The previous implementation said that the filesystem information on
Windows is not reliable to determine whether a file is executable.
To find gather this information it was peeking into the first two bytes
of a file to see whether it looks executable.
Apart from the fact that on Windows executables are usually defined as
such by their extension it lead to slow opening of help file in some
situations.
When you have virus scanner running calling open on an executable file
is a potentially expensive operation. See the following measurements (in
seconds) for example.
With virus scanner running (coldcache):
$ ./a.exe /libexec/git-core/
before open (git-add.exe): 0.000000
after open (git-add.exe): 0.412873
before open (git-annotate.exe): 0.000175
after open (git-annotate.exe): 0.397925
before open (git-apply.exe): 0.000243
after open (git-apply.exe): 0.399996
before open (git-archive.exe): 0.000147
after open (git-archive.exe): 0.397783
before open (git-bisect--helper.exe): 0.000160
after open (git-bisect--helper.exe): 0.397700
before open (git-blame.exe): 0.000160
after open (git-blame.exe): 0.399136
...
With virus scanner running (hotcache):
$ ./a.exe /libexec/git-core/
before open (git-add.exe): 0.000000
after open (git-add.exe): 0.000325
before open (git-annotate.exe): 0.000229
after open (git-annotate.exe): 0.000177
before open (git-apply.exe): 0.000167
after open (git-apply.exe): 0.000150
before open (git-archive.exe): 0.000154
after open (git-archive.exe): 0.000156
before open (git-bisect--helper.exe): 0.000132
after open (git-bisect--helper.exe): 0.000180
before open (git-blame.exe): 0.000718
after open (git-blame.exe): 0.000724
...
This test did just list the given directory and open() each file in it.
With this patch I get:
$ time git help git
Launching default browser to display HTML ...
real 0m8.723s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
and without
$ time git help git
Launching default browser to display HTML ...
real 1m37.734s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.031s
both tests with cold cache and giving the machine some time to settle
down after restart.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <heiko.voigt@mahr.de>
The Git wrapper is also used as a redirector for Git for Windows'
bin\bash.exe dropin: for backwards-compatibility, bin\bash.exe exists
and simply sets up the environment variables before executing the
*real* bash.
However, due to our logic to use the directory in which the `.exe`
lives as top-level directory (or one directory below for certain, known
basenames such as `git.exe` and `gitk.exe`), the `PATH` environment
variable was prefixed with the `/bin/bin` and `/bin/mingw/bin`
directories -- which makes no sense.
Instead, let's just auto-detect the top-level directory in the common
case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We should not conflate the 'exepath' with the 'top-level
directory'. The former should be the directory in which the executable
lives while the latter should be the top-level directory ("POSIX root
directory") as far as Git is concerned.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is a backport of the corresponding patch to the builtin am in 2.6:
3ecc704 (am --skip/--abort: merge HEAD/ORIG_HEAD tree into index,
2015-08-19).
Reportedly, it can make a huge difference on Windows, in one case a `git
rebase --skip` took 1m40s without, and 5s with, this patch.
Reported-and-suggested-by: Kim Gybels <kim.gybels@engilico.com>
Original report: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/365
Acked-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When we show "branch@{0}", we format into a fixed-size
buffer using sprintf. This can overflow if you have long
branch names. We can fix it by using a temporary strbuf.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function assumes that the relative_base path passed
into it is no larger than PATH_MAX, and writes into a
fixed-size buffer. However, this path may not have actually
come from the filesystem; for example, add_submodule_odb
generates a path using a strbuf and passes it in. This is
hard to trigger in practice, though, because the long
submodule directory would have to exist on disk before we
would try to open its info/alternates file.
We can easily avoid the bug, though, by simply creating the
filename on the heap.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we are loading a notes tree into our internal hash
table, we also collect any files that are clearly non-notes.
We format the name of the file into a PATH_MAX buffer, but
unlike true notes (which cannot be larger than a fanned-out
sha1 hash), these tree entries can be arbitrarily long,
overflowing our buffer.
We can fix this by switching to a strbuf. It doesn't even
cost us an extra allocation, as we can simply hand ownership
of the buffer over to the non-note struct.
