These fixes were necessary for Sverre Rabbelier's remote-hg to work,
but for some magic reason they are not necessary for the current
remote-hg. Makes you wonder how that one gets away with it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch addresses the bug where Git for Windows 2.x' Git GUI
failed to generate a working shortcut via Repository>Create Desktop
Shortcut.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
From the documentation of said setting:
This boolean will enable fsync() when writing object files.
This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that
orders data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems
that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or
that only journal metadata and not file contents (OS X’s HFS+,
or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
The most common file system on Windows (NTFS) does not guarantee that
order, therefore a sudden loss of power (or any other event causing an
unclean shutdown) would cause corrupt files (i.e. files filled with
NULs). Therefore we need to change the default.
Note that the documentation makes it sound as if this causes really bad
performance. In reality, writing loose objects is something that is done
only rarely, and only a handful of files at a time.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When specifying an absolute path without a drive prefix, we convert that
path internally. Let's make sure that we handle that case properly, too
;-)
This fixes the command
git clone https://github.com/git-for-windows/git \G4W
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, there are several categories of absolute paths. One such
category starts with a backslash and is implicitly relative to the
drive associated with the current working directory. Example:
c:
git clone https://github.com/git-for-windows/git \G4W
should clone into C:\G4W.
There is currently a problem with that, in that mingw_mktemp() does not
expect the _wmktemp() function to prefix the absolute path with the
drive prefix, and as a consequence, the resulting path does not fit into
the originally-passed string buffer. The symptom is a "Result too large"
error.
Reported by Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Teach FSCACHE to remember "not found" directories.
This is a performance optimization.
FSCACHE is a performance optimization available for Windows. It
intercepts Posix-style lstat() calls into an in-memory directory
using FindFirst/FindNext. It improves performance on Windows by
catching the first lstat() call in a directory, using FindFirst/
FindNext to read the list of files (and attribute data) for the
entire directory into the cache, and short-cut subsequent lstat()
calls in the same directory. This gives a major performance
boost on Windows.
However, it does not remember "not found" directories. When STATUS
runs and there are missing directories, the lstat() interception
fails to find the parent directory and simply return ENOENT for the
file -- it does not remember that the FindFirst on the directory
failed. Thus subsequent lstat() calls in the same directory, each
re-attempt the FindFirst. This completely defeats any performance
gains.
This can be seen by doing a sparse-checkout on a large repo and
then doing a read-tree to reset the skip-worktree bits and then
running status.
This change reduced status times for my very large repo by 60%.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When developing Git for Windows, we always have to ensure that we do not
break any non-Windows platforms, e.g. by introducing Windows-specific code
into the platform-independent source code.
At other times, it is necessary to test whether a bug is Windows-specific
or not, in order to send the bug report to the correct place. Having
access to a Linux-based Git comes in really handy in such a situation.
Vagrant offers a painless way to install and use a defined Linux
development environment on Windows (and other Operating Systems). We offer
a Vagrantfile to that end for two reasons:
1) To allow Windows users to gain the full power of Linux' Git
2) To offer users an easy path to verify that the issue they are about
to report is really a Windows-specific issue; otherwise they would
need to report it to git@vger.kernel.org instead.
Using it is easy: Download and install https://www.virtualbox.org/, then
download and install https://www.vagrantup.com/, then direct your
command-line window to the Git source directory containing the Vagrantfile
and run the commands:
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
See https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Vagrant for details.
As part of switching Git for Windows' development environment from msysGit
to the MSys2-based Git SDK, this Vagrantfile was copy-edited from msysGit:
https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/blob/0be8f2208/Vagrantfile
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
For regular debugging, it is pretty helpful when a debug assertion in a
running application triggers a window that offers to start the debugger.
However, when running the test suite, it is not so helpful, in
particular when the debug assertions are then suppressed anyway because
we disable the invalid parameter checking (via invalidcontinue.obj, see
the comment in config.mak.uname about that object for more information).
So let's simply disable that window in Debug Mode (it is already
disabled in Release Mode).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The entire idea of generating the VS solution makes only sense if we
generate it via Continuous Integration; otherwise potential users would
still have to download the entire Git for Windows SDK.
So let's just add a target in the Makefile that can be used to generate
said solution; The generated files will then be committed so that they
can be pushed to a branch ready to check out by Visual Studio users.
To make things even more useful, we also generate and commit other files
that are required to run the test suite, such as templates and
bin-wrappers: with this, developers can run the test suite in a regular
Git Bash (that is part of a regular Git for Windows installation) after
building the solution in Visual Studio.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When building with Microsoft Visual C, we use NuGet to acquire the
dependencies (such as OpenSSL, cURL, etc). We even unpack those
dependencies.
