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dscho and others added 30 commits October 5, 2026 23:39
We used to have that `make vcxproj` hack, but a hack it is. In the
meantime, we have a much cleaner solution: using CMake, either
explicitly, or even more conveniently via Visual Studio's built-in CMake
support (simply open Git's top-level directory via File>Open>Folder...).

Let's let the `README` reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This adds support for a new http.sslAutoClientCert config value.

In cURL 7.77 or later the schannel backend does not automatically send
client certificates from the Windows Certificate Store anymore.

This config value is only used if http.sslBackend is set to "schannel",
and can be used to opt in to the old behavior and force cURL to send
client certificates.

This fixes git-for-windows#3292

Signed-off-by: Pascal Muller <pascalmuller@gmail.com>
Because `git subtree` (unlike most other `contrib` modules) is included as
part of the standard release of Git for Windows, its stability should be
verified as consistently as it is for the rest of git. By including the
`git subtree` tests in the CI workflow, these tests are as much of a gate to
merging and indicator of stability as the standard test suite.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Ensure key CMake option values are part of the CMake output to
facilitate user support when tool updates impact the wider CMake
actions, particularly ongoing 'improvements' in Visual Studio.

These CMake displays perform the same function as the build-options.txt
provided in the main Git for Windows. CMake is already chatty.
The setting of CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS is also reported.

Include the environment's CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS value which
may have been propogated to CMake's internal value.

Testing the CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS processing can be difficult
in the Visual Studio environment, as it may be cached in many places.
The 'environment' may include the OS, the user shell, CMake's
own environment, along with the Visual Studio presets and caches.

See previous commit for arefacts that need removing for a clean test.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
In the case of Git for Windows (say, in a Git Bash window) running in a
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) directory, the GetNamedSecurityInfoW()
call in is_path_owned_By_current_side() returns an error code other than
ERROR_SUCCESS. This is consistent behavior across this boundary.

In these cases, the owner would always be different because the WSL
owner is a different entity than the Windows user.

The change here is to suppress the error message that looks like this:

  error: failed to get owner for '//wsl.localhost/...' (1)

Before this change, this warning happens for every Git command,
regardless of whether the directory is marked with safe.directory.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
For Windows builds >= 15063 set $env:TERM to "xterm-256color" instead of
"cygwin" because they have a more capable console system that supports
this. Also set $env:COLORTERM="truecolor" if unset.

$env:TERM is initialized so that ANSI colors in color.c work, see
29a3963 (Win32: patch Windows environment on startup, 2012-01-15).

See git-for-windows#3629 regarding problems caused by always setting
$env:TERM="cygwin".

This is the same heuristic used by the Cygwin runtime.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Kitover <rkitover@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
NtQueryObject under Wine can return a success but fill out no name.
In those situations, Wine will set Buffer to NULL, and set result to
the sizeof(OBJECT_NAME_INFORMATION).

Running a command such as

echo "$(git.exe --version 2>/dev/null)"

will crash due to a NULL pointer dereference when the code attempts to
null terminate the buffer, although, weirdly, removing the subshell or
redirecting stdout to a file will not trigger the crash.

Code has been added to also check Buffer and Length to ensure the check
is as robust as possible due to the current behavior being fragile at
best, and could potentially change in the future

This code is based on the behavior of NtQueryObject under wine and
reactos.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Degawa <ccom@randomderp.com>
Atomic append on windows is only supported on local disk files, and it may
cause errors in other situations, e.g. network file system. If that is the
case, this config option should be used to turn atomic append off.

Co-Authored-By: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: 孙卓识 <sunzhuoshi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
From the documentation of said setting:

	This boolean will enable fsync() when writing object files.

	This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that
	orders data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems
	that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or
	that only journal metadata and not file contents (OS X’s HFS+,
	or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").

The most common file system on Windows (NTFS) does not guarantee that
order, therefore a sudden loss of power (or any other event causing an
unclean shutdown) would cause corrupt files (i.e. files filled with
NULs). Therefore we need to change the default.

