Specify symlink type in .gitattributes #1897

piscisaureus · 2018-10-26T12:27:04Z

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>

dscho

This looks pretty awesome already, and I like this idea of specifying the symlink type via the Git attributes! I offered a couple of suggestions how to change this, hopefully you agree that those are improvements?

compat/mingw.c

t/t2040-checkout-symlink-attr.sh

+
+# Tell MSYS to create native symlinks. Without this flag test-lib's
+# prerequisite detection for SYMLINKS doesn't detect the right thing.
+MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict && export MSYS


t/t2040-checkout-symlink-attr.sh

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>

piscisaureus · 2018-10-29T17:18:45Z

@dscho Thanks for the review. I've updated the patch, PTAL.

t/t2040-checkout-symlink-attr.sh

Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>

dscho · 2018-10-31T14:08:25Z

Excellent. Thank you so much!

The type of symlinks to create (directory or file) [can now be specified via the `.gitattributes`](git-for-windows/git#1897). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Specify symlink type in .gitattributes

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The biggest difference in this version is that this one is focused on using the path-walk API in order to visit batches of objects based on a common path. This allows identifying, for instance, the path that is contributing the most to the on-disk size across all versions at that path. 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This affects the tag-peeling walk as well as the switch statement for adding the peeled object to the correct oid_array. ---- Derrick Stolee found this while testing the 2.47.0.vfs.0.0 pre-release against a repo with many annotated tags. This is a backport of https://github.com/microsoft/git/pull/695. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit f380030a00c15fa00d66799f875cf2c986e1fc97 Merge: 61ec9331b6 c33368b771 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Fri Oct 11 13:58:53 2024 +0200 path-walk: improve path-walk speed with many tags (#5205) In the presence of many tags, the use of oid_array_lookup() can become extremely slow. We should rely upon the SEEN bit instead. This affects the tag-peeling walk as well as the switch statement for adding the peeled object to the correct oid_array. ---- @derrickstolee found this while testing the 2.47.0.vfs.0.0 pre-release against a repo with many annotated tags. 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This finally matches the behavior on Linux and on macOS. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 1c88e62100f1cdf513bb74e9bbe7bbf018f1d6c6 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Wed May 17 17:05:09 2017 +0200 mingw: kill child processes in a gentler way The TerminateProcess() function does not actually leave the child processes any chance to perform any cleanup operations. This is bad insofar as Git itself expects its signal handlers to run. A symptom is e.g. a left-behind .lock file that would not be left behind if the same operation was run, say, on Linux. To remedy this situation, we use an obscure trick: we inject a thread into the process that needs to be killed and to let that thread run the ExitProcess() function with the desired exit status. Thanks J Wyman for describing this trick. The advantage is that the ExitProcess() function lets the atexit handlers run. While this is still different from what Git expects (i.e. running a signal handler), in practice Git sets up signal handlers and atexit handlers that call the same code to clean up after itself. In case that the gentle method to terminate the process failed, we still fall back to calling TerminateProcess(), but in that case we now also make sure that processes spawned by the spawned process are terminated; TerminateProcess() does not give the spawned process a chance to do so itself. Please note that this change only affects how Git for Windows tries to terminate processes spawned by Git's own executables. Third-party software that *calls* Git and wants to terminate it *still* need to make sure to imitate this gentle method, otherwise this patch will not have any effect. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 0a57a784e6a1b684ed4f5f6bf2b4e96e62261e3f Author: xungeng li <xungeng@gmail.com> Date: Wed Jun 7 20:26:33 2023 +0800 mingw: optionally enable wsl compability file mode bits The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) version 2 allows to use `chmod` on NTFS volumes provided that they are mounted with metadata enabled (see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/chmod-chown-wsl-improvements/ for details), for example: $ chmod 0755 /mnt/d/test/a.sh In order to facilitate better collaboration between the Windows version of Git and the WSL version of Git, we can make the Windows version of Git also support reading and writing NTFS file modes in a manner compatible with WSL. Since this