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From: fd0479ab55 (http: fix emptyAuth=auto for Negotiate/SPNEGO (git-for-windows#6170), 2026-04-14) (cf578472bd..fd0479ab55)

FAILED: 6c02c9d (tests: use the correct path separator with BusyBox, 2018-11-19)

Unexpected AI decision: ''. Full output:

● Find conflict markers (shell)
  │ cd "/home/runner/work/git-for-windows-automation/git-for-windows-automation/git/rebase-worktree-
  │ seen" && grep -n '<<<<<<<\|=======\|>>>>>>>' t/test-lib.sh
  └ 4 lines...

● View REBASE_HEAD commit (shell)
  │ cd "/home/runner/work/git-for-windows-automation/git-for-windows-automation/git/rebase-worktree-
  │ seen" && git show --stat REBASE_HEAD && echo "---COMMIT MSG---" && git log -1 --format="%H %s"
  │ REBASE_HEAD
  └ 45 lines...

● Check if patch is upstreamed (shell)
  │ cd "/home/runner/work/git-for-windows-automation/git-for-windows-automation/git/rebase-worktree-
  │ seen" && git range-diff REBASE_HEAD^! REBASE_HEAD.. 2>&1 | head -30
  └ 31 lines...

The range-diff shows `<` meaning the patch is NOT upstreamed. Let me examine the conflict and resolve it.

● Read test-lib.sh
  │ ~/work/git-for-windows-automation/git-for-windows-automation/git/rebase-worktree-seen/t/test-lib
  │ .sh
  └ L1:60 (60 lines read)

● View patch for test-lib.sh (shell)
  │ cd "/home/runner/work/git-for-windows-automation/git-for-windows-automation/git/rebase-worktree-
  │ seen" && git show REBASE_HEAD -- t/test-lib.sh | head -80
  └ 78 lines...

The conflict is straightforward: HEAD added `set -e` and REBASE_HEAD added the `PATH_SEP` block — both at the same location. They're independent; both should be kept.

● Edit test-lib.sh +1 -3
  └ ~/work/git-for-windows-automation/git-for-windows-automation/git/rebase-worktree-seen/t/test-lib
    .sh

● Verify no markers remain and stage (shell)
  │ cd "/home/runner/work/git-for-windows-automation/git-for-windows-automation/git/rebase-worktree-
  │ seen" && grep -n '<<<<<<<\|=======\|>>>>>>>' t/test-lib.sh | head -5 && git add t/test-lib.sh
  └ 1 line...

No conflict markers remain, file staged.

continue -- kept both HEAD's `set -e` and REBASE_HEAD's `PATH_SEP` block as independent additions


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SRabbelier and others added 30 commits April 14, 2026 13:18
This happens only when the corresponding commits are not exported in
the current fast-export run. This can happen either when the relevant
commit is already marked, or when the commit is explicitly marked
as UNINTERESTING with a negative ref by another argument.

This breaks fast-export basec remote helpers.

Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
In some implementations, `regexec_buf()` assumes that it is fed lines;
Without `REG_NOTEOL` it thinks the end of the buffer is the end of a
line. Which makes sense, but trips up this case because we are not
feeding lines, but rather a whole buffer. So the final newline is not
the start of an empty line, but the true end of the buffer.

This causes an interesting bug:

  $ echo content >file.txt
  $ git grep --no-index -n '^$' file.txt
  file.txt:2:

This bug is fixed by making the end of the buffer consistently the end
of the final line.

The patch was applied from
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250113062601.GD767856@coredump.intra.peff.net/

Reported-by: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When a Unix socket is initialized, the current directory's path is
stored so that the cleanup code can `chdir()` back to where it was
before exit.

If the path that needs to be stored exceeds the default size of the
`sun_path` attribute of `struct sockaddr_un` (which is defined as a
108-sized byte array on Linux), a larger buffer needs to be allocated so
that it can hold the path, and it is the responsibility of the
`unix_sockaddr_cleanup()` function to release that allocated memory.