Note that the documentation makes it sound as if this causes really bad
performance. In reality, writing loose objects is something that is done
only rarely, and only a handful of files at a time.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Whith Windows 2000, Microsoft introduced a flag to the PE header to mark executables as
"terminal server aware". Windows terminal servers provide a redirected Windows directory and
redirected registry hives when launching legacy applications without this flag set. Since we
do not use any INI files in the Windows directory and don't write to the registry, we don't
need  this additional preparation. Telling the OS that we don't need this should provide
slightly improved startup times in terminal server environments.

When building for supported Windows Versions with MSVC the /TSAWARE linker flag is
automatically set, but MinGW requires us to set the --tsaware flag manually.

This partially addresses git-for-windows#3935.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Add FileVersion, which is a required field
As not all required fields were present, none were being included
Fixes git-for-windows#4090

Signed-off-by: Kiel Hurley <kielhurley@gmail.com>
In f9b7573 (repository: free fields before overwriting them,
2017-09-05), Git was taught to release memory before overwriting it, but
357a03e (repository.c: move env-related setup code back to
environment.c, 2018-03-03) changed the code so that it would not
_always_ be overwritten.

As a consequence, the `commondir` attribute would point to
already-free()d memory.

This seems not to cause problems in core Git, but there are add-on
patches in Git for Windows where the `commondir` attribute is
subsequently used and causing invalid memory accesses e.g. in setups
containing old-style submodules (i.e. the ones with a `.git` directory
within theirs worktrees) that have `commondir` configured.

This fixes git-for-windows#4083.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Zabavnikov <zabavnikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In 436a422 (max_tree_depth: lower it for clangarm64 on Windows,
2025-04-23), I provided a work-around for a nasty issue with clangarm
builds, where the stack is exhausted before the maximal tree depth is
reached, and the resulting error cannot easily be handled by Git
(because it would require Windows-specific handling).

Turns out that this is not at all limited to ARM64. In my tests with
CLANG64 in MSYS2 on the GitHub Actions runners, the test t6700.4 failed
in the exact same way. What's worse: The limit needs to be quite a bit
lower for x86_64 than for aarch64. In aforementioned tests, the breaking
point was 1232: With 1231 it still worked as expected, with 1232 it
would fail with the `STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW` incorrectly mapped to exit
code 127. For comparison, in my tests on GitHub Actions' Windows/ARM64
runners, the breaking point was 1439 instead.

Therefore the condition needs to be adapted once more, to accommodate
(with some safety margin) both aarch64 and x86_64 in clang-based builds
on Windows, to let that test pass.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…ctory

Internally, Git expects the environment variable `HOME` to be set, and
to point to the current user's home directory.

This environment variable is not set by default on Windows, and
therefore Git tries its best to construct one if it finds `HOME` unset.

There are actually two different approaches Git tries: first, it looks
at `HOMEDRIVE`/`HOMEPATH` because this is widely used in corporate
environments with roaming profiles, and a user generally wants their
global Git settings to be in a roaming profile.

Only when `HOMEDRIVE`/`HOMEPATH` is either unset or does not point to a
valid location, Git will fall back to using `USERPROFILE` instead.

However, starting with Windows Vista, for secondary logons and services,
the environment variables `HOMEDRIVE`/`HOMEPATH` point to Windows'
system directory (usually `C:\Windows\system32`).

That is undesirable, and that location is usually write-protected anyway.

So let's verify that the `HOMEDRIVE`/`HOMEPATH` combo does not point to
Windows' system directory before using it, falling back to `USERPROFILE`
if it does.

This fixes git-for-windows#2709

Initial-Path-by: Ivan Pozdeev <vano@mail.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
headless-git is a git executable without opening a console window. It is
useful when other GUI executables want to call git. We should install it
together with git on Windows.

Signed-off-by: Yuyi Wang <Strawberry_Str@hotmail.com>
winuser.h contains the definition of RT_MANIFEST that our LLVM based
toolchain needs to understand that we want to embed
compat/win32/git.manifest as an application manifest. It currently just
embeds it as additional data that Windows doesn't understand.

This also helps our GCC based toolchain understand that we only want one
copy embedded. It currently embeds one working assembly manifest and one
nearly identical, but useless copy as additional data.