slightly slows down operations where lots of files are created (such as an initial checkout), this feature is only enabled when `core.WSLCompat` is set to true. Note that you also have to set `core.fileMode=true` in repositories that have been initialized without enabling WSL compatibility. There are several ways to enable metadata loading for NTFS volumes in WSL, one of which is to modify `/etc/wsl.conf` by adding: ``` [automount] enabled = true options = "metadata,umask=027,fmask=117" ``` And reboot WSL. It can also be enabled temporarily by this incantation: $ sudo umount /mnt/c && sudo mount -t drvfs C: /mnt/c -o metadata,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=22,fmask=111 It's important to note that this modification is compatible with, but does not depend on WSL. The helper functions in this commit can operate independently and functions normally on devices where WSL is not installed or properly configured. Signed-off-by: xungeng li <xungeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit c576da7398572a272d490aea4d42f783130529dc Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Thu Jul 20 00:23:26 2017 +0200 mingw: add a Makefile target to copy test artifacts The Makefile target `install-mingit-test-artifacts` simply copies stuff and things directly into a MinGit directory, including an init.bat script to set everything up so that the tests can be run in a cmd window. Sadly, Git's test suite still relies on a Perl interpreter even if compiled with NO_PERL=YesPlease. We punt for now, installing a small script into /usr/bin/perl that hands off to an existing Perl of a Git for Windows SDK. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 68a9e1049d8af655ffdc19513654f4cb79116825 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Fri Jul 7 10:15:36 2017 +0200 t9200: skip tests when $PWD contains a colon 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> commit 895c312461bb353a31cc6b1bb8460cb65a75fe86 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Wed Jul 5 15:14:50 2017 +0200 t5813: allow for $PWD to be a Windows path 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 $PWD does not start with a slash on Windows, and simply strip the drive prefix, using an obscure feature of Windows paths: if an absolute Windows path starts with a slash, it is implicitly prefixed by the drive prefix of the current directory. As we are talking about the current directory here, anyway, that strategy works. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 9cc63e93ae3d0bd959c09c2ef321777d71d60497 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Fri Jul 21 13:24:55 2017 +0200 t5605: special-case hardlink test for BusyBox-w32 When t5605 tries to verify that files are hardlinked (or that they are not), it uses the `-links` option of the `find` utility. BusyBox' implementation does not support that option, and BusyBox-w32's lstat() does not even report the number of hard links correctly (for performance reasons). So let's just switch to a different method that actually works on Windows. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 40c1fdd50bc71a91773792a86a16034e2f880bd2 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Fri Jul 21 12:48:33 2017 +0200 t5532: workaround for BusyBox on Windows While it may seem super convenient to some old Unix hands to simpy require Perl to be available when running the test suite, this is a major hassle on Windows, where we want to verify that Perl is not, actually, required in a NO_PERL build. As a super ugly workaround, we "install" a script into /usr/bin/perl reading like this: #!/bin/sh # We'd much rather avoid requiring Perl altogether when testing # an installed Git. Oh well, that's why we cannot have nice # things. exec c:/git-sdk-64/usr/bin/perl.exe "$@" 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> commit cc77bda048f544e7469f7b39ea584431faef7475 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Sat Aug 5 21:36:01 2017 +0200 t5003: use binary file from t/lib-diff/ 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> commit e31674004b7bbc4205ab017bdfa0912d8500612b Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Wed Jul 19 17:07:56 2017 +0200 test-lib: add BUSYBOX prerequisite When running with BusyBox, we will want to avoid calling executables on the PATH that are implemented in BusyBox itself. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit ee93b74edbb7baafc3d937a29e70b69c6ea54056 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Fri Jun 30 22:32:33 2017 +0200 tests (mingw): remove Bash-specific pwd option The -W option is only understood by MSYS2 Bash's pwd command. We already make sure to override `pwd` by `builtin pwd -W` for MINGW, so let's not double the effort here. This will also help when switching the shell to another one (such as BusyBox' ash) whose pwd does *not* understand the -W option. