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.
To handle the case when standard input/output are redirected – as is the
case when pushing via HTTPS: `git-remote-https`' standard input and
output are pipes from/to the main Git executable – we make use of the
`MSYS_TTY_HANDLES` environment variable that was introduced to
fix another bug in MSys2-based Git: this environment variable contains
the Win32 `HANDLE`s of the standard input, output and error as originally
passed from MSys2 to the Git executable, enclosed within space
characters, skipping handles that do not refer to the terminal window
(e.g. when they were redirected). We will only use those handles when
that environment variable lists all three handles because then we can be
100% certain that we are running inside a terminal window, and that we
know exactly which Win32 handles to use to communicate with it.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: nalla <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
The environment is modified in most surprising circumstances, and not
all of them are under Git's control. For example, calling
curl_global_init() on Windows will ensure that the CHARSET variable is
set, adding one if necessary.
While the previous commit worked around crashes triggered by such
outside changes of the environment by relaxing the requirement that the
environment be terminated by a NULL pointer, the other assumption made
by `mingw_getenv()` and `mingw_putenv()` is that the environment is
sorted, for efficient lookup via binary search.
Let's make real sure that our environment is intact before querying or
modifying it, and reinitialize our idea of the environment if necessary.
With this commit, before working on the environment we look briefly for
indicators that the environment was modified outside of our control, and
to ensure that it is terminated with a NULL pointer and sorted again in
that case.
Note: the indicators are maybe not sufficient. For example, when a
variable is removed, it will not be noticed. It might also be a problem
if outside changes to the environment result in a modified `environ`
pointer: it is unclear whether such a modification could result in a
problem when `mingw_putenv()` needs to `realloc()` the environment
buffer.
For the moment, however, the current fix works well enough, so let's
only face the potential problems when (and if!) they occur.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Outside of our Windows-specific code, the end of the environment can be
marked also by a pointer to a NUL character, not only by a NULL pointer
as our code assumed so far.
That led to a buffer overrun in `make_environment_block()` when running
`git-remote-https` in `mintty` (because `curl_global_init()` added the
`CHARSET` environment variable *outside* of `mingw_putenv()`, ending the
environment in a pointer to an empty string).
Side note for future debugging on Windows: when running programs in
`mintty`, the standard input/output/error is not connected to a Win32
Console, but instead is pipe()d. That means that even stderr may not be
written completely before a crash, but has to be fflush()ed explicitly.
For example, when debugging crashes, the developer should insert an
`fflush(stderr);` at the end of the `error()` function defined in
usage.c.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This was originally 'pull request #330 from ethomson/poll_inftim' in
msysgit/git.
poll: honor the timeout on Win32
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Ensure that when passing a pipe, the gnulib poll replacement will not
return 0 before the timeout has passed.
Not obeying the timeout (and merely returning 0) causes pathological
behavior when preparing a packfile for a repository and taking a
long time to do so. If poll were to return 0 immediately, this would
cause keep-alives to get sent as quickly as possible until the packfile
was created. Such deviance from the standard would cause megabytes (or
more) of keep-alive packets to be sent.
GetTickCount is used as it is efficient, stable and monotonically
increasing. (Neither GetSystemTime nor QueryPerformanceCounter have
all three of these properties.)
This fixes the MSYS1-based build which otherwise would have the variables
but not the build targets.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Embed the manifest in the Git wrapper, too
This is needed for builtins such as 'patch-id' to avoid triggering
Windows' User Access Control.
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>
It is unlikely that we have an empty environment, ever, but *if* we do,
when `environ_size - 1` is passed to `bsearchenv()` it is misinterpreted
as a real large integer.
To make the code truly defensive, refuse to do anything at all if the
size is negative (which should not happen, of course).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This change simply makes the Git wrapper's source code conform to Git's
coding guide lines.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Test clean-up.
* jc/diff-test-updates:
test_ln_s_add: refresh stat info of fake symbolic links
t4008: modernise style
t/diff-lib: check exact object names in compare_diff_raw
tests: do not borrow from COPYING and README from the real source
t4010: correct expected object names
t9300: correct expected object names
t4008: correct stale comments
A corrupt input to "git diff -M" can cause us to segfault.
* jk/diffcore-rename-duplicate:
diffcore-rename: avoid processing duplicate destinations
diffcore-rename: split locate_rename_dst into two functions
The borrowed code in kwset API did not follow our usual convention
to use "unsigned char" to store values that range from 0-255.
* bw/kwset-use-unsigned:
kwset: use unsigned char to store values with high-bit set
Description given by "grep -h" for its --exclude-standard option
was phrased poorly.
* nd/grep-exclude-standard-help-fix:
grep: correct help string for --exclude-standard
"git remote add" mentioned "--tags" and "--no-tags" and was not
clear that fetch from the remote in the future will use the default
behaviour when neither is given to override it.
* mg/doc-remote-tags-or-not:
git-remote.txt: describe behavior without --tags and --no-tags
"git diff --shortstat --dirstat=changes" showed a dirstat based on
lines that was never asked by the end user in addition to the
dirstat that the user asked for.
* mk/diff-shortstat-dirstat-fix:
diff --shortstat --dirstat: remove duplicate output
The interaction between "git submodule update" and the
submodule.*.update configuration was not clearly documented.