This also teaches our Visual Studio based buildsystems to pick up the
manifest file from git.rc. This means we don't have to explicitly specify
it in contrib/buildsystems/Generators/Vcxproj.pm anymore. Slightly
counter-intuitively this also means we have to explicitly tell Cmake
not to embed a default manifest.

This fixes git-for-windows#4707

Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
This will help with Git for Windows' maintenance going forward: It
allows Git for Windows to switch its primary libcurl to a variant
without the OpenSSL backend, while still loading an alternate when
setting `http.sslBackend = openssl`.

This is necessary to avoid maintenance headaches with upgrading OpenSSL:
its major version name is encoded in the shared library's file name and
hence major version updates (temporarily) break libraries that are
linked against the OpenSSL library.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In Git for Windows v2.39.0, we fixed a regression where `git.exe` would
no longer work in Windows Nano Server (frequently used in Docker
containers).

This GitHub workflow can be used to verify manually that the Git/Scalar
executables work in Nano Server.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When running Git for Windows on a remote APFS filesystem, it would
appear that the `mingw_open_append()`/`write()` combination would fail
almost exactly like on some CIFS-mounted shares as had been reported in
git-for-windows#2753, albeit with a
different `errno` value.

Let's handle that `errno` value just the same, by suggesting to set
`windows.appendAtomically=false`.

Signed-off-by: David Lomas <dl3@pale-eds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Windows 10 version 1511 (also known as Anniversary Update), according to
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-virtual-terminal-sequences
introduced native support for ANSI sequence processing. This allows
using colors from the entire 24-bit color range.

All we need to do is test whether the console's "virtual processing
support" can be enabled. If it can, we do not even need to start the
`console_thread` to handle ANSI sequences.

Or, almost all we need to do: When `console_thread()` does its work, it
uses the Unicode-aware `write_console()` function to write to the Win32
Console, which supports Git for Windows' implicit convention that all
text that is written is encoded in UTF-8. The same is not necessarily
true if native ANSI sequence processing is used, as the output is then
subject to the current code page. Let's ensure that the code page is set
to `CP_UTF8` as long as Git writes to it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
By default, the buffer type of Windows' `stdout` is unbuffered (_IONBF),
and there is no need to manually fflush `stdout`.

But some programs, such as the Windows Filtering Platform driver
provided by the security software, may change the buffer type of
`stdout` to full buffering. This nees `fflush(stdout)` to be called
manually, otherwise there will be no output to `stdout`.

Signed-off-by: MinarKotonoha <chengzhuo5@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
A long time ago, we decided to run tests in Git for Windows' SDK with
the default `winsymlinks` mode: copying instead of linking. This is
still the default mode of MSYS2 to this day.

However, this is not how most users run Git for Windows: As the majority
of Git for Windows' users seem to be on Windows 10 and newer, likely
having enabled Developer Mode (which allows creating symbolic links
without administrator privileges), they will run with symlink support
enabled.

This is the reason why it is crucial to get the fixes for CVE-2024-? to
the users, and also why it is crucial to ensure that the test suite
exercises the related test cases. This commit ensures the latter.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In order to be a better Windows citizenship, Git should
save its configuration files on AppData folder. This can
enables git configuration files be replicated between machines
using the same Microsoft account logon which would reduce the
friction of setting up Git on new systems. Therefore, if
%APPDATA%\Git\config exists, we use it; otherwise
$HOME/.config/git/config is used.

Signed-off-by: Ariel Lourenco <ariellourenco@users.noreply.github.com>
The sparse tree walk algorithm was created in d5d2e93 (revision:
implement sparse algorithm, 2019-01-16) and involves using the
mark_trees_uninteresting_sparse() method. This method takes a repository
and an oidset of tree IDs, some of which have the UNINTERESTING flag and
some of which do not.

Create a method that has an equivalent set of preconditions but uses a
"dense" walk (recursively visits all reachable trees, as long as they
have not previously been marked UNINTERESTING). This is an important
difference from mark_tree_uninteresting(), which short-circuits if the
given tree has the UNINTERESTING flag.

A use of this method will be added in a later change, with a condition
set whether the sparse or dense approach should be used.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
While this command is definitely something we _want_, chances are that
upstreaming this will require substantial changes.