In Git's CI, this stack allocation is not necessary because the code is
checked out to `/home/runner/work/git/git`. Concatenate the path
`t/trash directory.t0301-credential-cache/.cache/git/credential/socket`
and a terminating NUL, and you end up with 96 bytes, 12 shy of the
default `sun_path` size.

However, I use worktrees with slightly longer paths:
`/home/me/projects/git/yes/i/nest/worktrees/to/organize/them/` is more
in line with what I have. When I recently tried to locally reproduce a
failure of the `linux-leaks` CI job, this t0301 test failed (where it
had not failed in CI).

The reason: When `credential-cache` tries to reach its daemon initially
by calling `unix_sockaddr_init()`, it is expected that the daemon cannot
be reached (the idea is to spin up the daemon in that case and try
again). However, when this first call to `unix_sockaddr_init()` fails,
the code returns early from the `unix_stream_connect()` function
_without_ giving the cleanup code a chance to run, skipping the
deallocation of above-mentioned path.

The fix is easy: do not return early but instead go directly to the
cleanup code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
[PT: ensure we add an additional element to the argv array]

Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
These fixes have been sent to the Git mailing list but have not been
picked up by the Git project yet.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When asking the mingw-w64 variant of GCC to compile C11 code, it seems
to link implicitly to libwinpthread, which does implement a pthread
emulation (that is more complete than Git's).

In preparation for vendoring in mimalloc (which requires C11 support),
let's keep preferring Git's own pthread emulation.

To avoid linker errors where it thinks that the `pthread_self` and the
`pthread_create` symbols are defined twice, let's give our version a
`win32_` prefix, just like we already do for `pthread_join()`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On LLP64 systems, such as Windows, the size of `long`, `int`, etc. is
only 32 bits (for backward compatibility). Git's use of `unsigned long`
for file memory sizes in many places, rather than size_t, limits the
handling of large files on LLP64 systems (commonly given as `>4GB`).

Provide a minimum test for handling a >4GB file. The `hash-object`
command, with the  `--literally` and without `-w` option avoids
writing the object, either loose or packed. This avoids the code paths
hitting the `bigFileThreshold` config test code, the zlib code, and the
pack code.

Subsequent patches will walk the test's call chain, converting types to
`size_t` (which is larger in LLP64 data models) where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We are about to vendor in `mimalloc`'s source code which we will want to
include `compat/posix.h` after defining that constant.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Co-authored-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Bearman <ianb@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Continue walking the code path for the >4GB `hash-object --literally`
test. The `hash_object_file_literally()` function internally uses both
`hash_object_file()` and `write_object_file_prepare()`. Both function
signatures use `unsigned long` rather than `size_t` for the mem buffer
sizes. Use `size_t` instead, for LLP64 compatibility.

While at it, convert those function's object's header buffer length to
`size_t` for consistency. The value is already upcast to `uintmax_t` for
print format compatibility.

Note: The hash-object test still does not pass. A subsequent commit
continues to walk the call tree's lower level hash functions to identify
further fixes.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Update to newer mimalloc versions like this:

