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Johannes Schindelin
fb7aeb6b79 Merge 'fix-externals' into HEAD 2017-01-10 23:23:48 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
fd3d4460e5 Merge 'remote-hg-prerequisites' into HEAD
These fixes were necessary for Sverre Rabbelier's remote-hg to work,
but for some magic reason they are not necessary for the current
remote-hg. Makes you wonder how that one gets away with it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:23:43 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
fcc34d6a35 Merge 'win-tests-fixes' into HEAD 2017-01-10 23:23:38 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
91f2c57b1f Merge 'msys2' into HEAD
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:23:34 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
e64b7e9bd9 Merge 'resource-version' into HEAD 2017-01-10 23:23:29 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
5c94c86898 Merge 'cygwin-fixes' into HEAD 2017-01-10 23:23:23 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
1eec43f5be Merge 'jberezanski/wincred-sso-r2' into HEAD 2017-01-10 23:23:18 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
f14199e928 Merge 'gitk' into HEAD 2017-01-10 23:23:13 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
a8fec08e1c Merge branch 'msys2-git-gui'
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>
2017-01-10 23:23:08 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
dab3f888c6 Merge 'git-gui' into HEAD 2017-01-10 23:23:03 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
63cd2d8994 Merge 'readme' into HEAD
Add a README.md for GitHub goodness.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:22:57 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
7d411b34c8 Merge branch 'redirect-std-handles'
This topic branch introduces a highly-experimental feature allowing to
override stdin/stdout/stderr by setting environment variables e.g. to
named pipes, solving a problem in highly multi-threaded applications
where inheritable handles could cause blocked Git operations.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:22:52 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
d24eae0f02 mingw: load system libraries the recommended way
When we access IPv6-related functions, we load the corresponding system
library using the `LoadLibrary()` function, which is not the recommended
way to load system libraries.

In practice, it does not make a difference: the `ws2_32.dll` library
containing the IPv6 functions is already loaded into memory, so
LoadLibrary() simply reuses the already-loaded library.

Still, recommended way is recommended way, so let's use that instead.

While at it, also adjust the code in contrib/ that loads system libraries.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:23 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
3ce872ed58 Windows: force-recompile git.res for differing architectures
When git.rc is compiled into git.res, the result is actually dependent
on the architecture. That is, you cannot simply link a 32-bit git.res
into a 64-bit git.exe.

Therefore, to allow 32-bit and 64-bit builds in the same directory, we
let git.res depend on GIT-PREFIX so that it gets recompiled when
compiling for a different architecture (this works because the exec path
changes based on the architecture: /mingw32/libexec/git-core for 32-bit
and /mingw64/libexec/git-core for 64-bit).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:23 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
b596a7b189 mingw: Suppress warning that <commit>:.gitattributes does not exist
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>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
Karsten Blees
2f9ebe85df 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>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
Karsten Blees
0f21406787 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>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
nalla
929ae7cad7 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>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
Karsten Blees
d702205aa4 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>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
dff093197b mingw: HOT FIX: work around environment issues -- again
This developer should really, really have known better. The fact that we
are changing the environment in ways for which the MSVCRT is not
prepared for is bad enough. But then this developer followed the request
to re-enable nedmalloc -- despite the prediction that it would cause an
access violation, predicting it in the same message as the request to
re-enable nedmalloc, no less!

To paper over the issue until the time when this developer finds the
time to re-design the Unicode environment handling from scratch, let's
hope that cURL is the only library we are using that *may* set an
environment variable using MSVCRT's putenv() after we fscked the
environment up.

Note: this commit can serve as no source of pride to anyone, certainly
not yours truly. It is necessary as a quick and pragmatic stop gap,
though, to prevent worse problems.

Note: cURL manages to set the variable CHARSET when nedmalloc is *not*
enabled, without causing an access violation. In that case, it sets it
successfully to the value "cp" + GetACP() (hence it is our choice, too,
cURL may need it, Git does not):

	https://github.com/bagder/curl/blob/aa5808b5/lib/easy.c#L157-L162

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
Karsten Blees
178cb38010 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>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
e530092f52 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>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
c833e26102 git-gui (MinGW): make use of MSys2's msgfmt
When Git for Windows was still based on MSys1, we had no gettext, ergo
no msgfmt, either. Therefore, we introduced a small and simple Tcl
script to perform the same task.

However, with MSys2, we no longer need that because we have a proper
msgfmt executable. Plus, the po2msg.sh script somehow manages to hang
when run in parallel.

Two reasons to use real msgfmt.exe instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
870cc267ec mingw: be *very* wary about outside environment changes
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>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
1691a25dbc mingw: be more defensive when making the environment block
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>
2017-01-10 23:21:22 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
abfbb5e5e7 UTF-8 environment: be a little bit more defensive
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>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
b91853576d 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>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Cesar Eduardo Barros
de323aa144 mingw: Embed a manifest to trick UAC into Doing The Right Thing
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>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
f7137282c8 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>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
30cc582c7c Error out when mingw_startup() *and* NO_UNSETENV are active
The unsetenv code has no idea to update our environ_size, therefore
causing segmentation faults when environment variables are removed
without compat/mingw.c's knowing (MinGW's optimized lookup would try
to strcmp() against NULL in such a case).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
d17369a77e Build Python stuff with MSys2
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
51e0d9da90 Help debugging with MSys2 by optionally executing bash with strace
MSys2's strace facility is very useful for debugging... With this patch,
the bash will be executed through strace if the environment variable
GIT_STRACE_COMMANDS is set, which comes in real handy when investigating
issues in the test suite.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Sebastian Schuberth
3730a8b25e Makefile: Set htmldir to match the default HTML docs location under MSYS
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Sebastian Schuberth
de51b3d7be 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>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
d85bb25379 http: also treat config options sslCert and sslKey as paths
This is a companion patch to bf9acba (http: treat config options
sslCAPath and sslCAInfo as paths, 2015-11-23).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
f9d2de8a68 mingw: handle absolute paths in expand_user_path()
On Windows, an absolute POSIX path needs to be turned into a Windows
one.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Jeff Hostetler
48a104c18b mingw: use OpenSSL's SHA-1 routines
Use OpenSSL's SHA-1 routines rather than builtin block-sha1 routines.
This improves performance on SHA1 operations on Intel processors.

