The idea of having the Git wrapper in the /cmd/ directory is to allow
adding only a *tiny* set of executables to the search path, to allow
minimal interference with other software applications. It is quite
likely, for example, that other software applications require their own
version of zlib1.dll and would not be overly happy to find the version
Git for Windows ships.
The /cmd/ directory also gives us the opportunity to let the Git wrapper
handle the `gitk` script. It is a Tcl/Tk script that is not recognized
by Windows, therefore calling `gitk` in `cmd.exe` would not work, even
if we add all of Git for Windows' bin/ directories.
So let's use the /cmd/ directory instead of adding /mingw??/bin/ and
/usr/bin/ to the PATH when launching Git CMD.
The way we implemented Git CMD is to embed the appropriate command line
as string resource into a copy of the Git wrapper. Therefore we extended
that syntax to allow for configuring a minimal search path.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We recently added the ability to configure copies of the Git wrapper to
launch custom command-lines, configured via plain old Windows resources.
The main user is Git for Windows' `git-bash.exe`, of course. When the
user double-clicks the `git bash` icon, it makes sense to start the Bash
in the user's home directory.
Third-party software, such as TortoiseGit or GitHub for Windows, may
want to start the Git Bash in another directory, though.
Now, when third-party software wants to call Git, they already have to
construct a command-line, and can easily pass a command-line option
`--no-cd` (which this commit introduces), and since that option is not
available when the user double-clicks an icon on the Desktop or in the
Explorer, let's keep the default to switch to the home directory if the
`--no-cd` flag was not passed along.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When we rewrite the command-line to call the *real* Git, we want to skip
the first command-line parameter. The previous code worked in most
circumstances, but was a bit fragile because it assumed that no fancy
quoting would take place.
In the next commit, we will want to have the option to skip more than
just one command-line parameter, so we have to be much more careful with
the command-line handling.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In the meantime, Git for Windows learned to handle those subcommands
quite well itself; There is no longer a need to special-case them in the
wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In a push to polish Git for Windows more, we are moving away from
scripts toward proper binaries.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Git wrapper does one thing, and does it well: setting up the
environment required to run Git and its scripts, and then hand off to
another program.
We already do this for the Git executable itself; in Git for Windows'
context, we have exactly the same need also when calling the Git Bash or
Git CMD. However, both are tied to what particular shell environment you
use, though: MSys or MSys2 (or whatever else cunning developers make
work for them). This means that the Git Bash and Git CMD need to be
compiled in the respective context (e.g. when compiling the
mingw-w64-git package in the MSys2 context).
Happily, Windows offers a way to configure compiled executables:
resources. So let's just look whether the current executable has a
string resource and use it as the command-line to execute after the
environment is set up. To support MSys2's Git Bash better (where
`mintty` should, but might not, be available), we verify whether the
specified executable exists, and keep looking for string resources if it
does not.
For even more flexibility, we expand environment variables specified as
`@@<VARIABLE-NAME>@@`, and for convenience `@@EXEPATH@@` expands into
the directory in which the executable resides.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Otherwise the output of Git commands cannot be caught by, say, Git GUI
(because it is running detached from any console, which would make
`git.exe` inherit the standard handles implicitly).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We are about to use the Git wrapper to call the Git Bash of Git for
Windows. All the wrapper needs to do for that is to set up the
environment variables, use the home directory as working directory and
then hand off to a user-specified command-line.
We prepare the existing code for this change by introducing flags to set
up the environment variables, to launch a non-Git program, and to use
the home directory as working directory.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
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>