We still want to be able to experiment with this before that, to focus
on what we need out of this command: To assist with diagnosing issues
with large repositories, as well as to help monitoring the growth and
the associated painpoints of such repositories.

To that end, we are about to integrate this command into
`microsoft/git`, to get the tool into the hands of users who need it
most, with the idea to iterate in close collaboration between these
users and the developers familar with Git's internals.

However, we will definitely want to avoid letting anybody have the
impression that this command, its exact inner workings, as well as its
output format, are anywhere close to stable. To make that fact utterly
clear (and thereby protect the freedom to iterate and innovate freely
before upstreaming the command), let's mark its output as experimental
in all-caps, as the first thing we do.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
`git survey` was an experimental scale-measurement tool whose
distinctive features (ref-kind filters, top-N path tables) are now
all available in `git repo structure`. With the path-level reporting
in place (commits "repo: filter the structure scope via
--ref-filter=<pattern>" and "repo: report top-N paths by count, disk,
and inflated size in structure"), there is no functionality `git
survey` provides that `git repo structure` cannot.

Replace the 764-line `git survey` implementation with a roughly
hundred-line shim that:

  * Accepts the existing `git survey` command line so callers in
    scripts continue to parse without changes.
  * Emits a deprecation warning naming the replacement command, so
    interactive users learn about the migration target.
  * Translates the survey-specific knobs into the equivalent
    `git repo structure` invocation and re-execs the canonical
    command via `execv_git_cmd()`. Per-kind ref selectors fan out
    into the corresponding `refs/heads/*`, `refs/tags/*`, etc.
    `--ref-filter` patterns; `--top=<N>` is forwarded directly;
    `--all-refs` becomes the absence of any `--ref-filter`.

Two survey options have no `git repo structure` counterpart:
`--verbose` controlled per-step trace output the new command does
not emit, and `--detached` selected the detached HEAD which
`git repo structure` does not enumerate separately. Both are
silently accepted and produce a single warning each, so old
invocations keep working while the absence of these knobs in `git
repo structure` is made visible.

Rewrite t8100 to assert the shim's contract: the deprecation
warning is printed, the output is byte-identical to a corresponding
`git repo structure` invocation, and the per-kind selector
translation produces the right `--ref-filter` pattern. The
preceding survey-specific output assertions (the multi-column
plaintext tables) no longer apply, since `git repo structure`'s
output format is now the canonical one and is covered by t1901.

The `survey.*` configuration keys (`survey.top`, `survey.progress`,
`survey.verbose`) are no longer honored by the shim. They were
mirrored by the preceding `repo.structure.top` work for the most
useful knob; users with `survey.top` set in config should migrate
to `repo.structure.top`. This is a backward-incompatible removal
documented by the deprecation notice in `git-survey.adoc`.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In 245670c (credential-cache: check for windows specific errors, 2021-09-14)
we concluded that on Windows we would always encounter ENETDOWN where we
would expect ECONNREFUSED on POSIX systems, when connecting to unix sockets.
As reported in [1], we do encounter ECONNREFUSED on Windows if the
socket file doesn't exist, but the containing directory does and ENETDOWN if
neither exists. We should handle this case like we do on non-windows systems.

[1] git-for-windows#4762 (comment)

This fixes git-for-windows#5314

Helped-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The reftable library goes out of its way to use its own set of allocator
functions that can be configured using `reftable_set_alloc()`. However,
Git does not configure this.

That is not typically a problem, except when Git uses a custom allocator
via some definitions in `git-compat-util.h`, as is the case in Git for
Windows (which switched away from the long-unmaintained nedmalloc to
mimalloc).

Then, it is quite possible that Git assigns a `strbuf` (allocated via
the custom allocator) to, say, the `refname` field of a
`reftable_log_record` in `write_transaction_table()`, and later on asks
the reftable library function `reftable_log_record_release()` to release
it, but that function was compiled without using `git-compat-util.h` and
hence calls regular `free()` (i.e. _not_ the custom allocator's own
function).

This has been a problem for a long time and it was a matter of some sort
of "luck" that 1) reftables are not commonly used on Windows, and 2)
mimalloc can often ignore gracefully when it is asked to release memory
that it has not allocated.