This patch teaches the test suite to add the directory with the unpacked
.dll files to the PATH before running the tests.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We already unpack the NuGet packages in a certain place, via
compat/vcbuild/Makefile. Let's let Visual Studio use the very same place.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This file is not available in earlier MSVC versions, and it is not
necessary to include it with MSVC, anyway.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Microsoft flipped the Windows Safe Exception Handling default
in VS2013 so that zlib became unacceptable to certain OS versions
(Vista and subsequent 32-bit OS's) without the addition of
the option -SAFESEH:NO.
Provide a switch to disable the Safe Exception Handler when required.
The option ImageHasSafeExceptionHandlers for VS2013 is not available in
earlier versions, so use the SAFESEH:NO linker flag. See
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9a89h429.aspx for
further details.
This has only had limited testing due to the lack of a suitable system.
Helped-by: Yue Lin Ho <b8732003@student.nsysu.edu.tw>
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Needed for: test-config; t-dump-split-index; t-dump-untracked-cache;
t-fake-ssh; t-sha1-array; t-submodule-config.
Plus a few spares.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Visual Studio takes the first listed application/library as the default
startup project [1].
Detect the 'git' project and place it the head of the apps list, rather
than the tail.
Export the apps list before libs list for both the projects and global
structures of the .sln file.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1238553/
vs2008-where-is-the-startup-project-setting-stored-for-a-solution
"In the solution file, there are a list of pseudo-XML "Project"
entries. It turns out that whatever is the first one ends up as
the Startup Project, unless it’s overridden in the suo file. Argh.
I just rearranged the order in the file and it’s good."
"just moving the pseudo-xml isn't enough. You also have to move the
group of entries in the "GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms)
= postSolution" group that has the GUID of the project you moved to
the top. So there are two places to move lines."
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Delete the duplicated GUID from the generation code for the Visual Studio
.sln project file.
The duplicate GUID tended to be allocated to test-svn-fe, which was then
ignored by Visual Studio / MSVC, and its omission from the build never
noticed.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Visual Studio has this very neat feature that you can get dependencies in
the form of NuGet packages, and even further: you can specify in a project
what NuGet packages it needs. These dependencies can then be fetched via
right-clicking the solution in the Solution Explorer and clicking the
"Restore NuGet Packages" entry.
This feature is so neat, in fact, that we want to support it in Git for
Windows. The idea is that we will be able to provide developers with a
checkout of the Git sources that can be built outside of the Git for
Windows SDK, using *only* Visual Studio.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The .sln/.vcproj files were used to define projects up until Visual
Studio 2008, but starting with Visual Studio 2010 the project
definitions are stored in .sln/.vcxproj files (which can also be used
by the MSBuild system).
Let's just copy-edit the generator of the .vcproj files to a new
generator that produces .vcxproj files directly, without forcing Visual
Studio to upgrade the project definitions.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
With the recent changes to allow building with MSVC=1, we now pass the
/OPT:REF option to the compiler. This confuses the parser that wants to
turn the output of a dry run into project definitions for QMake and Visual
Studio:
Unhandled link option @ line 213: /OPT:REF at [...]
Let's just extend the code that passes through options that start with a
dash, so that it passes through options that start with a slash, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Add an option for capturing the output of the make dry-run used in
determining the msvc-build structure for easy debugging.
You can use the output of `--make-out <path>` in subsequent runs via the
`--in <path>` option.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git's test suite shows tons of breakages unless Git is compiled
*without* NO_ICONV. That means, in turn, that we need to generate
build definitions *with* libiconv, which in turn implies that we
have to handle the -liconv option properly.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Generators/ directory can contain spurious files such as editors'
backup files. Even worse, there could be .swp files which are not even
valid Perl scripts.
Let's just ignore anything but .pm files in said directory.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Upon seeing the '-lcurl' option, point to the libcurl.lib.
While there, fix the elsif indentation.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Rather than swallowing the errors, it is better to have them in a file.
To make it obvious what this is about, use the file name
'msvc-build-makedryerrors.txt'.
Further, if the output is empty, simply delete that file. As we target
Git for Windows' SDK (which, unlike its predecessor msysGit, offers
Perl versions newer than 5.8), we can use the quite readable syntax
`if -f -z $ErrsFile` (available in Perl >=5.10).
Note that the file will contain the new values of the GIT_VERSION
and GITGUI_VERSION if they were generated by the make file. They
are omitted if the release is tagged and indentically defined in
their respective GIT_VERSION_GEN file DEF_VER variables.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git's build contains steps to handle internationalization. This caused
hiccups in the parser used to generate QMake/Visual Studio project files.
As those steps are irrelevant in this context, let's just ignore them.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The engine.pl script expects file names not to contain spaces. However,
paths with spaces are quite prevalent on Windows. Use shellwords() rather
than split() to parse them correctly.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The error message talked about a "lib option", but it clearly referred
to a link option.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Add the Microsoft .manifest pattern, and correct the generic 'Debug'
and 'Release' directory patterns which were mechanically adjusted way
back in c591d5f (gitignore: root most patterns at the top-level directory,
2009-10-26) to allow multi-level projects within the Git suite.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