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit c242e5bae9f7ba61d0c5a40a94a85240f925be23 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Fri Jun 30 00:35:40 2017 +0200 mingw: only use Bash-ism `builtin pwd -W` when available Traditionally, Git for Windows' SDK uses Bash as its default shell. However, other Unix shells are available, too. Most notably, the Win32 port of BusyBox comes with `ash` whose `pwd` command already prints Windows paths as Git for Windows wants them, while there is not even a `builtin` command. Therefore, let's be careful not to override `pwd` unless we know that the `builtin` command is available. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 416f9924f5b2d9dc491b1e18d3df868136c6bafd Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Mon Nov 19 20:34:13 2018 +0100 tests: use the correct path separator with BusyBox BusyBox-w32 is a true Win32 application, i.e. it does not come with a POSIX emulation layer. That also means that it does *not* use the Unix convention of separating the entries in the PATH variable using colons, but semicolons. However, there are also BusyBox ports to Windows which use a POSIX emulation layer such as Cygwin's or MSYS2's runtime, i.e. using colons as PATH separators. As a tell-tale, let's use the presence of semicolons in the PATH variable: on Unix, it is highly unlikely that it contains semicolons, and on Windows (without POSIX emulation), it is virtually guaranteed, as everybody should have both $SYSTEMROOT and $SYSTEMROOT/system32 in their PATH. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit ece253d9dab1d398b9a897caf0324dcd64c0a662 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Tue Jul 18 01:15:40 2017 +0200 tests: only override sort & find if there are usable ones in /usr/bin/ 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> commit 87fcc0611ca22bbad574c939ab32f955fb0e6507 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Sat Aug 5 20:28:37 2017 +0200 tests: move test PNGs into t/lib-diff/ 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> commit 9679df2f5509f8b988b79812a1712ecd2c531916 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Thu Oct 11 23:55:44 2018 +0200 gitattributes: mark .png files as binary Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 271dace1e6bc34defdda72628732733cbd82d888 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Thu Jul 20 22:25:21 2017 +0200 tests(mingw): if `iconv` is unavailable, use `test-helper --iconv` Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 61271ae6f4a22d6b4bdee5f2cc5359c4dbc37e6e Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Thu Jul 20 22:18:56 2017 +0200 test-tool: learn to act as a drop-in replacement for `iconv` 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> commit fb11e63d6d3430e62a8fc2372736034a8af929ed Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Sat Aug 5 22:23:36 2017 +0200 test-lib: avoid unnecessary Perl invocation It is a bit strange, and even undesirable, to require Perl just to run the test suite even when NO_PERL was set. This patch does not fix this problem by any stretch of imagination. However, it fixes *the* Perl invocation that *every single* test script has to run. While at it, it makes the source code also more grep'able, as the code that unsets some, but not all, GIT_* environment variables just became a *lot* more explicit. And all that while still reducing the total number of lines. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 69165a9a4807e855b634f96e573ba8f120fc6ee4 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Thu Jul 20 20:41:29 2017 +0200 mingw: when path_lookup() failed, try BusyBox 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> commit 3feb8f7dfb06fb497fcc8472497b05a04c1fe209 Author: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com> Date: Fri Oct 26 23:42:09 2018 +0200 Win32: symlink: add test for `symlink` attribute 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> commit f93344df80b4572059b2a73de44512ee4bfcba84 Author: David Lomas <dl3@pale-eds.co.uk> Date: Fri Jul 28 15:20:43 2023 +0100 mingw: work around rename() failing on a read-only file At least on _some_ APFS network shares, Git fails to rename the object files because they are marked as read-only, because that has the effect of setting the uchg flag on APFS, which then means the file can't be renamed or deleted. To work around that, when a rename failed, and the read-only flag is set, try to turn it off and on again. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/4482 Signed-off-by: David Lomas <dl3@pale-eds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> commit 426566b1e42954be10d43b8367342cffe03f718e Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Mon Apr 23 23:20:00 2018 +0200 mingw: Windows Docker volumes are *not* symbolic links ... even if they may look like them. As looking up the target of the "symbolic link" (just to see whether it starts with `/ContainerMappedDirectories/`) is pretty expensive, we do it when we can be *really* sure that there is a possibility that this might be the case. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr> commit db57f75bc17c4fad6ae9e345e321ac8ffff6ef3e Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Thu Jul 20 22:45:01 2017 +0200 mingw: explicitly specify with which cmd to prefix the cmdline 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> commit 2251b4fce26326ae9c0f163a7f32b00d226b801e Author: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com> Date: Fri Oct 26 11:51:51 2018 +0200 mingw: allow to specify the symlink type in .gitattributes 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> commit 3dbd00ff85659be1f0cc300fda9b1caae4b39e1f Author: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr> Date: Mon Apr 23 22:35:26 2018 +0200 mingw: move the file_attr_to_st_mode() function definition In preparation for making this function a bit more complicated (to allow for special-casing the `ContainerMappedDirectories` in Windows containers, which look like a symbolic link, but are not), let's move it out of the header. Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 2a564d1c88b7bcf970b41afe94997a3ecb11b225 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Mon Feb 11 14:19:18 2019 +0100 Introduce helper to create symlinks that knows about index_state 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> commit 7c48a30c9c1a82f25137192c1a3ad23ce2df45f4 Author: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr> Date: Mon Apr 23 22:31:42 2018 +0200 mingw: when running in a Windows container, try to rename() harder It is a known issue that a rename() can fail with an "Access denied" error at times, when copying followed by deleting the original file works. Let's just fall back to that behavior. Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 954733566ebe8baf18f0f64fc56b27094e8d8273 Author: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com> Date: Fri Oct 26 11:13:45 2018 +0200 Win32: symlink: move phantom symlink creation to a separate function Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com> commit bd2c03e21439ab4399fabd3dd0735bed03393e0a Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Thu Jun 4 23:16:07 2020 +0200 mingw: special-case index entries for symlinks with buggy size In https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/2637, we fixed a bug where symbolic links' target path sizes were recorded incorrectly in the index. The downside of this fix was that every user with tracked symbolic links in their checkouts would see them as modified in `git status`, but not in `git diff`, and only a `git add <path>` (or `git add -u`) would "fix" this. Let's do better than that: we can detect that situation and simply pretend that a symbolic link with a known bad size (or a size that just happens to be that bad size, a _very_ unlikely scenario because it would overflow our buffers due to the trailing NUL byte) means that it needs to be re-checked as if we had just checked it out. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 783d2ff71119dc92a4c3c079f3cbe8cca6eb16cf Author: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr> Date: Mon Apr 23 22:30:18 2018 +0900 mingw: introduce code to detect whether we're inside a Windows container This will come in handy in the next commit. Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 048c98b04bb5a1bb785d40ba702f9847fa9d0740 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Mon Mar 2 21:54:29 2020 +0100 mingw: emulate stat() a little more faithfully When creating directories via `safe_create_leading_directories()`, we might encounter an already-existing directory which is not readable by the current user. To handle that situation, Git's code calls `stat()` to determine whether we're looking at a directory. In such a case, `CreateFile()` will fail, though, no matter what, and consequently `mingw_stat()` will fail, too. But POSIX semantics seem to still allow `stat()` to go forward. So let's call `mingw_lstat()` for the rescue if we fail to get a file handle due to denied permission in `mingw_stat()`, and fill the stat info that way. We need to be careful to not allow this to go forward in case that we're looking at a symbolic link: to resolve the link, we would still have to create a file handle, and we just found out that we cannot. Therefore, `stat()` still needs to fail with `EACCES` in that case. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2531. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit cb8f3ed7022fa1ddf2097da3db9f69ddfa968540 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Tue May 30 21:50:57 2017 +0200 mingw: try to create symlinks without elevated permissions With Windows 10 Build 14972 in Developer Mode, a new flag is supported by CreateSymbolicLink() to create symbolic links even when running outside of an elevated session (which was previously required). This new flag is called SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE and has the numeric value 0x02. Previous Windows 10 versions will not understand that flag and return an ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER, therefore we have to be careful to try passing that flag only when the build number indicates that it is supported. For more information about the new flag, see this blog post: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/ This patch is loosely based on the patch submitted by Samuel D. Leslie as https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/1184. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit cdebdc1d15e108a7b2d2671e38e60499954ec3c3 Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Sun May 24 01:48:35 2015 +0200 Win32: symlink: add support for symlinks to directories Symlinks on Windows have a flag that indicates whether the target is a file or a directory. Symlinks of wrong type simply don't work. This even affects core Win32 APIs (e.g. DeleteFile() refuses to delete directory symlinks). However, CreateFile() with FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS doesn't seem to care. Check the target type by first creating a tentative file symlink, opening it, and checking the type of the resulting handle. If it is a directory, recreate the symlink with the directory flag set. It is possible to create symlinks before the target exists (or in case of symlinks to symlinks: before the target type is known). If this happens, create a tentative file symlink and postpone the directory decision: keep a list of phantom symlinks to be processed whenever a new directory is created in mingw_mkdir(). Limitations: This algorithm may fail if a link target changes from file to directory or vice versa, or if the target directory is created in another process. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 7eb9bc36a16cbbfb90cf07d8e274de36198ed42b Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Sun May 24 01:32:03 2015 +0200 Win32: implement basic symlink() functionality (file symlinks only) Implement symlink() that always creates file symlinks. Fails with ENOSYS if symlinks are disabled or unsupported. Note: CreateSymbolicLinkW() was introduced with symlink support in Windows Vista. For compatibility with Windows XP, we need to load it dynamically and fail gracefully if it isnt's available. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> commit d039b811d62069194c5625117311e37edf825b50 Author: Bill Zissimopoulos <billziss@navimatics.com> Date: Thu May 28 16:35:57 2020 -0700 mingw: lstat: compute correct size for symlinks This commit fixes mingw_lstat by computing the proper size for symlinks according to POSIX. POSIX specifies that upon successful return from lstat: "the value of the st_size member shall be set to the length of the pathname contained in the symbolic link not including any terminating null byte". Prior to this commit the mingw_lstat function returned a fixed size of 4096. This caused problems in git repositories that were accessed by git for Cygwin or git for WSL. For example, doing `git reset --hard` using git for Windows would update the size of symlinks in the index to be 4096; at a later time git for Cygwin or git for WSL would find that symlinks have changed size during `git status`. Vice versa doing `git reset --hard` in git for Cygwin or git for WSL would update the size of symlinks in the index with the correct value, only for git for Windows to find incorrectly at a later time that the size had changed. Signed-off-by: Bill Zissimopoulos <billziss@navimatics.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit ff6e3753038838be224f2f0b38670ba9acb39df6 Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Sun May 24 01:24:41 2015 +0200 Win32: implement readlink() Implement readlink() by reading NTFS reparse points. Works for symlinks and directory junctions. If symlinks are disabled, fail with ENOSYS. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> commit 9b5c73a65f3670c13c1eabe119c0c89363ce6a0c Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Sun May 24 01:17:31 2015 +0200 Win32: mingw_chdir: change to symlink-resolved directory If symlinks are enabled, resolve all symlinks when changing directories, as required by POSIX. Note: Git's real_path() function bases its link resolution algorithm on this property of chdir(). Unfortunately, the current directory on Windows is limited to only MAX_PATH (260) characters. Therefore using symlinks and long paths in combination may be problematic. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit 1c3cf1465db872d62cb260ee9a099aa8222578b1 Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Tue May 19 22:42:48 2015 +0200 Win32: mingw_rename: support renaming symlinks MSVCRT's _wrename() cannot rename symlinks over existing files: it returns success without doing anything. Newer MSVCR*.dll versions probably do not have this problem: according to CRT sources, they just call MoveFileEx() with the MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED flag. Get rid of _wrename() and call MoveFileEx() with proper error handling. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> commit d241df32732a3e4c21b3465ac7f8905c9de12830 Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Sun May 24 01:06:10 2015 +0200 Win32: mingw_unlink: support symlinks to directories _wunlink() / DeleteFileW() refuses to delete symlinks to directories. If _wunlink() fails with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED, try _wrmdir() as well. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> commit a6f791abafd69161cbb065ce8deeae68a0728223 Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Sat May 16 00:32:03 2015 +0200 Win32: add symlink-specific error codes Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> commit b9a96819930b28bbba13267887871cbb843d4025 Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Date: Fri Feb 23 02:50:03 2018 +0100 mingw (git_terminal_prompt): do fall back to CONIN$/CONOUT$ method 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> commit d8e8d4805d6469ed3e3c9e7d4404cb42414f0caf Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Sun May 24 01:55:05 2015 +0200 Win32: change default of 'core.symlinks' to false Symlinks on Windows don't work the same way as on Unix systems. E.g. there are different types of symlinks for directories and files, creating symlinks requires administrative privileges etc. By default, disable symlink support on Windows. I.e. users explicitly have to enable it with 'git config [--system|--global] core.symlinks true'. The test suite ignores system / global config files. Allow testing *with* symlink support by checking if native symlinks are enabled in MSys2 (via 'MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict'). Reminder: This would need to be changed if / when we find a way to run the test suite in a non-MSys-based shell (e.g. dash). Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> commit 88e607cab871f5740cee61723ceadcaeadf17c4f Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Tue May 19 21:48:55 2015 +0200 Win32: factor out retry logic The retry pattern is duplicated in three places. It also seems to be too hard to use: mingw_unlink() and mingw_rmdir() duplicate the code to retry, and both of them do so incompletely. They also do not restore errno if the user answers 'no'. Introduce a retry_ask_yes_no() helper function that handles retry with small delay, asking the user, and restoring errno. mingw_unlink: include _wchmod in the retry loop (which may fail if the file is locked exclusively). mingw_rmdir: include special error handling in the retry loop. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> commit 8c63e2136907ad6472b3cbd98456735f0973d217 Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Sat May 16 01:11:37 2015 +0200 Win32: lstat(): return adequate stat.st_size for symlinks Git typically doesn't trust the stat.st_size member of symlinks (e.g. see strbuf_readlink()). However, some functions take shortcuts if st_size is 0 (e.g. diff_populate_filespec()). In mingw_lstat() and fscache_lstat(), make sure to return an adequate size. The extra overhead of opening and reading the reparse point to calculate the exact size is not necessary, as git doesn't rely on the value anyway. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit fce1ceb95c9267bec3ec05eb376ba9e792d60202 Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Tue Jan 10 23:21:56 2017 +0100 mingw: teach fscache and dirent about symlinks Move S_IFLNK detection to file_attr_to_st_mode() and reuse it in fscache. Implement DT_LNK detection in dirent.c and the fscache readdir version. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> commit d90d4afa7220a16ef2628b1449f5d91d43c7329c Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Sun May 24 00:17:56 2015 +0200 Win32: let mingw_lstat() error early upon problems with reparse points When obtaining lstat information for reparse points, we need to call FindFirstFile() in addition to GetFileInformationEx() to obtain the type of the reparse point (symlink, mount point etc.). However, currently there is no error handling whatsoever if FindFirstFile() fails. Call FindFirstFile() before modifying the stat *buf output parameter and error out if the call fails. Note: The FindFirstFile() return value includes all the data that we get from GetFileAttributesEx(), so we could replace GetFileAttributesEx() with FindFirstFile(). We don't do that because GetFileAttributesEx() is about twice as fast for single files. I.e. we only pay the extra cost of calling FindFirstFile() in the rare case that we encounter a reparse point. Note: The indentation of the remaining reparse point code will be fixed in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> commit 730279b83dea7c4fd91a6a905ca48966c5679bab Author: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de> Date: Tue May 12 00:58:39 2015 +0200 Win32: remove separate do_lstat() function With the new mingw_stat() implementation, do_lstat() is only called from mingw_lstat() (with follow == 0). Remove the extra function and the old mingw_stat()-specific (follow == 1) logic. 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