However, a recent update to `seen` brought this problem to the
forefront, letting t1460 fail in Git for Windows, with symptoms much in
the same way as the problem I had to address in d02c37c
(t-reftable-basics: allow for `malloc` to be `#define`d, 2025-01-08)
where exit code 127 was also produced in lieu of
`STATUS_HEAP_CORRUPTION` (C0000374) because exit codes are only 7 bits
wide.

It was not possible to figure out what change in particular caused these
new failures within a reasonable time frame, as there are too many
changes in `seen` that conflict with Git for Windows' patches, I had to
stop the investigation after spending four hours on it fruitlessly.

To verify that this patch fixes the issue, I avoided using mimalloc and
temporarily patched in a "custom allocator" that would more reliably
point out problems, like this:

  diff --git a/refs/reftable-backend.c b/refs/reftable-backend.c
  index 68f3829..9421d630b9f5 100644
  --- a/refs/reftable-backend.c
  +++ b/refs/reftable-backend.c
  @@ -353,6 +353,69 @@ static int reftable_be_fsync(int fd)
   	return fsync_component(FSYNC_COMPONENT_REFERENCE, fd);
   }

  +#define DEBUG_REFTABLE_ALLOC
  +#ifdef DEBUG_REFTABLE_ALLOC
  +#include "khash.h"
  +
  +static inline khint_t __ac_X31_hash_ptr(void *ptr)
  +{
  +	union {
  +		void *ptr;
  +		char s[sizeof(void *)];
  +	} u;
  +	size_t i;
  +	khint_t h;
  +
  +	u.ptr = ptr;
  +	h = (khint_t)*u.s;
  +	for (i = 0; i < sizeof(void *); i++)
  +		h = (h << 5) - h + (khint_t)u.s[i];
  +	return h;
  +}
  +
  +#define kh_ptr_hash_func(key) __ac_X31_hash_ptr(key)
  +#define kh_ptr_hash_equal(a, b) ((a) == (b))
  +
  +KHASH_INIT(ptr, void *, int, 0, kh_ptr_hash_func, kh_ptr_hash_equal)
  +
  +static kh_ptr_t *my_malloced;
  +
  +static void *my_malloc(size_t sz)
  +{
  +	int dummy;
  +	void *ptr = malloc(sz);
  +	if (ptr)
  +		kh_put_ptr(my_malloced, ptr, &dummy);
  +	return ptr;
  +}
  +
  +static void *my_realloc(void *ptr, size_t sz)
  +{
  +	int dummy;
  +	if (ptr) {
  +		khiter_t pos = kh_get_ptr(my_malloced, ptr);
  +		if (pos >= kh_end(my_malloced))
  +			die("Was not my_malloc()ed: %p", ptr);
  +		kh_del_ptr(my_malloced, pos);
  +	}
  +	ptr = realloc(ptr, sz);
  +	if (ptr)
  +		kh_put_ptr(my_malloced, ptr, &dummy);
  +	return ptr;
  +}
  +
  +static void my_free(void *ptr)
  +{
  +	if (ptr) {
  +		khiter_t pos = kh_get_ptr(my_malloced, ptr);
  +		if (pos >= kh_end(my_malloced))
  +			die("Was not my_malloc()ed: %p", ptr);
  +		kh_del_ptr(my_malloced, pos);
  +	}
  +	free(ptr);
  +}
  +#endif
  +
   static struct ref_store *reftable_be_init(struct repository *repo,
   					  const char *gitdir,
   					  unsigned int store_flags)
  @@ -362,6 +425,11 @@ static struct ref_store *reftable_be_init(struct repository *repo,
   	int is_worktree;
   	mode_t mask;

  +#ifdef DEBUG_REFTABLE_ALLOC
  +	my_malloced = kh_init_ptr();
  +	reftable_set_alloc(my_malloc, my_realloc, my_free);
  +#endif
  +
   	mask = umask(0);
   	umask(mask);

I briefly considered contributing this "custom allocator" patch, too,
but it is unwieldy (for example, it would not work at all when compiling
with mimalloc support) and it would only waste space (or even time, if a
compile flag was introduced and exercised as part of the CI builds).
Given that it is highly unlikely that Git will lose the new
`reftable_set_alloc()` call by mistake, I rejected that idea as simply
too wasteful.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Every once in a while, whitespace errors are introduced in Git for
Windows' rebases to newer Git versions, simply by virtue of integrating
upstream commits that do not follow upstream Git's own whitespace rule.
In Git v2.50.0-rc0, for example, 03f2915 (xdiff: disable
cleanup_records heuristic with --minimal, 2025-04-29) introduced a
trailing space.