  update_mimalloc ()
  {
      test $# = 1 || {
          echo "Need a mimalloc version" 1>&2;
          return 1
      };
      for oneline in 'mimalloc: adjust for building inside Git' 'Import the source code of mimalloc';
      do
          git revert -n HEAD^{/^"$oneline"} && git checkout HEAD -- Makefile && git commit -sm "Temporarily revert \"$oneline\"" -m 'In preparation for upgrading to a newer mimalloc version.' || return 1;
      done;
      for file in $(git show --format='%n' --name-only --diff-filter=A HEAD^{/^"Import the source code of mimalloc "}) compat/mimalloc/arena-abandon.c compat/mimalloc/free.c compat/mimalloc/libc.c compat/mimalloc/prim/prim.c compat/mimalloc/mimalloc-stats.h;
      do
          file2=${file#compat/mimalloc/};
          case "$file2" in
              segment-cache.c)
                  : no longer needed;
                  continue
              ;;
              bitmap.h | *.c)
                  file2=src/$file2
              ;;
              *.h)
                  file2=include/$file2
              ;;
          esac;
          mkdir -p "${file%/*}" && git -C /usr/src/mimalloc/ show "$1":$file2 > "$file" && git add "$file" || {
              echo "Failed: $file2 -> $file" 1>&2;
              return 1
          };
      done;
      conv_sed='sed -n "/^ *eval/d;/      /p"' && git commit -sm "Import the source code of mimalloc $1" -m "Update to newer mimalloc versions like this:" -m "$(set | sed -n '/^update_mimalloc *() *$/,/^}/{s/^./  &/;p}')" -m '  update_mimalloc $MIMALLOC_VERSION' -m 'For convenience, you can set `MIMALLOC_VERSION` and then run:' -m '  eval "$(git show -s <this-commit> | '"$conv_sed"')"' || return 1;
      git cherry-pick HEAD^{/^'mimalloc: adjust for building inside Git'} || return 1
  }

  update_mimalloc $MIMALLOC_VERSION

For convenience, you can set `MIMALLOC_VERSION` and then run:

  eval "$(git show -s <this-commit> | sed -n "/^ *eval/d;/      /p")"

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
In this context, a "feature" is a dependency combined with its own
dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Ian Bearman <ianb@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Correct some wording and inform users regarding the Visual Studio
changes (from V16.6) to the default generator.

Subsequent commits ensure that Git for Windows can be directly
opened in modern Visual Studio without needing special configuration
of the CMakeLists settings.

It appeares that internally Visual Studio creates it's own version of the
.sln file (etc.) for extension tools that expect them.

The large number of references below document the shifting of Visual Studio
default and CMake setting options.

refs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/search/?scope=C%2B%2B&view=msvc-150&terms=Ninja

1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/linux/cmake-linux-configure?view=msvc-160
(note the linux bit)
 "In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 or later ***, Ninja is the default
generator for configurations targeting a remote system or WSL. For more
information, see this post on the C++ Team Blog
[https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/linux-development-with-visual-studio-first-class-support-for-gdbserver-improved-build-times-with-ninja-and-updates-to-the-connection-manager/].

For more information about these settings, see CMakeSettings.json reference
[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmakesettings-reference?view=msvc-160]."

2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-presets-vs?view=msvc-160
"CMake supports two files that allow users to specify common configure,
build, and test options and share them with others: CMakePresets.json
and CMakeUserPresets.json."

" Both files are supported in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10 or later.
***"
3. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/linux-development-with-visual-studio-first-class-support-for-gdbserver-improved-build-times-with-ninja-and-updates-to-the-connection-manager/
" Ninja has been the default generator (underlying build system) for
CMake configurations targeting Windows for some time***, but in Visual
Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 3*** we added support for Ninja on Linux."

4. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmakesettings-reference?view=msvc-160
" `generator`: specifies CMake generator to use for this configuration.
May be one of:

    Visual Studio 2019 only:
        Visual Studio 16 2019
        Visual Studio 16 2019 Win64
        Visual Studio 16 2019 ARM

    Visual Studio 2017 and later:
        Visual Studio 15 2017
        Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64
        Visual Studio 15 2017 ARM
        Visual Studio 14 2015
        Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64
        Visual Studio 14 2015 ARM
        Unix Makefiles
        Ninja

Because Ninja is designed for fast build speeds instead of flexibility
and function, it is set as the default. However, some CMake projects may
be unable to correctly build using Ninja. If this occurs, you can
instruct CMake to generate Visual Studio projects instead.

To specify a Visual Studio generator in Visual Studio 2017, open the
settings editor from the main menu by choosing CMake | Change CMake
Settings. Delete "Ninja" and type "V". This activates IntelliSense,
which enables you to choose the generator you want."

"To specify a Visual Studio generator in Visual Studio 2019, right-click
on the CMakeLists.txt file in Solution Explorer and choose CMake
Settings for project > Show Advanced Settings > CMake Generator.

