A number of configuration options are not automatically detected by
configure mechanisms, including the location of Perl and Python.
There was a problem at a specific set of operating system versions
that caused getopt to have compile errors. Account for this by
providing emulation defines for those versions.
Signed-off-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The way -lcurl library gets linked has been simplified by taking
advantage of the fact that we can just ask curl-config command how.
* jk/curl-ldflags:
build: link with curl-defined linker flags
Adjusting the build process to rely more on curl-config to populate
linker flags instead of manually populating flags based off detected
features.
Originally, a configure-invoked build would check for SSL-support in the
target curl library. If enabled, NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CURL would be set and
used in the Makefile to append additional libraries to link against. As
for systems building solely with make, the defines NEEDS_IDN_WITH_CURL
and NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CURL could be set to indirectly enable respective
linker flags. Since both configure.ac and Makefile already rely on
curl-config utility to provide curl-related build information, adjusting
the respective assets to populate required linker flags using the
utility (unless explicitly configured).
Signed-off-by: James Knight <james.d.knight@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We no longer use any of MSVCRT's stat-functions, so there's no need to
stick to a CRT-compatible 'struct stat' either.
Define and use our own POSIX-2013-compatible 'struct stat' with nanosecond-
precision file times.
Note: This can cause performance issues when using Git variants with
different file time resolutions, as the timestamps are stored in the Git
index: after updating the index with a Git variant that uses
second-precision file times, a nanosecond-aware Git will think that
pretty much every single file listed in the index is out of date.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Quite some time ago, a last plea to the XP users out there who want to
see Windows XP support in Git for Windows, asking them to get engaged
and help, vanished into the depths of the universe.
We tried for a long time to play nice with the last remaining XP users
who somehow manage to build Git from source, but a recent update of
mingw-w64 (7.0.0.5233.e0c09544 -> 7.0.0.5245.edf66197) finally dropped
the last sign of XP support, and Git for Windows' SDK is no longer able
to build core Git's `master` branch as a consequence. (Git for Windows'
`master` branch already bumped the minimum Windows version to Vista a
while ago, so it is fine.)
It is time to require Windows Vista or later to build Git from source.
This, incidentally, lets us use quite a few nice new APIs.
It also means that we no longer need the inet_pton() and inet_ntop()
emulation, which is nice.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
OLD_ICONV has long been needed by FreeBSD so config.mak.uname defines
it unconditionally. However, recent versions do not need it, and its
presence results in compilation warnings. Resolve this issue by defining
OLD_ICONV only for older FreeBSD versions.
Specifically, revision r281550[1], which is part of FreeBSD 11, removed
the need for OLD_ICONV, and r282275[2] back-ported that change to 10.2.
Versions prior to 10.2 do need it.
[1] b0813ee288
[2] b709ec868a
[es: commit message; tweak version check to distinguish 10.x versions]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This helps VS Code's intellisense to figure out that we want to include
windows.h, and that we want to define the minimum target Windows version
as Windows Vista/2008R2.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers
to repack all objects into one pack by default. The command has
been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is
marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in
other packs and loose ones are repacked.
* nd/repack-keep-pack:
pack-objects: show some progress when counting kept objects
gc --auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to "repack -ad"
gc: handle a corner case in gc.bigPackThreshold
gc: add gc.bigPackThreshold config
gc: add --keep-largest-pack option
repack: add --keep-pack option
t7700: have closing quote of a test at the beginning of line
pack-objects could be a big memory hog especially on large repos,
everybody knows that. The suggestion to stick a .keep file on the
giant base pack to avoid this problem is also known for a long time.
Recent patches add an option to do just this, but it has to be either
configured or activated manually. This patch lets `git gc --auto`
activate this mode automatically when it thinks `repack -ad` will use
a lot of memory and start affecting the system due to swapping or
flushing OS cache.
gc --auto decides to do this based on an estimation of pack-objects
memory usage, which is quite accurate at least for the heap part, and
whether that fits in half of system memory (the assumption here is for
desktop environment where there are many other applications running).
This mechanism only kicks in if gc.bigBasePackThreshold is not configured.