* ms/submodule-update-config-doc:
submodule: improve documentation of update subcommand
"git apply" was not very careful about reading from, removing,
updating and creating paths outside the working tree (under
--index/--cached) or the current directory (when used as a
replacement for GNU patch).
* jc/apply-beyond-symlink:
apply: do not touch a file beyond a symbolic link
apply: do not read from beyond a symbolic link
apply: do not read from the filesystem under --index
apply: reject input that touches outside the working area
"git daemon" looked up the hostname even when "%CH" and "%IP"
interpolations are not requested, which was unnecessary.
* rs/daemon-interpolate:
daemon: use callback to build interpolated path
daemon: look up client-supplied hostname lazily
The "interpolated-path" option of "git daemon" inserted any string
client declared on the "host=" capability request without checking.
Sanitize and limit %H and %CH to a saner and a valid DNS name.
* jk/daemon-interpolate:
daemon: sanitize incoming virtual hostname
t5570: test git-daemon's --interpolated-path option
git_connect: let user override virtual-host we send to daemon
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>
If we use 'eval exec $opt $cmdp $args' to execute git command,
tcl engine will convert the output of the git comand with the rule
system default code page to unicode.
But cp936 -> unicode conversion implicitly done by exec is not reversible.
So we have to use git_read instead.
Bug report and an original reproducer by Cloud Chou:
https://github.com/msysgit/git/issues/302
Karsten Blees writes this code patch.
Cloud Chou find the reason of the bug.
Thanks-to: dscho
Thanks-to: patthoyts
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Original-test-by: Cloud Chou <515312382@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: Cloud Chou <515312382@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MSys2 has a slightly different notion of what constitutes a tty than
the Microsoft C runtime. The former knows whether stdin/stdout/stderr
was redirected or not, while the latter looks for a Win32 Console.
In particular when we want to know whether to spawn a pager or not, we
would rather want to know what MSys2 thinks.
We are about to introduce a change to the msys2-runtime that sets an
environment variable MSYS_TTY_HANDLES to a list of Win32 handles that
correspond to stdin/stdout/stderr, respectively, *but skips* handles that
MSys2 does not think are terminals.
This commit handles that input to augment the isatty() function to return
1 also when MSYS_TTY_HANDLES contains the corresponding handle.
The only time when Git needs to know whether a Console is attached or not
is when winansi.c is asked to Do Its Thing, therefore we refrain from
overriding isatty there.
Note: this was an issue with MSys1-based Git for Windows, too, hidden by
the fact that Git for Windows used `cmd.exe` as a terminal -- which is
backed by a real Win32 Console. Had MSys1 used, say, rxvt as its default
terminal, the symptom would have been that "git log" does not spawn a
pager by default but instead outputs the entire history (without color
coding, too). In MSys2, the default terminal is mintty, therefore we
finally could not avoid to address the issue.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The CVS tests expect `pwd` to return a POSIX-style directory. Let's skip
our MinGW-specific override to let `pwd` output a Windows-style directory
for that reason.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: 마누엘 <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
Replace the commit message with this one:
Assorted header fixes to support MSys2-based MinGW build
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).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows >= Vista, not having an application manifest with a
requestedExecutionLevel can cause several kinds of confusing behavior.
The first and more obvious behavior is "Installer Detection", where
Windows sometimes decides (by looking at things like the file name and
even sequences of bytes within the executable) that an executable is an
installer and should run elevated (causing the well-known popup dialog
to appear). In Git's context, subcommands such as "git patch-id" or "git
update-index" fall prey to this behavior.
The second and more confusing behavior is "File Virtualization". It
means that when files are written without having write permission, it
does not fail (as expected), but they are instead redirected to
somewhere else. When the files are read, the original contents are
returned, though, not the ones that were just written somewhere else.
Even more confusing, not all write accesses are redirected; Trying to
write to write-protected .exe files, for example, will fail instead of
redirecting.
In addition to being unwanted behavior, File Virtualization causes
dramatic slowdowns in Git (see for instance
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=320).
There are two ways to prevent those two behaviors: Either you embed an
application manifest within all your executables, or you add an external
manifest (a file with the same name followed by .manifest) to all your
executables. Since Git's builtins are hardlinked (or copied), it is
simpler and more robust to embed a manifest.
A recent enough MSVC compiler should already embed a working internal
manifest, but for MinGW you have to do so by hand.
Very lightly tested on Wine, where like on Windows XP it should not make
any difference.
References:
- New UAC Technologies for Windows Vista
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx
- Create and Embed an Application Manifest (UAC)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx
[js: simplified the embedding dramatically by reusing Git for Windows'
existing Windows resource file, removed the optional (and dubious)
processorArchitecture attribute of the manifest's assemblyIdentity
section.]
Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Code cleanups.
* rs/simple-cleanups:
sha1_name: use strlcpy() to copy strings
pretty: use starts_with() to check for a prefix
for-each-ref: use skip_prefix() to avoid duplicate string comparison
connect: use strcmp() for string comparison
The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to
discover in the documentation.
* mm/am-c-doc:
Documentation/git-am.txt: mention mailinfo.scissors config variable
Documentation/config.txt: document mailinfo.scissors