When the active configuration specifies a Visual Studio generator, by
default MSBuild.exe is invoked with` -m -v:minimal` arguments."

5. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-presets-vs?view=msvc-160#enable-cmakepresetsjson-integration-in-visual-studio-2019
"Enable CMakePresets.json integration in Visual Studio 2019

CMakePresets.json integration isn't enabled by default in Visual Studio
2019. You can enable it for all CMake projects in Tools > Options >
CMake > General: (tick a box)" ... see more.

6. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmakesettings-reference?view=msvc-140
(whichever v140 is..)
"CMake projects are supported in Visual Studio 2017 and later."

7. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/overview/what-s-new-for-cpp-2017?view=msvc-150
"Support added for the CMake Ninja generator."

8. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/overview/what-s-new-for-cpp-2017?view=msvc-150#cmake-support-via-open-folder
"CMake support via Open Folder
Visual Studio 2017 introduces support for using CMake projects without
converting to MSBuild project files (.vcxproj). For more information,
see CMake projects in Visual
Studio[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-projects-in-visual-studio?view=msvc-150].
Opening CMake projects with Open Folder automatically configures the
environment for C++ editing, building, and debugging." ... +more!

9. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-presets-vs?view=msvc-160#supported-cmake-and-cmakepresetsjson-versions
"Visual Studio reads and evaluates CMakePresets.json and
CMakeUserPresets.json itself and doesn't invoke CMake directly with the
--preset option. So, CMake version 3.20 or later isn't strictly required
when you're building with CMakePresets.json inside Visual Studio. We
recommend using CMake version 3.14 or later."

10. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-presets-vs?view=msvc-160#enable-cmakepresetsjson-integration-in-visual-studio-2019
"If you don't want to enable CMakePresets.json integration for all CMake
projects, you can enable CMakePresets.json integration for a single
CMake project by adding a CMakePresets.json file to the root of the open
folder. You must close and reopen the folder in Visual Studio to
activate the integration.

11. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-presets-vs?view=msvc-160#default-configure-presets
***(doesn't actually say which version..)
"Default Configure Presets
If no CMakePresets.json or CMakeUserPresets.json file exists, or if
CMakePresets.json or CMakeUserPresets.json is invalid, Visual Studio
will fall back*** on the following default Configure Presets:

Windows example
JSON
{
  "name": "windows-default",
  "displayName": "Windows x64 Debug",
  "description": "Sets Ninja generator, compilers, x64 architecture,
build and install directory, debug build type",
  "generator": "Ninja",
  "binaryDir": "${sourceDir}/out/build/${presetName}",
  "architecture": {
    "value": "x64",
    "strategy": "external"
  },
  "cacheVariables": {
    "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE": "Debug",
    "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX": "${sourceDir}/out/install/${presetName}"
  },
  "vendor": {
    "microsoft.com/VisualStudioSettings/CMake/1.0": {
      "hostOS": [ "Windows" ]
    }
  }
},
"

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Continue walking the code path for the >4GB `hash-object --literally`
test to the hash algorithm step for LLP64 systems.

This patch lets the SHA1DC code use `size_t`, making it compatible with
LLP64 data models (as used e.g. by Windows).

The interested reader of this patch will note that we adjust the
signature of the `git_SHA1DCUpdate()` function without updating _any_
call site. This certainly puzzled at least one reviewer already, so here
is an explanation:

This function is never called directly, but always via the macro
`platform_SHA1_Update`, which is usually called via the macro
`git_SHA1_Update`. However, we never call `git_SHA1_Update()` directly
in `struct git_hash_algo`. Instead, we call `git_hash_sha1_update()`,
which is defined thusly:

    static void git_hash_sha1_update(git_hash_ctx *ctx,
                                     const void *data, size_t len)
    {
        git_SHA1_Update(&ctx->sha1, data, len);
    }

i.e. it contains an implicit downcast from `size_t` to `unsigned long`
(before this here patch). With this patch, there is no downcast anymore.

