case for MSYS2's Perl that
Git for Windows leverages. However, in the tests we also go through
plain `git.exe`, which does *not* leverage the POSIX emulation layer,
and therefore the paths we pass to Perl may actually be DOS-style paths
such as C:/Program Files/Git.
So let's just use Perl's own way to test whether a given path is
absolute or not instead of home-brewing our own.
This patch partially fixes t7800 and t9700 when running in Git for
Windows' SDK.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
It does not quite work because it produces DOS line endings which the
shell does not like at all.
This lets t0200-gettext-basic.sh, t0204-gettext-reencode-sanity.sh,
t3406-rebase-message.sh, t3903-stash.sh, t7400-submodule-basic.sh,
t7401-submodule-summary.sh, t7406-submodule-update.sh and
t7407-submodule-foreach.sh pass in Git for Windows' SDK.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This solves two problems:
- we now have proper localisation even on Windows
- we sidestep the infamous "BUG: your vsnprintf is broken (returned -1)"
message when running "git init" (which otherwise prevents the entire
test suite from running) because libintl.h overrides vsnprintf() with
libintl_vsnprintf() [*1*]
The latter issue is rather crucial, as *no* test passes in Git for
Windows without this fix.
Footnote *1*: gettext_git=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git
$gettext_git/tree/gettext-runtime/intl/libgnuintl.in.h#n380
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Beginning of the upstreaming process of Git for Windows effort.
* js/msys2:
mingw: uglify (a, 0) definitions to shut up warnings
mingw: squash another warning about a cast
mingw: avoid warnings when casting HANDLEs to int
mingw: avoid redefining S_* constants
compat/winansi: support compiling with MSys2
compat/mingw: support MSys2-based MinGW build
nedmalloc: allow compiling with MSys2's compiler
config.mak.uname: supporting 64-bit MSys2
config.mak.uname: support MSys2
When the result of a (a, 0) expression is not used, MSys2's GCC version
finds it necessary to complain with a warning:
right-hand operand of comma expression has no effect
Let's just pretend to use the 0 value and have a peaceful and quiet life
again.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
MSys2's compiler is correct that casting a "void *" to a "DWORD" loses
precision, but in the case of pthread_exit() we know that the value
fits into a DWORD.
Just like casting handles to DWORDs, let's work around this issue by
casting to "intrptr_t" first, and immediately cast to the final type.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
HANDLE is defined internally as a void *, but in many cases it is
actually guaranteed to be a 32-bit integer. In these cases, GCC should
not warn about a cast of a pointer to an integer of a different type
because we know exactly what we are doing.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When compiling with MSys2's compiler, these constants are already defined.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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).
Note: this commit only addresses compile failures, not compile warnings
(that task is left for a future patch).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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 the FORCEINLINE definition so
as not to affect other platforms.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This just makes things compile, the test suite needs extra tender loving
care in addition to this change. We will address these issues in later
commits.
While at it, also allow building MSys2 Git (i.e. a Git that uses MSys2's
POSIX emulation layer).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For a long time, Git for Windows lagged behind Git's 2.x releases because
the Git for Windows developers wanted to let that big jump coincide with
a well-needed jump away from MSys to MSys2.
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 Git relies
on a POSIX shell and Perl to be available.
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 in August 2007, this developer 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, MSys was used, too: it sports
two versions of the GNU C Compiler: one that links implicitly to the
POSIX emulation layer, and another one that targets the plain Win32 API
(with a few convenience functions thrown in). Git for Windows'
executables are built using the latter, and therefore they 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, so we had to maintain our own
fork. Also, the MSys runtime was not developed further to support e.g.
UTF-8 or 64-bit, and apart from lacking 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
that has nothing to do with developing Git for Windows further.
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. Just
like MSys, MSys2 is 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, many more months until the first official
Git for Windows 2.x was released, and a couple of patches still 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>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Paths that have been told the index about with "add -N" are not
quite yet in the index, but a few commands behaved as if they
already are in a harmful way.
* nd/ita-cleanup:
grep: make it clear i-t-a entries are ignored
add and use a convenience macro ce_intent_to_add()
blame: remove obsolete comment
The documentation for "git clean" has been corrected; it mentioned
that .git/modules/* are removed by giving two "-f", which has never
been the case.
* mm/clean-doc-fix:
Documentation/git-clean.txt: don't mention deletion of .git/modules/*
