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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>
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