With this patch, finally, the t1007-hash-object.sh "files over 4GB hash
literally" test case is fixed.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We want to compile mimalloc's source code as part of Git, rather than
requiring the code to be built as an external library: mimalloc uses a
CMake-based build, which is not necessarily easy to integrate into the
flavors of Git for Windows (which will be the main benefitting port).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
NTFS junctions are somewhat similar in spirit to Unix bind mounts: they
point to a different directory and are resolved by the filesystem
driver. As such, they appear to `lstat()` as if they are directories,
not as if they are symbolic links.

_Any_ user can create junctions, while symbolic links can only be
created by non-administrators in Developer Mode on Windows 10. Hence
NTFS junctions are much more common "in the wild" than NTFS symbolic
links.

It was reported in git-for-windows#2481
that adding files via an absolute path that traverses an NTFS junction:
since 1e64d18 (mingw: do resolve symlinks in `getcwd()`), we resolve not
only symbolic links but also NTFS junctions when determining the
absolute path of the current directory. The same is not true for `git
add <file>`, where symbolic links are resolved in `<file>`, but not NTFS
junctions.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The CMakeSettings.json file is tool generated. Developers may track it
should they provide additional settings.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Just like the `hash-object --literally` code path, the `--stdin` code
path also needs to use `size_t` instead of `unsigned long` to represent
memory sizes, otherwise it would cause problems on platforms using the
LLP64 data model (such as Windows).

To limit the scope of the test case, the object is explicitly not
written to the object store, nor are any filters applied.

The `big` file from the previous test case is reused to save setup time;
To avoid relying on that side effect, it is generated if it does not
exist (e.g. when running via `sh t1007-*.sh --long --run=1,41`).

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
It seems to be not exactly rare on Windows to install NTFS junction
points (the equivalent of "bind mounts" on Linux/Unix) in worktrees,
e.g. to map some development tools into a subdirectory.

In such a scenario, it is pretty horrible if `git clean -dfx` traverses
into the mapped directory and starts to "clean up".

Let's just not do that. Let's make sure before we traverse into a
directory that it is not a mount point (or junction).

This addresses git-for-windows#607

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
By defining `USE_MIMALLOC`, Git can now be compiled with that
nicely-fast and small allocator.

Note that we have to disable a couple `DEVELOPER` options to build
mimalloc's source code, as it makes heavy use of declarations after
statements, among other things that disagree with Git's conventions.

We even have to silence some GCC warnings in non-DEVELOPER mode. For
example, the `-Wno-array-bounds` flag is needed because in `-O2` builds,
trying to call `NtCurrentTeb()` (which `_mi_thread_id()` does on
Windows) causes the bogus warning about a system header, likely related
to https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mailman/message/37674519/ and to
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99578:

C:/git-sdk-64-minimal/mingw64/include/psdk_inc/intrin-impl.h:838:1:
        error: array subscript 0 is outside array bounds of 'long long unsigned int[0]' [-Werror=array-bounds]
  838 | __buildreadseg(__readgsqword, unsigned __int64, "gs", "q")
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Also: The `mimalloc` library uses C11-style atomics, therefore we must
require that standard when compiling with GCC if we want to use
`mimalloc` (instead of requiring "only" C99). This is what we do in the
CMake definition already, therefore this commit does not need to touch
`contrib/buildsystems/`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Some platforms (e.g. Windows) provide API functions to resolve paths
much quicker. Let's offer a way to short-cut `strbuf_realpath()` on
those platforms.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
When we commit the template directory as part of `make vcxproj`, the
`branches/` directory is not actually commited, as it is empty.

Two tests were not prepared for that situation.

This developer tried to get rid of the support for `.git/branches/` a
long time ago, but that effort did not bear fruit, so the best we can do
is work around in these here tests.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The vcpkg_install batch file depends on the availability of a
working Git on the CMD path. This may not be present if the user
has selected the 'bash only' option during Git-for-Windows install.