Arguably, non-actionable alerts are worse than no alerts at all, so
let's suppress those alerts that we cannot do anything about, anyway.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The 2.53.0.rc0.windows release candidate had a regression where
writing to stderr from a pre-push hook would error out.

The regression was fixed in 2.53.0.rc1.windows and the test here ensures
that this stays fixed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>
dscho and others added 30 commits October 5, 2026 23:39
At some stage, t5003-archive-zip wants to add a file that is not ASCII.
To that end, it uses /bin/sh. But that file may actually not exist (it
is too easy to forget that not all the world is Unix/Linux...)! Besides,
we already have perfectly fine binary files intended for use solely by
the tests. So let's use one of them instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Git for Windows project has grown quite complex over the years,
certainly much more complex than during the first years where the
`msysgit.git` repository was abusing Git for package management purposes
and the `git/git` fork was called `4msysgit.git`.

Let's describe the status quo in a thorough way.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
While it may seem super convenient to some old Unix hands to simpy
require Perl to be available when running the test suite, this is a
major hassle on Windows, where we want to verify that Perl is not,
actually, required in a NO_PERL build.

As a super ugly workaround, we "install" a script into /usr/bin/perl
reading like this:

	#!/bin/sh

	# We'd much rather avoid requiring Perl altogether when testing
	# an installed Git. Oh well, that's why we cannot have nice
	# things.
	exec c:/git-sdk-64/usr/bin/perl.exe "$@"

The problem with that is that BusyBox assumes that the #! line in a
script refers to an executable, not to a script. So when it encounters
the line #!/usr/bin/perl in t5532's proxy-get-cmd, it barfs.

Let's help this situation by simply executing the Perl script with the
"interpreter" specified explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In this time and age, AI is everywhere. However, it's sometimes not very
easy to use. For green-field projects it works quite a bit better than
for existing legacy projects. And Git's source code is _quite_ as legacy
code as they come... 😁

Now, the only way how AI can be used efficiently with legacy code
is by providing enough information by way of prompt context for the
AI to have a chance to make any sense of the code. The structure and
the architecture is, after all, not designed for AI, but rather the
opposite: By virtue of having grown organically over two decades, there
is no design that AI coding models would readily grasp.

So here is a document that describes all kinds of aspects about this
project. The idea is to help AI by providing information that it does
not have ingrained in its weights. The idea is to provide information
that a human prompter might take for granted, but no coding model will
have been trained on specifically.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.5
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When t5605 tries to verify that files are hardlinked (or that they are
not), it uses the `-links` option of the `find` utility.

BusyBox' implementation does not support that option, and BusyBox-w32's
lstat() does not even report the number of hard links correctly (for
performance reasons).

So let's just switch to a different method that actually works on
Windows.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The Git project followed Git for Windows' lead and added their Code of
Conduct, based on the Contributor Covenant v1.4, later updated to v2.0.

We adapt it slightly to Git for Windows.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows uses MSYS2's Bash to run the test suite, which comes
with benefits but also at a heavy price: on the plus side, MSYS2's
POSIX emulation layer allows us to continue pretending that we are on a
Unix system, e.g. use Unix paths instead of Windows ones, yet this is
bought at a rather noticeable performance penalty.

There *are* some more native ports of Unix shells out there, though,
most notably BusyBox-w32's ash. These native ports do not use any POSIX
emulation layer (or at most a *very* thin one, choosing to avoid
features such as fork() that are expensive to emulate on Windows), and
they use native Windows paths (usually with forward slashes instead of
backslashes, which is perfectly legal in almost all use cases).

