Windows 7 allows users to pin running applications to the task bar. By
setting the application ID, multiple processes can share a single task
bar entry, and this is exactly what we need for `git-bash.exe` which
wants to share the task bar entry with the `mintty.exe` instance it
launches.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The idea of `git-bash.exe` automatically running the Git Bash in the
home directory was to support the start menu item `Git Bash` (which
should not start in C:\Program Files\Git, but in $HOME), and to make
that behavior consistent with double-clicking in `git-bash.exe`
portable Git.
However, it turns out that one of the main use cases of portable Git is
to run the Git Bash in GitHub for Windows, and it should start in the
top-level directory of a given project. Therefore, the concern to keep
double-clicking `git-bash.exe` consistent with the start menu item was
actually unfounded.
As to the start menu item: it can easily be changed to launch
`git-bash.exe` with a command-line option. So let's introduce the
--cd-to-home option for that purpose.
As a bonus, the Git wrapper can now also serve as a drop-in redirector
/bin/bash.exe to provide backwards-compatibility of Git for Windows 2.x
with 1.x: some 3rd-party software expects to find that executable there,
and it also expects it to leave the working directory unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
By embedding string resources into the Git wrapper executable, it
can be configured to execute custom commands (after setting up the
environment in the way required for Git for Windows to work properly).
This feature is used e.g. for `git-bash.exe` which launches a Bash in
the configured terminal window.
Here, we introduce command-line options to override those string
resources. That way, a user can call `git-bash.exe` (which is a copy of
the Git wrapper with `usr\bin\bash.exe --login -i` embedded as string
resource) with command-line options that will override what command is
run.
ConEmu, for example, might want to call
...\git-bash.exe --needs-console --no-hide --minimal-search-path ^
--command=usr\\bin\\bash.exe --login -i
In particular, the following options are supported now:
--command=<command-line>::
Executes `<command-line>` instead of the embedded string resource
--[no-]minimal-search-path::
Ensures that only `/cmd/` is added to the `PATH` instead of
`/mingw??/bin` and `/usr/bin/`, or not
--[no-]needs-console::
Ensures that there is a Win32 console associated with the spawned
process, or not
--[no-]hide::
Hides the console window, or not
Helped-by: Eli Young <elyscape@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We will enhance the function in the next commit to support @@VAR@@
expansion in the upcoming `--command=<command>` option.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Using different code pages for console input (SetConsoleCP()) and console
output (SetConsoleOutputCP()) doesn't make much sense and may be hazardous
for native Windows programs.
Git uses UTF-8 internally, so it actually needs 'SetConsoleCP(CP_UTF8)'
rather than 'SetConsoleCP(GetACP())'. However, ReadFile() / ReadConsoleA()
are broken with CP_UTF8 (and thus any higher level APIs such as fgetc(),
getchar() etc.). Unicode-aware console input would have to be implemented
via mingw_* wrappers using ReadConsoleW(). As Git typically launches an
editor for anything more complex than ASCII-only, yes/no-style questions,
this is currently not a problem.
Drop 'SetConsoleCP()' from the git-wrapper, so that input and output code
pages stay in sync.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
When we fall back to starting the Git Bash in the regular Windows
console, we need to show said console's window... So let's introduce yet
another configuration knob for use via string resources.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
With a recent change in Cygwin (which is the basis of the msys2-runtime),
a GUI process desiring to launch an MSys2 executable needs to allocate a
console for the new process (otherwise the process will just hang on
Windows XP). _Git Bash_ is such a GUI process.
While at it, use correct handles when inheriting the stdin/stdout/stderr
handles: `GetStdHandle()` returns NULL for invalid handles, but the
STARTUPINFO must specify `INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE` instead.
Originally, the hope was that only this `NULL` => `INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE`
conversion would be required to fix the Windows XP issue mentioned above
(extensive debugging revealed that starting _Git Bash_ on Windows XP would
yield invalid handles for `stdin` and `stderr`, but *not* for `stdout`).
However, while _Git Bash_ eventually showed a `mintty` when not allocating
a new console, it took around one second to show it, and several seconds
to close it. So let's just include both fixes.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
With the resource-driven command-line configuration, we introduced the
option to ensure that only the PATH environment variable is edited only
minimally, i.e. only /cmd/ is added (as appropriate for _Git CMD_).