If it is, it is assumed that the user already knows what they want.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This change also allows us to stop overriding argv[0] with the absolute
path of the executable, allowing us to preserve e.g. the case of the
executable's file name.
This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1496 partially.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Enable Git to resolve its own binary location using a variety of
OS-specific and generic methods, including:
- procfs via "/proc/self/exe" (Linux)
- _NSGetExecutablePath (Darwin)
- KERN_PROC_PATHNAME sysctl on BSDs.
- argv0, if absolute (all, including Windows).
This is used to enable RUNTIME_PREFIX support for non-Windows systems,
notably Linux and Darwin. When configured with RUNTIME_PREFIX, Git will
do a best-effort resolution of its executable path and automatically use
this as its "exec_path" for relative helper and data lookups, unless
explicitly overridden.
Small incidental formatting cleanup of "exec_cmd.c".
Signed-off-by: Dan Jacques <dnj@google.com>
Thanks-to: Robbie Iannucci <iannucci@google.com>
Thanks-to: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since commit f66450ae9 ("cygwin: Remove the Win32 l/stat() implementation",
2013-06-22), the cygwin build has not used the WIN32 API/header files.
This means that the '-isystem /usr/include/w32api' option to sparse is
no longer necessary (to allow sparse to find the WIN32 header files).
In addition, the '-Wno-one-bit-signed-bitfield' option can be removed,
since the warning suppressed by that option was only provoked by a WIN32
header file.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Keep a copy of the `packed-refs` file contents in memory for as long
as a `packed_ref_cache` object is in use:
* If the system allows it, keep the `packed-refs` file mmapped.
* If not (either because the system doesn't support `mmap()` at all,
or because a file that is currently mmapped cannot be replaced via
`rename()`), then make a copy of the file's contents in
heap-allocated space, and keep that around instead.
We base the choice of behavior on a new build-time switch,
`MMAP_PREVENTS_DELETE`. By default, this switch is set for Windows
variants.
After this commit, `MMAP_NONE` and `MMAP_TEMPORARY` are still handled
identically. But the next commit will introduce a difference.
This whole change is still pointless, because we only read the
`packed-refs` file contents immediately after instantiating the
`packed_ref_cache`. But that will soon change.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository"
ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed
locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double
slashes at the beginning.
This may need to be heavily tested before it gets unleashed to the
wild, as the change is at a fairly low-level code and would affect
not just the code to decide if the push destination is local. There
may be unexpected fallouts in the path normalization.
* tb/push-to-cygwin-unc-path:
cygwin: allow pushing to UNC paths
cygwin can use an UNC path like //server/share/repo
$ cd //server/share/dir
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ git init --bare
However, when we try to push from a local Git repository to this repo,
there is a problem: Git converts the leading "//" into a single "/".
As cygwin handles an UNC path so well, Git can support them better:
- Introduce cygwin_offset_1st_component() which keeps the leading "//",
similar to what Git for Windows does.
- Move CYGWIN out of the POSIX in the tests for path normalization in t0060
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
* ab/pcre-v2:
grep: add support for PCRE v2
grep: un-break building with PCRE >= 8.32 without --enable-jit
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.20
grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.32
grep: add support for the PCRE v1 JIT API
log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp
grep: skip pthreads overhead when using one thread
grep: don't redundantly compile throwaway patterns under threading
We often try to open a file for reading whose existence is
optional, and silently ignore errors from open/fopen; report such
errors if they are not due to missing files.
* nd/fopen-errors:
mingw_fopen: report ENOENT for invalid file names
mingw: verify that paths are not mistaken for remote nicknames
log: fix memory leak in open_next_file()
rerere.c: move error_errno() closer to the source system call
print errno when reporting a system call error
wrapper.c: make warn_on_inaccessible() static
wrapper.c: add and use fopen_or_warn()
wrapper.c: add and use warn_on_fopen_errors()
config.mak.uname: set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES for Darwin, too
config.mak.uname: set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES for Linux and FreeBSD
clone: use xfopen() instead of fopen()
use xfopen() in more places
git_fopen: fix a sparse 'not declared' warning
Amend my change earlier in this series ("grep: add support for the
PCRE v1 JIT API", 2017-04-11) to un-break the build on PCRE v1
versions later than 8.31 compiled without --enable-jit.
