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Johannes Schindelin
863ed62bb2 Merge branch 'program-data-config'
This branch introduces support for reading the "Windows-wide" Git
configuration from `%PROGRAMDATA%\Git\config`. As these settings are
intended to be shared between *all* Git-related software, that config
file takes an even lower precedence than `$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:45 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
ecce915fc7 Merge pull request #1897 from piscisaureus/symlink-attr
Specify symlink type in .gitattributes
2018-11-20 11:23:45 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
adc2f1507d Merge branch 'kblees/kb/symlinks' 2018-11-20 11:23:45 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
112344f2f6 Merge branch 'msys2' 2018-11-20 11:23:44 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
7fcb7c7a58 Merge branch 'long-paths' 2018-11-20 11:23:44 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
720c99feb4 Merge branch 'fscache' 2018-11-20 11:23:44 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
0c11311929 Merge branch 'visual-studio'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:43 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
59b1df8ffa Merge branch 'msvc'
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:43 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
a927de53cc Merge branch 'gitk-and-git-gui-patches'
These are Git for Windows' Git GUI and gitk patches. We will have to
decide at some point what to do about them, but that's a little lower
priority (as Git GUI seems to be unmaintained for the time being, and
the gitk maintainer keeps a very low profile on the Git mailing list,
too).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:43 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
2df3c2eb94 Merge branch 'ready-for-upstream'
This is the branch thicket of patches in Git for Windows that are
considered ready for upstream. To keep them in a ready-to-submit shape,
they are kept as close to the beginning of the branch thicket as
possible.
2018-11-20 11:23:42 +01:00
Bert Belder
c49ea1e0b4 Win32: symlink: add test for symlink attribute
Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
2018-11-20 11:23:20 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
246eb747c5 mingw: try to create symlinks without elevated permissions
With Windows 10 Build 14972 in Developer Mode, a new flag is supported
by CreateSymbolicLink() to create symbolic links even when running
outside of an elevated session (which was previously required).

This new flag is called SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE and
has the numeric value 0x02.

Previous Windows 10 versions will not understand that flag and return an
ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER, therefore we have to be careful to try passing
that flag only when the build number indicates that it is supported.

For more information about the new flag, see this blog post:
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/

This patch is loosely based on the patch submitted by Samuel D. Leslie
as https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/1184.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:08 +01:00
Bert Belder
02b5eb8b00 Win32: symlink: specify symlink type in .gitattributes
On Windows, symbolic links have a type: a "file symlink" must point at
a file, and a "directory symlink" must point at a directory. If the
type of symlink does not match its target, it doesn't work.

Git does not record the type of symlink in the index or in a tree. On
checkout it'll guess the type, which only works if the target exists
at the time the symlink is created. This may often not be the case,
for example when the link points at a directory inside a submodule.

By specifying `symlink=file` or `symlink=dir` the user can specify what
type of symlink Git should create, so Git doesn't have to rely on
unreliable heuristics.

Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:08 +01:00
Bert Belder
fdd6b16bb4 Win32: symlink: move phantom symlink creation to a separate function
Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
2018-11-20 11:23:08 +01:00
Karsten Blees
56dcee2a9e Win32: symlink: add support for symlinks to directories
Symlinks on Windows have a flag that indicates whether the target is a file
or a directory. Symlinks of wrong type simply don't work. This even affects
core Win32 APIs (e.g. DeleteFile() refuses to delete directory symlinks).

However, CreateFile() with FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS doesn't seem to care.
Check the target type by first creating a tentative file symlink, opening
it, and checking the type of the resulting handle. If it is a directory,
recreate the symlink with the directory flag set.

It is possible to create symlinks before the target exists (or in case of
symlinks to symlinks: before the target type is known). If this happens,
create a tentative file symlink and postpone the directory decision: keep
a list of phantom symlinks to be processed whenever a new directory is
created in mingw_mkdir().

Limitations: This algorithm may fail if a link target changes from file to
directory or vice versa, or if the target directory is created in another
process.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:07 +01:00
Karsten Blees
3a9808ada4 Win32: implement basic symlink() functionality (file symlinks only)
Implement symlink() that always creates file symlinks. Fails with ENOSYS
if symlinks are disabled or unsupported.

Note: CreateSymbolicLinkW() was introduced with symlink support in Windows
Vista. For compatibility with Windows XP, we need to load it dynamically
and fail gracefully if it isnt's available.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:07 +01:00
Karsten Blees
6f116742db Win32: implement readlink()
Implement readlink() by reading NTFS reparse points. Works for symlinks
and directory junctions. If symlinks are disabled, fail with ENOSYS.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:07 +01:00
Karsten Blees
c8260a532e Win32: mingw_chdir: change to symlink-resolved directory
If symlinks are enabled, resolve all symlinks when changing directories,
as required by POSIX.

