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>
This topic branch addresses the bug where Git for Windows 2.x' Git GUI
failed to generate a working shortcut via Repository>Create Desktop
Shortcut.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When calling `Repository>Create Desktop Shortcut`, Git GUI assumes
that it is okay to call `wish.exe` directly on Windows. However, in
Git for Windows 2.x' context, that leaves several crucial environment
variables uninitialized, resulting in a shortcut that does not work.
To fix those environment variable woes, Git for Windows comes with a
convenient `git-gui.exe`, so let's just use it when it is available.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/448
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
MSys2 might *look* like Cygwin, but it is *not* Cygwin... Unless it
is run with `MSYSTEM=MSYS`, that is.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This topic branch fixes the "is inside work tree" test when it fails
solely due to lower/upper case differences despite the config setting
`core.ignoreCase = true` (Git for Windows' default).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
`$HOME/bin/` is quite convenient a place to put user-specific Git
helpers, such as credential or remote helpers.
When run in Git Bash, it is therefore already appended to the PATH;
Let's do the equivalent when run in Git CMD: when `git.exe` is
called, Git is told to look also for scripts and programs in
`$HOME/bin` (this does not modify Git CMD's `PATH`, of course).
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/429
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git has a config variable to indicate that it is operating on a file
system that is case-insensitive: core.ignoreCase. But the
`dir_inside_of()` function did not respect that. As a result, if Git's
idea of the current working directory disagreed in its upper/lower case
from the `GIT_WORK_TREE` variable (e.g. `C:\test` vs `c:\test`) the
user would be greeted by the error message
fatal: git-am cannot be used without a working tree.
when trying to run a rebase.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/402 (reported by
Daniel Harding).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When `git clone` is asked to dissociate the repository from the
reference repository whose objects were used, it is quite possible that
the pack files need to be repacked. In that case, the pack files need to
be deleted that were originally hard-links to the reference repository's
pack files.
On platforms where a file cannot be deleted if another process still
holds a handle on it, we therefore need to take pains to release all
pack files and indexes before dissociating.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/446
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This makes sure that Git's idea of the current working directory matches
what is recorded on disk (which should be the same as Git's idea).
This helps in particular PowerShell users where the current working
directory can differ in case from what's stored on disk.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The quoting rules of `cmd.exe` are really, really quirky. In particular,
if there are more than two quotes, the entire set of rules changes. That
is the reason why
CMD /C "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe" -l -i
works, but
CMD /C "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\bash.exe" -l -i "test.sh"
fails with this error message:
'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
The recommended fix is to pass the /S option to `cmd.exe` and surround
the entire command-line by an extra set of quotes. And here lies the
rub: for that to work, we have to append an extra quote. At the end of
the command-line. *After* the last argument was appended, if any.
This commit supports that use case by introducing the option
"APPEND_QUOTE". The intended usage is to use the following string
resource:
SHOW_CONSOLE=1 APPEND_QUOTE=1
@@COMSPEC@@ /S /C \"\"@@EXEPATH@@\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe\" --login -i
(Note that there are only three quotes on that command-line, the fourth
to be appended due to the `APPEND_QUOTE` setting.)
This is (1/3) to fix https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/396
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We no longer use any of MSVCRT's stat-functions, so there's no need to
stick to a CRT-compatible 'struct stat' either.
Define and use our own POSIX-2013-compatible 'struct stat' with nanosecond-
precision file times.
Note: Due to performance issues when using git variants with different file
time resolutions, this patch does *not* yet enable nanosecond precision in
the Makefile (use 'make USE_NSEC=1').
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
fstat() is the only stat-related CRT function for which we don't have a
full replacement yet (and thus the only reason to stick with MSVCRT's
'struct stat' definition).
Fully implement fstat(), in preparation of implementing a POSIX 2013
compatible 'struct stat' with nanosecond-precision file times.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
This was probably missed because nobody had a left-over `trash/`
directory and the `-f` flag made sure that no error message was
produced when the file was not found that *actually* wanted to
be removed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When switching the current working directory, say, in PowerShell, it is
quite possible to use a different capitalization than the one that is
recorded on disk. While doing the same in `cmd.exe` adjusts the
capitalization magically, that does not happen in PowerShell so that
`getcwd()` returns the current directory in a different way than is
recorded on disk.
Typically this creates no problems except when you call
git log .
in a subdirectory called, say, "GIT/" but you switched to "Git/" and
your `getcwd()` reports the latter, then Git won't understand that you
wanted to see the history as per the `GIT/` subdirectory but it thinks you
wanted to see the history of some directory that may have existed in the
past (but actually never did).
So let's be extra careful to adjust the capitalization of the current
directory before working with it.
Reported by a few PowerShell power users ;-)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
On Windows, a file name containing a colon is illegal. We should
therefore expect the corresponding errno when `fopen()` is called for a
path of the form <commit>:.gitattributes.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/255.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The _POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS constant is supposed to be defined only
if flockfile() and friends are available. MinGW-w64 defines that
constant, but the functions are not available. Work around that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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>
This topic branch adds the --command=<command> option that allows
starting the Git Bash (or Git CMD) with different terminal emulators
than the one encoded via embedded string resources.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Use msysGit's `git-wrapper` instead of the builtins. This works around
two issues:
- when the file system does not allow hard links, we would waste over
800 megabyte by having 109 copies of a multi-megabyte executable
- even when the file system allows hard links, the Windows Explorer
counts the disk usage as if it did not. Many users complained about
Git for Windows using too much space (when it actually did not). We
can easily avoid those user complaints by merging this branch.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