As explained in that change and a later compatibility change in this
series ("grep: un-break building with PCRE < 8.32", 2017-05-10) the
pcre_jit_exec() function is a faster path to execute the JIT.
Unfortunately there's no compatibility stub for that function compiled
into the library if pcre_config(PCRE_CONFIG_JIT, &ret) would return 0,
and no macro that can be used to check for it, so the only portable
option to support builds without --enable-jit is via a new
NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT=UnfortunatelyYes Makefile option[1].
Another option would be to make the JIT opt-in via
USE_LIBPCRE1_JIT=YesPlease, after all it's not a default option of
PCRE v1.
I think it makes more sense to make it opt-out since even though it's
not a default option, most packagers of PCRE seem to turn it on by
default, with the notable exception of the MinGW package.
Make the MinGW platform work by default by changing the build defaults
to turn on NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT=UnfortunatelyYes. It is the only platform
that turns on USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease by default, see commit
df5218b4c3 ("config.mak.uname: support MSys2", 2016-01-13) for that
change.
1. "How do I support pcre1 JIT on all
versions?" (https://lists.exim.org/lurker/thread/20170601.103148.10253788.en.html)
2. https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/blob/master/mingw-w64-pcre/PKGBUILD
(referenced from "Re: PCRE v2 compile error, was Re: What's cooking
in git.git (May 2017, #01; Mon, 1)";
<alpine.DEB.2.20.1705021756530.3480@virtualbox>)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This variable is added [1] with the assumption that on a sane system,
fopen(<dir>, "r") should return NULL. Linux and FreeBSD do not meet this
expectation while at least Windows and AIX do. Let's make sure they
behave the same way.
I only tested one version on Linux (4.7.0 with glibc 2.22) and
FreeBSD (11.0) but since GNU/kFreeBSD is fbsd kernel with gnu userspace,
I'm pretty sure it shares the same problem.
[1] cba22528fa (Add compat/fopen.c which returns NULL on attempt to open
directory - 2008-02-08)
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Set the NO_REGEX=NeedsStartEnd Makefile flag by default on AIX.
Since commit 2f8952250a ("regex: add regexec_buf() that can work on a
non NUL-terminated string", 2016-09-21) git has errored out at
compile-time if the regular expression library doesn't support
REG_STARTEND.
While looking through Google search results for the use of NO_REGEX I
found a Chef recipe that set this on AIX[1], looking through the
documentation for the latest version of AIX (7.2, released October
2015) shows that its regexec() doesn't have REG_STARTEND.
1. https://github.com/chef/omnibus-software/commit/e247e36761#diff-3df898345d670979b74acc0bf71d8c47
2. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_aix_72/com.ibm.aix.basetrf2/regexec.htm
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The last call to the mkstemps() function was removed in commit 659488326
("wrapper.c: delete dead function git_mkstemps()", 22-04-2016). In order
to support platforms without mkstemps(), this functionality was provided,
along with a Makefile build variable (NO_MKSTEMPS), by the gitmkstemps()
function. Remove the dead code, along with the defunct build machinery.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use OpenSSL's SHA-1 routines rather than builtin block-sha1 routines.
This improves performance on SHA1 operations on Intel processors.
OpenSSL 1.0.2 has made considerable performance improvements and
support the Intel hardware acceleration features. See:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/improving-openssl-performancehttps://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sha-extensions
To test this I added/staged a single file in a gigantic
repository having a 450MB index file. The code in read-cache.c
verifies the header SHA as it reads the index and computes a new
header SHA as it writes out the new index. Therefore, in this test
the SHA code must process 900MB of data. Testing was done on an
Intel I7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (Intel64, Family 6, Model 60) CPU.
The block-sha1 version averaged 5.27 seconds.
The OpenSSL version averaged 4.50 seconds.