Note: Git's real_path() function bases its link resolution algorithm on
this property of chdir(). Unfortunately, the current directory on Windows
is limited to only MAX_PATH (260) characters. Therefore using symlinks and
long paths in combination may be problematic.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:07 +01:00
Karsten Blees
ce25172d19 Win32: mingw_rename: support renaming symlinks
MSVCRT's _wrename() cannot rename symlinks over existing files: it returns
success without doing anything. Newer MSVCR*.dll versions probably do not
have this problem: according to CRT sources, they just call MoveFileEx()
with the MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED flag.

Get rid of _wrename() and call MoveFileEx() with proper error handling.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:07 +01:00
Karsten Blees
ba90de8979 Win32: mingw_unlink: support symlinks to directories
_wunlink() / DeleteFileW() refuses to delete symlinks to directories. If
_wunlink() fails with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED, try _wrmdir() as well.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:07 +01:00
Karsten Blees
809c4e1621 Win32: add symlink-specific error codes
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:06 +01:00
Karsten Blees
cc13e1436a Win32: change default of 'core.symlinks' to false
Symlinks on Windows don't work the same way as on Unix systems. E.g. there
are different types of symlinks for directories and files, creating
symlinks requires administrative privileges etc.

By default, disable symlink support on Windows. I.e. users explicitly have
to enable it with 'git config [--system|--global] core.symlinks true'.

The test suite ignores system / global config files. Allow testing *with*
symlink support by checking if native symlinks are enabled in MSys2 (via
'MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict').

Reminder: This would need to be changed if / when we find a way to run the
test suite in a non-MSys-based shell (e.g. dash).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:06 +01:00
Karsten Blees
49800df416 Win32: factor out retry logic
The retry pattern is duplicated in three places. It also seems to be too
hard to use: mingw_unlink() and mingw_rmdir() duplicate the code to retry,
and both of them do so incompletely. They also do not restore errno if the
user answers 'no'.

Introduce a retry_ask_yes_no() helper function that handles retry with
small delay, asking the user, and restoring errno.

mingw_unlink: include _wchmod in the retry loop (which may fail if the
file is locked exclusively).

mingw_rmdir: include special error handling in the retry loop.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:06 +01:00
Karsten Blees
d7e5e85296 Win32: lstat(): return adequate stat.st_size for symlinks
Git typically doesn't trust the stat.st_size member of symlinks (e.g. see
strbuf_readlink()). However, some functions take shortcuts if st_size is 0
(e.g. diff_populate_filespec()).

In mingw_lstat() and fscache_lstat(), make sure to return an adequate size.

The extra overhead of opening and reading the reparse point to calculate
the exact size is not necessary, as git doesn't rely on the value anyway.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:06 +01:00
Karsten Blees
1009fcc239 Win32: teach fscache and dirent about symlinks
Move S_IFLNK detection to file_attr_to_st_mode() and reuse it in fscache.

Implement DT_LNK detection in dirent.c and the fscache readdir version.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:06 +01:00
Karsten Blees
ad19d10371 Win32: let mingw_lstat() error early upon problems with reparse points
When obtaining lstat information for reparse points, we need to call
FindFirstFile() in addition to GetFileInformationEx() to obtain the type
of the reparse point (symlink, mount point etc.). However, currently there
is no error handling whatsoever if FindFirstFile() fails.

Call FindFirstFile() before modifying the stat *buf output parameter and
error out if the call fails.

Note: The FindFirstFile() return value includes all the data that we get
from GetFileAttributesEx(), so we could replace GetFileAttributesEx() with
FindFirstFile(). We don't do that because GetFileAttributesEx() is about
twice as fast for single files. I.e. we only pay the extra cost of calling
FindFirstFile() in the rare case that we encounter a reparse point.

Note: The indentation of the remaining reparse point code will be fixed in
the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:05 +01:00
Karsten Blees
a8a419c6e5 Win32: remove separate do_lstat() function
With the new mingw_stat() implementation, do_lstat() is only called from
mingw_lstat() (with follow == 0). Remove the extra function and the old
mingw_stat()-specific (follow == 1) logic.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:05 +01:00
Karsten Blees
349750a7c6 Win32: implement stat() with symlink support
With respect to symlinks, the current stat() implementation is almost the
same as lstat(): except for the file type (st_mode & S_IFMT), it returns
information about the link rather than the target.

Implement stat by opening the file with as little permissions as possible
and calling GetFileInformationByHandle on it. This way, all link resoltion
is handled by the Windows file system layer.