And here comes the problem: with a $PWD looking like, say,
C:/git-sdk-64/usr/src/git/t/trash directory.t5813-proto-disable-ssh
Git's test scripts get quite a bit confused, as their assumptions have
been shattered. Not only does this path contain a colon (oh no!), it
also does not start with a slash.

This is a problem e.g. when constructing a URL as t5813 does it:
ssh://remote$PWD. Not only is it impossible to separate the "host" from
the path with a $PWD as above, even prefixing $PWD by a slash won't
work, as /C:/git-sdk-64/... is not a valid path.

As a workaround, detect when $PWD does not start with a slash on
Windows, and simply strip the drive prefix, using an obscure feature of
Windows paths: if an absolute Windows path starts with a slash, it is
implicitly prefixed by the drive prefix of the current directory. As we
are talking about the current directory here, anyway, that strategy
works.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
These are Git for Windows' Git GUI and gitk patches. We will have to
decide at some point what to do about them, but that's a little lower
priority (as Git GUI seems to be unmaintained for the time being, and
the gitk maintainer keeps a very low profile on the Git mailing list,
too).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Getting started contributing to Git can be difficult on a Windows
machine. CONTRIBUTING.md contains a guide to getting started, including
detailed steps for setting up build tools, running tests, and
submitting patches to upstream.

[includes an example by Pratik Karki how to submit v2, v3, v4, etc.]

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
On Windows, the current working directory is pretty much guaranteed to
contain a colon. If we feed that path to CVS, it mistakes it for a
separator between host and port, though.

This has not been a problem so far because Git for Windows uses MSYS2's
Bash using a POSIX emulation layer that also pretends that the current
directory is a Unix path (at least as long as we're in a shell script).

However, that is rather limiting, as Git for Windows also explores other
ports of other Unix shells. One of those is BusyBox-w32's ash, which is
a native port (i.e. *not* using any POSIX emulation layer, and certainly
not emulating Unix paths).

So let's just detect if there is a colon in $PWD and punt in that case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Includes touch-ups by 마누엘, Philip Oakley and 孙卓识.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…ITOR"

In e3f7e01 (Revert "editor: save and reset terminal after calling
EDITOR", 2021-11-22), we reverted the commit wholesale where the
terminal state would be saved and restored before/after calling an
editor.

The reverted commit was intended to fix a problem with Windows Terminal
where simply calling `vi` would cause problems afterwards.

To fix the problem addressed by the revert, but _still_ keep the problem
with Windows Terminal fixed, let's revert the revert, with a twist: we
restrict the save/restore _specifically_ to the case where `vi` (or
`vim`) is called, and do not do the same for any other editor.

This should still catch the majority of the cases, and will bridge the
time until the original patch is re-done in a way that addresses all
concerns.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
With improvements by Clive Chan, Adric Norris, Ben Bodenmiller and
Philip Oakley.

Helped-by: Clive Chan <cc@clive.io>
Helped-by: Adric Norris <landstander668@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Ben Bodenmiller <bbodenmiller@hotmail.com>
Helped-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Forster <brendan@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The `--stdin` option was a well-established paradigm in other commands,
therefore we implemented it in `git reset` for use by Visual Studio.

Unfortunately, upstream Git decided that it is time to introduce
`--pathspec-from-file` instead.

To keep backwards-compatibility for some grace period, we therefore
reinstate the `--stdin` option on top of the `--pathspec-from-file`
option, but mark it firmly as deprecated.

Helped-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Helped-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
A fix for calling `vim` in Windows Terminal caused a regression and was
reverted. We partially un-revert this, to get the fix again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Git for Windows accepts pull requests; Core Git does not. Therefore we
need to adjust the template (because it only matches core Git's
project management style, not ours).

Also: direct Git for Windows enhancements to their contributions page,
space out the text for easy reading, and clarify that the mailing list
is plain text, not HTML.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Rather than using private IFTTT Applets that send mails to this
maintainer whenever a new version of a Git for Windows component was
released, let's use the power of GitHub workflows to make this process
publicly visible.

This workflow monitors the Atom/RSS feeds, and opens a ticket whenever a
new version was released.