OpenSSL 1.0.2 has made considerable performance improvements and
support the Intel hardware acceleration features.  See:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/improving-openssl-performance
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sha-extensions

To test this I added/staged a single file in a gigantic
repository having a 450MB index file.  The code in read-cache.c
verifies the header SHA as it reads the index and computes a new
header SHA as it writes out the new index.  Therefore, in this test
the SHA code must process 900MB of data.  Testing was done on an
Intel I7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (Intel64, Family 6, Model 60) CPU.

The block-sha1 version averaged 5.27 seconds.
The OpenSSL    version averaged 4.50 seconds.

================================================================

$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/blk_sha/bin/git.exe add project.mk

real    0m5.207s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.250s

$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/blk_sha/bin/git.exe add project.mk

real    0m5.362s
user    0m0.015s
sys     0m0.234s

$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/blk_sha/bin/git.exe add project.mk

real    0m5.300s
user    0m0.016s
sys     0m0.250s

$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/blk_sha/bin/git.exe add project.mk

real    0m5.216s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.250s

================================================================
$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/openssl/bin/git.exe add project.mk

real    0m4.431s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.250s

$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/openssl/bin/git.exe add project.mk

real    0m4.478s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.265s

$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/openssl/bin/git.exe add project.mk

real    0m4.690s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.250s

$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/openssl/bin/git.exe add project.mk

real    0m4.420s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.234s

================================================================

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:21 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
6b376dd948 Merge pull request #93 from nalla/asciidoctor-fixes
Asciidoctor fixes

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:16 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
552029cd82 Merge 'long-paths' into HEAD 2017-01-10 23:21:11 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
f239715960 Merge 'fscache' into HEAD 2017-01-10 23:21:06 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
23af48dc60 Merge branch 'perl5lib'
With this topic branch, the PERL5LIB variable is unset to avoid external
settings from interfering with Git's own Perl interpreter.

This branch also cleans up some of our Windows-only config setting code
(and this will need to be rearranged in the next merging rebase so that
the cleanup comes first, and fscache and longPaths support build on
top).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:21:02 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
b1954428a0 Merge branch 'mingw-isatty-fixup-v3'
This is an evil merge: it changes more than the merged commits, as the
merged branch replaces part of the MSVC patches.

This mess will need to be cleaned up in the next merging rebase, by
moving the mingw-isatty-fixup patches in front of the MSVC patches.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:20:57 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
b16a93ed62 mingw: include the full version information in the resources
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/723

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:20:54 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
a9786a7a2e Merge 'cygwin-fixes' into HEAD 2017-01-10 23:20:24 +01:00
Steven Penny
160303876c Makefile: put LIBS after LDFLAGS for imap-send
This matches up with the targets git-%, git-http-fetch, git-http-push
and git-remote-testsvn. It must be done this way in Cygwin else lcrypto
cannot find lgdi32 and lws2_32.

Signed-off-by: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:12:18 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
828a808683 Makefile: POSIX windres
When environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, the "input -o output"
syntax is not supported.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00036.html

Signed-off-by: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 23:12:16 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
8a2dbb87f8 mingw: document the experimental standard handle redirection
This feature is still highly experimental and has not even been
contributed to the Git mailing list yet: the feature still needs to be
battle-tested more.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 22:58:20 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
8ff25f37b4 mingw: special-case GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR=2>&1
The "2>&1" notation in POSIX shells implies that stderr is redirected to
stdout. Let's special-case this value for the environment variable
GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR to allow writing to the same destination as stdout.

The functionality was suggested by Jeff Hostetler.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 22:58:20 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
1cf4bbb229 mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles
On Windows, file handles need to be marked inheritable when they need to
be used as standard input/output/error handles for a newly spawned
process. The problem with that, of course, is that the "inheritable" flag
is global and therefore can wreak havoc with highly multi-threaded
applications: other spawned processes will *also* inherit those file
handles, despite having *other* input/output/error handles, and never
close the former handles because they do not know about them.

Let's introduce a set of environment variables (GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN and
friends) that point to files, or even better, named pipes and that are
used by the spawned Git process. This helps work around above-mentioned
issue: those named pipes will be opened in a non-inheritable way upon
startup, and no handles are passed around.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 22:58:20 +01:00
Johannes Schindelin
0ec560bd4e Merge branch 'mingw-isatty-fixup-v3'
This is an evil merge: it changes more than the merged commits, as the
merged branch replaces part of the MSVC patches.

This mess will need to be cleaned up in the next merging rebase, by
moving the mingw-isatty-fixup patches in front of the MSVC patches.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2017-01-10 22:53:52 +01:00