If symlinks are disabled, use lstat() as before, but fail with ELOOP if a
symlink would have to be resolved.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:05 +01:00
Karsten Blees
e2c1632ad3 Win32: don't call GetFileAttributes twice in mingw_lstat()
GetFileAttributes cannot handle paths with trailing dir separator. The
current [l]stat implementation calls GetFileAttributes twice if the path
has trailing slashes (first with the original path passed to [l]stat, and
and a second time with a path copy with trailing '/' removed).

With Unicode conversion, we get the length of the path for free and also
have a (wide char) buffer that can be modified.

Remove trailing directory separators before calling the Win32 API.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:05 +01:00
Karsten Blees
cd73822bbe lockfile.c: use is_dir_sep() instead of hardcoded '/' checks
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:05 +01:00
Karsten Blees
452ced7756 strbuf_readlink: support link targets that exceed PATH_MAX
strbuf_readlink() refuses to read link targets that exceed PATH_MAX (even
if a sufficient size was specified by the caller).

As some platforms support longer paths, remove this restriction (similar
to strbuf_getcwd()).

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:05 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
1bf44a19df Merge branch 'maybe-drop'
These patches are probably no longer necessary. Make sure before
dropping them, though.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:04 +01:00
Karsten Blees
626fd82747 strbuf_readlink: don't call readlink twice if hint is the exact link size
strbuf_readlink() calls readlink() twice if the hint argument specifies the
exact size of the link target (e.g. by passing stat.st_size as returned by
lstat()). This is necessary because 'readlink(..., hint) == hint' could
mean that the buffer was too small.

Use hint + 1 as buffer size to prevent this.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:04 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
a9a6a15754 t9001: work around hard-to-debug hangs
Just like the workaround we added for t9116, t9001.83 hangs sometimes --
but not always! -- when being run in the Git for Windows SDK.

The issue seems to be related to redirection via a pipe, but it is really
hard to diagnose, what with git.exe (a non-MSYS2 program) calling a Perl
script (which is executed by an MSYS2 Perl), piping into another MSYS2
program.

As hunting time is scarce these days, simply work around this for now and
leave the real diagnosis and resolution for later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:04 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
699a244f66 diff: munmap() file contents before running external diff
When running an external diff from, say, a diff tool, it is safe to
assume that we want to write the files in question. On Windows, that
means that there cannot be any other process holding an open handle to
said files.

So let's make sure that `git diff` itself is not holding any open handle
to the files in question.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1315

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6bc2038f66 t9116: work around hard-to-debug hangs
As of a couple of weeks ago, t9116 hangs sometimes -- but not always! --
when being run in the Git for Windows SDK.

The issue seems to be related to redirection via a pipe, but it is really
hard to diagnose, what with git.exe (a non-MSYS2 program) calling a Perl
script (which is executed by an MSYS2 Perl), piping into another MSYS2
program.

As hunting time is scarce these days, simply work around this for now and
leave the real diagnosis and resolution for later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
08dc75b1c3 mingw: make is_hidden tests in t0001/t5611 more robust
We should not actually expect the first `attrib.exe` in the PATH to
be the one we are looking for. Or that it is in the PATH, for that
matter.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
e883a1bdf0 Skip t9020 with MSys2
POSIX-to-Windows path mangling would make it fail.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
f091a57699 Tests: optionally skip redirecting stdin/stdout/stderr
There is a really useful debugging technique developed by Sverre
Rabbelier that inserts "bash &&" somewhere in the test scripts, letting
the developer interact at given points with the current state.

Another debugging technique, used a lot by this here coder, is to run
certain executables via gdb by guarding a "gdb -args" call in
bin-wrappers/git.

Both techniques were disabled by 781f76b1(test-lib: redirect stdin of
tests).

Let's reinstate the ability to run an interactive shell by making the
redirection optional: setting the TEST_NO_REDIRECT environment variable
will skip the redirection.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:03 +01:00
Sebastian Schuberth
3a9a005124 MinGW: Use MakeMaker to build the Perl libraries
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>
2018-11-20 11:23:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
7e3c5ecfe5 mingw: ensure valid CTYPE
A change between versions 2.4.1 and 2.6.0 of the MSYS2 runtime modified
how Cygwin's runtime (and hence Git for Windows' MSYS2 runtime
derivative) handles locales: d16a56306d (Consolidate wctomb/mbtowc calls
for POSIX-1.2008, 2016-07-20).

An unintended side-effect is that "cold-calling" into the POSIX
emulation will start with a locale based on the current code page,
something that Git for Windows is very ill-prepared for, as it expects
to be able to pass a command-line containing non-ASCII characters to the
shell without having those characters munged.

One symptom of this behavior: when `git clone` or `git fetch` shell out
to call `git-upload-pack` with a path that contains non-ASCII
characters, the shell tried to interpret the entire command-line
(including command-line parameters) as executable path, which obviously
must fail.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1036

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:02 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
ed6d834a19 Unbreak interactive GPG prompt upon signing
With the recent update in efee955 (gpg-interface: check gpg signature
creation status, 2016-06-17), we ask GPG to send all status updates to
stderr, and then catch the stderr in an strbuf.