Detect and tell the user about their lack of a working Git in the CMD
window.

Fixes git-for-windows#2348.
A separate PR git-for-windows/build-extra#258
now highlights the recommended path setting during install.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
There are no Windows/ARM64 agents in GitHub Actions yet, therefore we
just skip adjusting the `vs-test` job for now.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Ameling <dennis@dennisameling.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The intention of this change is to align with how the top-level git
`Makefile` defines its own test target (which also internally calls
`$(MAKE) -C t/ all`). This change also ensures the consistency of
`make -C contrib/subtree test` with other testing in CI executions
(which rely on `$DEFAULT_TEST_TARGET` being defined as `prove`).

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
In Git-for-Windows, work on using ARM64 has progressed. The
commit 2d94b77 (cmake: allow building for Windows/ARM64, 2020-12-04)
failed to notice that /compat/vcbuild/vcpkg_install.bat will default to
using the "x64-windows" architecture for the vcpkg installation if not set,
but CMake is not told of this default. Commit 635b6d9 (vcbuild: install
ARM64 dependencies when building ARM64 binaries, 2020-01-31) later updated
vcpkg_install.bat to accept an arch (%1) parameter, but retained the default.

This default is neccessary for the use case where the project directory is
opened directly in Visual Studio, which will find and build a CMakeLists.txt
file without any parameters, thus expecting use of the default setting.

Also Visual studio will generate internal .sln solution and .vcxproj project
files needed for some extension tools. Inform users of the additional
.sln/.vcxproj generation.

** How to test:
 rm -rf '.vs' # remove old visual studio settings
 rm -rf 'compat/vcbuild/vcpkg' # remove any vcpkg downloads
 rm -rf 'contrib/buildsystems/out' # remove builds & CMake artifacts
 with a fresh Visual Studio Community Edition, File>>Open>>(git *folder*)
   to load the project (which will take some time!).
 check for successful compilation.
The implicit .sln (etc.) are in the hidden .vs directory created by
Visual Studio.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To complement the `--stdin` and `--literally` test cases that verify
that we can hash files larger than 4GB on 64-bit platforms using the
LLP64 data model, here is a test case that exercises `hash-object`
_without_ any options.

Just as before, we use the `big` file from the previous test case if it
exists to save on setup time, otherwise generate it.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
After importing anything with fast-import, we should always let the
garbage collector do its job, since the objects are written to disk
inefficiently.

This brings down an initial import of http://selenic.com/hg from about
230 megabytes to about 14.

In the future, we may want to make this configurable on a per-remote
basis, or maybe teach fast-import about it in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
dscho and others added 29 commits April 14, 2026 13:18
When FSCache is active, we can cache the reparse tag and use it directly
to determine whether a path refers to an NTFS junction, without any
additional, costly I/O.

Note: this change only makes a difference with the next commit, which
will make use of the FSCache in `git clean` (contingent on
`core.fscache` set, of course).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Using FindFirstFileExW() requires the OS to allocate a 64K buffer for each
directory and then free it when we call FindClose().  Update fscache to call
the underlying kernel API NtQueryDirectoryFile so that we can do the buffer
management ourselves.  That allows us to allocate a single buffer for the
lifetime of the cache and reuse it for each directory.

This change improves performance of 'git status' by 18% in a repo with ~200K
files and 30k folders.

Documentation for NtQueryDirectoryFile can be found at:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/content/ntifs/nf-ntifs-ntquerydirectoryfile
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/file-attribute-constants
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/fileio/reparse-point-tags

To determine if the specified directory is a symbolic link, inspect the
FileAttributes member to see if the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT flag is
set. If so, EaSize will contain the reparse tag (this is a so far
undocumented feature, but confirmed by the NTFS developers). To
determine if the reparse point is a symbolic link (and not some other
form of reparse point), test whether the tag value equals the value
IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK.