Note: Bash sometimes releases multiple patched versions within a few
minutes of each other (i.e. 5.1p1 through 5.1p4, 5.0p15 and 5.0p16). The
MSYS2 runtime also has a similar system. We can address those patches as
a group, so we shouldn't get multiple issues about them.

Note further: We're not acting on newlib releases, OpenSSL alphas, Perl
release candidates or non-stable Perl releases. There's no need to open
issues about them.

Co-authored-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Reintroduce the 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor' config setting (originally added
in 0a756b2 (fsmonitor: config settings are repository-specific,
2021-03-05)) after its removal from the upstream version of FSMonitor.

Upstream, the 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor' setting was rendered obsolete by
"overloading" the 'core.fsmonitor' setting to take a boolean value. However,
several applications (e.g., 'scalar') utilize the original config setting,
so it should be preserved for a deprecation period before complete removal:

* if 'core.fsmonitor' is a boolean, the user is correctly using the new
  config syntax; do not use 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor'.
* if 'core.fsmonitor' is unspecified, use 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor'.
* if 'core.fsmonitor' is a path, override and use the builtin FSMonitor if
  'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor' is 'true'; otherwise, use the FSMonitor hook
  indicated by the path.

Additionally, for this deprecation period, advise users to switch to using
'core.fsmonitor' to specify their use of the builtin FSMonitor.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
This topic branch re-adds the deprecated --stdin/-z options to `git
reset`. Those patches were overridden by a different set of options in
the upstream Git project before we could propose `--stdin`.

We offered this in MinGit to applications that wanted a safer way to
pass lots of pathspecs to Git, and these applications will need to be
adjusted.

Instead of `--stdin`, `--pathspec-from-file=-` should be used, and
instead of `-z`, `--pathspec-file-nul`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This is the recommended way on GitHub to describe policies revolving around
security issues and about supported versions.

Helped-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Originally introduced as `core.useBuiltinFSMonitor` in Git for Windows
and developed, improved and stabilized there, the built-in FSMonitor
only made it into upstream Git (after unnecessarily long hemming and
hawing and throwing overly perfectionist style review sticks into the
spokes) as `core.fsmonitor = true`.

In Git for Windows, with this topic branch, we re-introduce the
now-obsolete config setting, with warnings suggesting to existing users
how to switch to the new config setting, with the intention to
ultimately drop the patch at some stage.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Upstream Git does not test their tags with the expensive set of tests,
so a couple of them seem quite broken for now, even so much as hanging
indefinitely.

It is outside of the responsibility of the Git for Windows project to
fix upstream's own tests for platforms other than Windows, so let's not
exercise them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…updates

Start monitoring updates of Git for Windows' component in the open
The special-casing of `NUL` in `mingw_access()` was added in
9160068 (msvc: avoid calling `access("NUL", flags)`, 2021-04-16)
because the Universal C Runtime's ("UCRT") `_waccess()` rejects `NUL` as
an invalid argument.

With the switch of GIt for Windows from the MSVCRT-based MINGW64 build
to the UCRT-based UCRT64 build in 2.56.0, any spelling other than
lowercase `nul` now reaches `_waccess()` and fails. Windows device names
are case-insensitive, and `NUL` is the canonical spelling, but even
`Nul` is allowed, so a case-insensitive comparison is needed.

Note that we cannot use `fspathcmp()` here, as we would usually do: This
function is in the code path when reading the config, and
`core.ignoreCase` would therefore not be set correctly yet e.g. when
running under `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=NUL`.

This fixes git-for-windows#6449

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Add a README.md for GitHub goodness.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…r-windows#6450)

Currently, when running `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=NUL git config --list`, it
fails with:

```
fatal: unable to access 'NUL': Invalid argument
```

The underlying reason is the different behavior of the C runtime used by
MINGW64 vs UCRT64. Let's accommodate for that.

This fixes git-for-windows#6449
This bumps `actions/setup-python from version 6 to 7. The main change is
that this is now an ECMAScript Module, which bumps the minimum
requirements for GitHub Enterprise Server setups enough to warrant a
full major version bump.

Release notes: https://github.com/actions/setup-python/releases
Commits: actions/setup-python@v6...v7

Originally-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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