We are about to add another option, so let's refactor the equivalent of
Git's `strip_prefix()` function; It is not *quite* the same because we
have to `memmove()` the remainder to the beginning of the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
git-wrapper fails to initialize HOME correctly if $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
points to a disconnected network drive.
Check if the directory exists before using $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
This change accompanies the `--no-cd` option when configured via
resources. It is required to support `Git Bash Here`: when
right-clicking an icon in the Explorer to start a Bash, the working
directory is actually the directory that is displayed in the Explorer.
That means if the clicked icon actually refers to a directory, the
working directory would be its *parent* directory.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To avoid that ugly Console window when calling \cmd\git.exe gui...
To avoid confusion with builtins, we need to move the code block
handling gitk (and now git-gui, too) to intercept before git-gui is
mistaken for a builtin.
Unfortunately, git-gui is in libexec/git-core/ while gitk is in bin/,
therefore we need slightly more adjustments than just moving and
augmenting the gitk case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When *Git for Windows* is installed into a directory that has spaces in
it, e.g. `C:\Program Files\Git`, the `git-wrapper` appends this directory
unquoted when fixing up the command line. To resolve this, just quote the
provided `execpath`.
Signed-off-by: nalla <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
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>
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>
* js/mingw-tests-2.8:
mingw: skip some tests in t9115 due to file name issues
t1300: fix the new --show-origin tests on Windows
t1300-repo-config: make it resilient to being run via 'sh -x'
config --show-origin: report paths with forward slashes
A fix for a small regression in "module_list" helper that was
rewritten in C (also applies to 2.7.x).
* sb/submodule-module-list-pathspec-fix:
submodule: fix regression for deinit without submodules
These two tests wanted to write file names which are incompatible with
Windows' file naming rules (even if they pass using Cygwin due to
Cygwin's magic path mangling).
While at it, skip the same tests also on MacOSX/HFS, as pointed out by
Torsten Bögershausen.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Windows, we have that funny situation where the test script can refer
to POSIX paths because it runs in a shell that uses a POSIX emulation
layer ("MSYS2 runtime"). Yet, git.exe does *not* understand POSIX paths
at all but only pure Windows paths.
So let's just convert the POSIX paths to Windows paths before passing
them on to Git, using `pwd` (which is already modified on Windows to
output Windows paths).
While fixing the new tests on Windows, we also have to exclude the tests
that want to write a file with a name that is illegal on Windows
(unfortunately, there is more than one test trying to make use of that
file).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
One way to diagnose broken regression tests is to run the test
script using 'sh -x t... -i -v' to find out which call actually
demonstrates the symptom.
Hence it is pretty counterproductive if the test script behaves
differently when being run via 'sh -x', in particular when using
test_cmp or test_i18ncmp on redirected stderr. A more recent way
"sh tXXXX -i -v -x" has the same issue.
So let's use test_i18ngrep (as suggested by Jonathan Nieder) instead of
test_cmp/test_i18ncmp to verify that stderr looks as expected.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Windows, the backslash is the native directory separator, but all
supported Windows versions also accept the forward slash in most
circumstances.
Our tests expect forward slashes.
Relative paths are generated by Git using forward slashes.
So let's try to be consistent and use forward slashes in the $HOME part
of the paths reported by `git config --show-origin`, too.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Per Cederqvist wrote:
> It used to be possible to run
>
> git submodule deinit -f .
>
> to remove any submodules, no matter how many submodules you had. That
> is no longer possible in projects that don't have any submodules at
> all. The command will fail with:
>
> error: pathspec '.' did not match any file(s) known to git.
This regression was introduced in 74703a1e4d (submodule: rewrite
`module_list` shell function in C, 2015-09-02), as we changed the
order of checking in new module listing to first check whether it is
a gitlin before feeding it to match_pathspec(). It used to be that
a pathspec that does not match any path were diagnosed as an error,
but the new code complains for a pathspec that does not match any
submodule path.
Arguably the new behaviour may give us a better diagnosis, but that
is inconsistent with the suggestion "deinit" gives, and also this
was an unintended accident. The new behaviour hopefully can be
redesigned and implemented better in future releases, but for now,
switch these two checks to restore the same behavior as before. In
an empty repository, giving the pathspec '.' will still get the same
"did not match" error, but that is the same bug we had before 1.7.0.
Reported-by: Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