The NtQueryDirectoryFile() call works best (and on Windows 8.1 and
earlier, it works *only*) with buffer sizes up to 64kB. Which is 32k
wide characters, so let's use that as our buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
…ter-status-gfw

status: disable and free fscache at the end of the status command
The `git clean` command needs to enumerate plenty of files and
directories, and can therefore benefit from the FSCache.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
This brings substantial wins in performance because the FSCache is now
per-thread, being merged to the primary thread only at the end, so we do
not have to lock (except while merging).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We already avoid traversing NTFS junction points in `git clean -dfx`.
With this topic branch, we do that when the FSCache is enabled, too.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
There is a problem in the way 9ac3f0e (pack-objects: fix
performance issues on packing large deltas, 2018-07-22) initializes that
mutex in the `packing_data` struct. The problem manifests in a
segmentation fault on Windows, when a mutex (AKA critical section) is
accessed without being initialized. (With pthreads, you apparently do
not really have to initialize them?)

This was reported in git-for-windows#1839.

Signed-off-by: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Windows paths are typically limited to MAX_PATH = 260 characters, even
though the underlying NTFS file system supports paths up to 32,767 chars.
This limitation is also evident in Windows Explorer, cmd.exe and many
other applications (including IDEs).

Particularly annoying is that most Windows APIs return bogus error codes
if a relative path only barely exceeds MAX_PATH in conjunction with the
current directory, e.g. ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND / ENOENT instead of the
infinitely more helpful ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE / ENAMETOOLONG.

Many Windows wide char APIs support longer than MAX_PATH paths through the
file namespace prefix ('\\?\' or '\\?\UNC\') followed by an absolute path.
Notable exceptions include functions dealing with executables and the
current directory (CreateProcess, LoadLibrary, Get/SetCurrentDirectory) as
well as the entire shell API (ShellExecute, SHGetSpecialFolderPath...).

Introduce a handle_long_path function to check the length of a specified
path properly (and fail with ENAMETOOLONG), and to optionally expand long
paths using the '\\?\' file namespace prefix. Short paths will not be
modified, so we don't need to worry about device names (NUL, CON, AUX).

Contrary to MSDN docs, the GetFullPathNameW function doesn't seem to be
limited to MAX_PATH (at least not on Win7), so we can use it to do the
heavy lifting of the conversion (translate '/' to '\', eliminate '.' and
'..', and make an absolute path).

Add long path error checking to xutftowcs_path for APIs with hard MAX_PATH
limit.

Add a new MAX_LONG_PATH constant and xutftowcs_long_path function for APIs
that support long paths.

While improved error checking is always active, long paths support must be
explicitly enabled via 'core.longpaths' option. This is to prevent end
users from shooting themselves in the foot by checking out files that Windows
Explorer, cmd/bash or their favorite IDE cannot handle.

Test suite:
Test the case is when the full pathname length of a dir is close
to 260 (MAX_PATH).
Bug report and an original reproducer by Andrey Rogozhnikov:
msysgit#122 (comment)

[jes: adjusted test number to avoid conflicts, added support for
chdir(), etc]

Thanks-to: Martin W. Kirst <maki@bitkings.de>
Thanks-to: Doug Kelly <dougk.ff7@gmail.com>
Original-test-by: Andrey Rogozhnikov <rogozhnikov.andrey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
When trying to ensure that long paths are handled correctly, we
first normalize absolute paths as we encounter them.

However, if the path is a so-called "drive-less" absolute path, i.e. if
it is relative to the current drive but _does_ start with a directory
separator, we would want the normalized path to be such a drive-less
absolute path, too.

Let's do that, being careful to still include the drive prefix when we
need to go through the `\\?\` dance (because there, the drive prefix is
absolutely required).

This fixes git-for-windows#4586.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Update wchar_t buffers to use MAX_LONG_PATH instead of MAX_PATH and call
xutftowcs_long_path() in the Win32 backend source files.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
On Windows, git repositories may have extra files which need cleaned
(e.g., a build directory) that may be arbitrarily deep. Suggest using
`core.longPaths` if such situations are encountered.