But GPG might fail, and send error messages to stderr. And we simply
do not show them to the user.

Even worse: this swallows any interactive prompt for a passphrase. And
detaches stderr from the tty so that the passphrase cannot be read.

So while the first problem could be fixed (by printing the captured
stderr upon error), the second problem cannot be easily fixed, and
presents a major regression.

So let's just revert commit efee9553a4.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/871

Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:02 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
95ac0bab17 winansi: simplify loading the GetCurrentConsoleFontEx() function
We introduced helper macros to simplify loading functions dynamically.
Might just as well use them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:02 +01:00
Karsten Blees
746ede25ef compat/terminal.c: only use the Windows console if bash 'read -r' fails
Accessing the Windows console through the special CONIN$ / CONOUT$ devices
doesn't work properly for non-ASCII usernames an passwords.

It also doesn't work for terminal emulators that hide the native console
window (such as mintty), and 'TERM=xterm*' is not necessarily a reliable
indicator for such terminals.

The new shell_prompt() function, on the other hand, works fine for both
MSys1 and MSys2, in native console windows as well as mintty, and properly
supports Unicode. It just needs bash on the path (for 'read -s', which is
bash-specific).

On Windows, try to use the shell to read from the terminal. If that fails
with ENOENT (i.e. bash was not found), use CONIN/OUT as fallback.

Note: To test this, create a UTF-8 credential file with non-ASCII chars,
e.g. in git-bash: 'echo url=http://täst.com > cred.txt'. Then in git-cmd,
'git credential fill <cred.txt' works (shell version), while calling git
without the git-wrapper (i.e. 'mingw64\bin\git credential fill <cred.txt')
mangles non-ASCII chars in both console output and input.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:02 +01:00
Karsten Blees
8628eab7e6 mingw: Support git_terminal_prompt with more terminals
The `git_terminal_prompt()` function expects the terminal window to be
attached to a Win32 Console. However, this is not the case with terminal
windows other than `cmd.exe`'s, e.g. with MSys2's own `mintty`.

Non-cmd terminals such as `mintty` still have to have a Win32 Console
to be proper console programs, but have to hide the Win32 Console to
be able to provide more flexibility (such as being resizeable not only
vertically but also horizontally). By writing to that Win32 Console,
`git_terminal_prompt()` manages only to send the prompt to nowhere and
to wait for input from a Console to which the user has no access.

This commit introduces a function specifically to support `mintty` -- or
other terminals that are compatible with MSys2's `/dev/tty` emulation. We
use the `TERM` environment variable as an indicator for that: if the value
starts with "xterm" (such as `mintty`'s "xterm_256color"), we prefer to
let `xterm_prompt()` handle the user interaction.

The most prominent user of `git_terminal_prompt()` is certainly
`git-remote-https.exe`. It is an interesting use case because both
`stdin` and `stdout` are redirected when Git calls said executable, yet
it still wants to access the terminal.

When running inside a `mintty`, the terminal is not accessible to the
`git-remote-https.exe` program, though, because it is a MinGW program
and the `mintty` terminal is not backed by a Win32 console.

To solve that problem, we simply call out to the shell -- which is an
*MSys2* program and can therefore access `/dev/tty`.

Helped-by: nalla <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:02 +01:00
nalla
521ae727f4 mingw: explicitly fflush stdout
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>
2018-11-20 11:23:02 +01:00
Karsten Blees
16e2f6e454 mingw: initialize HOME on startup
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>
2018-11-20 11:23:02 +01:00
Karsten Blees
12c3072574 gettext: always use UTF-8 on native Windows
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.

In this developers' setup, HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H is apparently defined, but
we *really* want to override the locale_charset() here.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:01 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
a11b4991d9 Avoid illegal filenames when building Documentation on NTFS
A '+' is not a valid part of a filename with Windows file systems (it is
reserved because the '+' operator meant file concatenation back in the
DOS days).

Let's just not use it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:01 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
eb489dcf95 mingw: enable stack smashing protector
As suggested privately to Brendan Forster by some unnamed person
(suggestion for the future: use the public mailing list, or even the
public GitHub issue tracker, that is a much better place to offer such
suggestions), we should make use of gcc's stack smashing protector that
helps detect stack buffer overruns early.

Rather than using -fstack-protector, we use -fstack-protector-strong
because it strikes a better balance between how much code is affected
and the performance impact.

In a local test (time git log --grep=is -p), best of 5 timings went from
23.009s to 22.997s (i.e. the performance impact was *well* lost in the
noise).

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/501

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2018-11-20 11:23:01 +01:00