This is of moderate security interest, as you might fetch
notes trees from an untrusted remote. However, we do not do
so by default, so you would have to manually fetch into the
notes namespace.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When unpack-trees wants to know whether a path will
overwrite anything in the working tree, we use lstat() to
see if there is anything there. But if we are going to write
"foo/bar", we can't just lstat("foo/bar"); we need to look
for leading prefixes (e.g., "foo"). So we use the lstat cache
to find the length of the leading prefix, and copy the
filename up to that length into a temporary buffer (since
the original name is const, we cannot just stick a NUL in
it).
The copy we make goes into a PATH_MAX-sized buffer, which
will overflow if the prefix is longer than PATH_MAX. How
this happens is a little tricky, since in theory PATH_MAX is
the biggest path we will have read from the filesystem. But
this can happen if:
- the compiled-in PATH_MAX does not accurately reflect
what the filesystem is capable of
- the leading prefix is not _quite_ what is on disk; it
contains the next element from the name we are checking.
So if we want to write "aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd" and "aaa/bbb"
exists, the prefix of interest is "aaa/bbb/ccc". If
"aaa/bbb" approaches PATH_MAX, then "ccc" can overflow
it.
So this can be triggered, but it's hard to do. In
particular, you cannot just "git clone" a bogus repo. The
verify_absent checks happen before unpack-trees writes
anything to the filesystem, so there are never any leading
prefixes during the initial checkout, and the bug doesn't
trigger. And by definition, these files are larger than
PATH_MAX, so writing them will fail, and clone will
complain (though it may write a partial path, which will
cause a subsequent "git checkout" to hit the bug).
We can fix it by creating the temporary path on the heap.
The extra malloc overhead is not important, as we are
already making at least one stat() call (and probably more
for the prefix discovery).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git init empty && git -C empty log" said "bad default revision 'HEAD'",
which was found to be a bit confusing to new users.
* jk/log-missing-default-HEAD:
log: diagnose empty HEAD more clearly
The "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a multi-paragraph title of
a commit log message with a colon in it as the end of the trailer
block.
* cc/trailers-corner-case-fix:
trailer: support multiline title
trailer: retitle a test and correct an in-comment message
trailer: ignore first line of message
When re-priming the cache-tree opportunistically while committing
the in-core index as-is, we mistakenly invalidated the in-core
index too aggressively, causing the experimental split-index code
to unnecessarily rewrite the on-disk index file(s).
* dt/commit-preserve-base-index-upon-opportunistic-cache-tree-update:
commit: don't rewrite shared index unnecessarily
"git archive" did not use zip64 extension when creating an archive
with more than 64k entries, which nobody should need, right ;-)?
* rs/archive-zip-many:
archive-zip: support more than 65535 entries
archive-zip: use a local variable to store the creator version
t5004: test ZIP archives with many entries
The code in "multiple-worktree" support that attempted to recover
from an inconsistent state updated an incorrect file.
* nd/fixup-linked-gitdir:
setup: update the right file in multiple checkouts
"git rev-list" does not take "--notes" option, but did not complain
when one is given.
* jk/rev-list-has-no-notes:
rev-list: make it obvious that we do not support notes
Because the configuration system does not allow "alias.0foo" and
"pager.0foo" as the configuration key, the user cannot use '0foo'
as a custom command name anyway, but "git 0foo" tried to look these
keys up and emitted useless warnings before saying '0foo is not a
git command'. These warning messages have been squelched.
* jk/fix-alias-pager-config-key-warnings:
config: silence warnings for command names with invalid keys
t1509 test that requires a dedicated VM environment had some
bitrot, which has been corrected.
* ps/t1509-chroot-test-fixup:
tests: fix cleanup after tests in t1509-root-worktree
tests: fix broken && chains in t1509-root-worktree
strbuf_read() used to have one extra iteration (and an unnecessary
strbuf_grow() of 8kB), which was eliminated.
* jh/strbuf-read-use-read-in-full:
strbuf_read(): skip unnecessary strbuf_grow() at eof
The codepath to produce error messages had a hard-coded limit to
the size of the message, primarily to avoid memory allocation while
calling die().