Fixes: git-for-windows#2715
Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
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>
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>
To support Git Bash running in a MinTTY, we use a dirty trick to access
the MSYS2 pseudo terminal: we execute a Bash snippet that accesses
/dev/tty.

The idea was to fall back to writing to/reading from CONOUT$/CONIN$ if
that Bash call failed because Bash was not found.

However, we should fall back even in other error conditions, because we
have not successfully read the user input. Let's make it so.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
On Windows, symbolic links actually have a type depending on the target:
it can be a file or a directory.

In certain circumstances, this poses problems, e.g. when a symbolic link
is supposed to point into a submodule that is not checked out, so there
is no way for Git to auto-detect the type.

To help with that, we will add support over the course of the next
commits to specify that symlink type via the Git attributes. This
requires an index_state, though, something that Git for Windows'
`symlink()` replacement cannot know about because the function signature
is defined by the POSIX standard and not ours to change.

So let's introduce a helper function to create symbolic links that
*does* know about the index_state.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
On Windows, symbolic links have a type: a "file symlink" must point at
a file, and a "directory symlink" must point at a directory. If the
type of symlink does not match its target, it doesn't work.

Git does not record the type of symlink in the index or in a tree. On
checkout it'll guess the type, which only works if the target exists
at the time the symlink is created. This may often not be the case,
for example when the link points at a directory inside a submodule.

By specifying `symlink=file` or `symlink=dir` the user can specify what
type of symlink Git should create, so Git doesn't have to rely on
unreliable heuristics.

Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
To verify that the symlink is resolved correctly, we use the fact that
`git.exe` is a native Win32 program, and that `git.exe config -f <path>`
therefore uses the native symlink resolution.

Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The main idea of this patch is that even if we have to look up the
absolute path of the script, if only the basename was specified as
argv[0], then we should use that basename on the command line, too, not
the absolute path.

This patch will also help with the upcoming patch where we automatically
substitute "sh ..." by "busybox sh ..." if "sh" is not in the PATH but
"busybox" is: we will do that by substituting the actual executable, but
still keep prepending "sh" to the command line.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
BusyBox comes with a ton of applets ("applet" being the identical
concept to Git's "builtins"). And similar to Git's builtins, the applets
can be called via `busybox <command>`, or the BusyBox executable can be
copied/hard-linked to the command name.

The similarities do not end here. Just as with Git's builtins, it is
problematic that BusyBox' hard-linked applets cannot easily be put into
a .zip file: .zip archives have no concept of hard-links and therefore
would store identical copies (and also extract identical copies,
"inflating" the archive unnecessarily).

To counteract that issue, MinGit already ships without hard-linked
copies of the builtins, and the plan is to do the same with BusyBox'
applets: simply ship busybox.exe as single executable, without
hard-linked applets.

To accommodate that, Git is being taught by this commit a very special
trick, exploiting the fact that it is possible to call an executable
with a command-line whose argv[0] is different from the executable's
name: when `sh` is to be spawned, and no `sh` is found in the PATH, but
busybox.exe is, use that executable (with unchanged argv).

Likewise, if any executable to be spawned is not on the PATH, but
busybox.exe is found, parse the output of `busybox.exe --help` to find
out what applets are included, and if the command matches an included
applet name, use busybox.exe to execute it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
It is convenient to assume that everybody who wants to build & test Git
has access to a working `iconv` executable (after all, we already pretty
much require libiconv).

However, that limits esoteric test scenarios such as Git for Windows',
where an end user installation has to ship with `iconv` for the sole
purpose of being testable. That payload serves no other purpose.

So let's just have a test helper (to be able to test Git, the test
helpers have to be available, after all) to act as `iconv` replacement.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
We already have a directory where we store files intended for use by
multiple test scripts. The same directory is a better home for the
test-binary-*.png files than t/.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
The idea is to allow running the test suite on MinGit with BusyBox
installed in /mingw64/bin/sh.exe. In that case, we will want to exclude
sort & find (and other Unix utilities) from being bundled.

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