* jk/long-error-messages:
vreportf: avoid intermediate buffer
vreportf: report to arbitrary filehandles
When trying to see that an object does not exist, a state errno
leaked from our "first try to open a packfile with O_NOATIME and
then if it fails retry without it" logic on a system that refuses
O_NOATIME. This confused us and caused us to die, saying that the
packfile is unreadable, when we should have just reported that the
object does not exist in that packfile to the caller.
* cb/open-noatime-clear-errno:
git_open_noatime: return with errno=0 on success
An off-by-one error made "git remote" to mishandle a remote with a
single letter nickname.
* mh/get-remote-group-fix:
get_remote_group(): use skip_prefix()
get_remote_group(): eliminate superfluous call to strcspn()
get_remote_group(): rename local variable "space" to "wordlen"
get_remote_group(): handle remotes with single-character names
We currently ignore the first line passed to `git interpret-trailers`,
when looking for the beginning of the trailers.
Unfortunately this does not work well when a commit is created with a
line break in the title, using for example the following command:
git commit -m 'place of
code: change we made'
That's why instead of ignoring only the first line, it is better to
ignore the first paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While we are here, remove some boilerplate by using test_commit.
Signed-off-by: Erik Elfström <erik.elfstrom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you init or clone an empty repository, the initial
message from running "git log" is not very friendly:
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/peff/foo/.git/
$ git log
fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD'
Let's detect this situation and write a more friendly
message:
$ git log
fatal: your current branch 'master' does not have any commits yet
We also detect the case that 'HEAD' points to a broken ref;
this should be even less common, but is easy to see. Note
that we do not diagnose all possible cases. We rely on
resolve_ref, which means we do not get information about
complex cases. E.g., "--default master" would use dwim_ref
to find "refs/heads/master", but we notice only that
"master" does not exist. Similarly, a complex sha1
expression like "--default HEAD^2" will not resolve as a
ref.
But that's OK. We fall back to a generic error message in
those cases, and they are unlikely to be used anyway.
Catching an empty or broken "HEAD" improves the common case,
and the other cases are not regressed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove a cache invalidation which would cause the shared index to be
rewritten on as-is commits.
When the cache-tree has changed, we need to update it. But we don't
necessarily need to update the shared index. So setting
active_cache_changed to SOMETHING_CHANGED is unnecessary. Instead, we
let update_main_cache_tree just update the CACHE_TREE_CHANGED bit.
In order to test this, make test-dump-split-index not segfault on
missing replace_bitmap/delete_bitmap. This new codepath is not called
now that the test passes, but is necessary to avoid a segfault when the
new test is run with the old builtin/commit.c code.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Acked-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Just like we support having alternates pointing to different drives, we
want to support alternates pointing to network shares, i.e. UNC paths.
Technically, what we do in this patch is not to support UNC alternates,
but to support UNC paths when normalizing paths. But the latter implies
the former, and the former really was the motivation for this patch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
27e1e22d (prune: factor out loose-object directory traversal, 2014-10-16)
introduced a new function for_each_loose_file_in_objdir() with a helper
for_each_file_in_obj_subdir(). The latter calls callbacks for each file
found during a directory traversal and finally also a callback for the
directory itself.
git-prune uses the function to clean up the object directory. In
particular, in the directory callback it calls rmdir(). On Windows XP,
this rmdir call fails, because the directory is still open while the
callback is called. Close the directory before calling the callback.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git only colours the output and uses pagination if isatty() returns 1.
MSys and Cygwin emulate pseudo terminals via named pipes, meaning that
isatty() returns 0.
Commit 3adef8de55 fixed this for MSys
terminals, but not Cygwin.
The named pipes that Cygwin and Msys use are very similar. MSys PTY pipes
are called 'msys-*-pty*' and Cygwin uses 'cygwin-*-pty*'. This commit
modifies the existing check to allow both MSys and Cygwin PTY pipes to be
identified as TTYs.
Note that Pagination is still broken on Cygwin. less.exe is spawned (as
seen in Process Explorer and using GIT_TRACE=1), but the output is not
being piped into it.
This partially fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/267
Signed-off-by: Alan Davies <alan.n.davies@gmail.com>