================================================================
$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/blk_sha/bin/git.exe add project.mk
real 0m5.207s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.250s
$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/blk_sha/bin/git.exe add project.mk
real 0m5.362s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.234s
$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/blk_sha/bin/git.exe add project.mk
real 0m5.300s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.250s
$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/blk_sha/bin/git.exe add project.mk
real 0m5.216s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.250s
================================================================
$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/openssl/bin/git.exe add project.mk
real 0m4.431s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.250s
$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/openssl/bin/git.exe add project.mk
real 0m4.478s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.265s
$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/openssl/bin/git.exe add project.mk
real 0m4.690s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.250s
$ echo xxx >> project.mk
$ time /e/openssl/bin/git.exe add project.mk
real 0m4.420s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.234s
================================================================
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The xdiff code hashes every line of both sides of a diff,
and then compares those hashes to find duplicates. The
overall performance depends both on how fast we can compute
the hashes, but also on how many hash collisions we see.
The idea of XDL_FAST_HASH is to speed up the hash
computation. But the generated hashes have worse collision
behavior. This means that in some cases it speeds diffs up
(running "git log -p" on git.git improves by ~8% with it),
but in others it can slow things down. One pathological case
saw over a 100x slowdown[1].
There may be a better hash function that covers both
properties, but in the meantime we are better off with the
original hash. It's slightly slower in the common case, but
it has fewer surprising pathological cases.
[1] http://public-inbox.org/git/20141222041944.GA441@peff.net/
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The build procedure learned PAGER_ENV knob that lists what default
environment variable settings to export for popular pagers. This
mechanism is used to tweak the default settings to MORE on FreeBSD.
* ew/build-time-pager-tweaks:
pager: move pager-specific setup into the build
Allowing PAGER_ENV to be set at build-time allows us to move
pager-specific knowledge out of our build. This allows us to
set a better default for FreeBSD more(1), which pretends not to
understand ANSI color escapes if the MORE environment variable
is left empty, but accepts the same variables as less(1)
Originally-from:
https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqq61piw4yf.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com/
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recent FreeBSD stopped making perl available at /usr/bin/perl;
switch the default the built-in path to /usr/local/bin/perl on not
too ancient FreeBSD releases.
* ew/find-perl-on-freebsd-in-local:
config.mak.uname: correct perl path on FreeBSD
My Debian wheezy LTS system is still on glibc 2.13; and LTS
distros may use older glibc, still, so lets not unnecessarily
break things out-of-the-box.
We seem to assume Linux is using glibc in our Makefiles anyways,
so I don't think this will introduce new breakage for users of
alternative libc implementations.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
MSYS2 emulates pseudo terminals via named pipes, and isatty() returns 0
for such file descriptors. Therefore, some interactive functionality
(such as launching a pager, asking if a failed unlink should be repeated
etc.) doesn't work when run in a terminal emulator that uses MSYS2's
ptys (such as mintty).
However, MSYS2 uses special names for its pty pipes ('msys-*-pty*'),
which allows us to distinguish them from normal piped input / output.
On startup, check if stdin / stdout / stderr are connected to such pipes
using the NtQueryObject API from NTDll.dll. If the names match, adjust
the flags in MSVCRT's ioinfo structure accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Cygwin, object creation uses the "create a temporary and then
rename it to the final name" pattern, not "create a temporary,
hardlink it to the final name and then unlink the temporary"
pattern.
This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is
already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds. It also
has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853
($gmane/275680, $gmane/291853).
* ad/cygwin-wants-rename:
config.mak.uname: Cygwin needs OBJECT_CREATION_USES_RENAMES
This reverts commit 7b6daf8d2f.
Now that st_add4() has been patched to work around the gcc 4.2.x
compiler crash, revert the sledge-hammer approach of forcing Mac OS X
10.6 to unconditionally use 'clang' rather than the default compiler
(gcc).
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Recent versions of GNU grep is pickier than before to decide if a
file is "binary" and refuse to give line-oriented hits when we
expect it to, unless explicitly told with "-a" option. As our
scripted Porcelains use sane_grep wrapper for line-oriented data,
even when the line may contain non-ASCII payload we took from
end-user data, use "grep -a" to implement sane_grep wrapper when
using an implementation of "grep" that takes the "-a" option.
* jc/sane-grep:
rebase-i: clarify "is this commit relevant?" test
sane_grep: pass "-a" if grep accepts it
Newer versions of GNU grep is reported to be pickier when we feed a
non-ASCII input and break some Porcelain scripts. As we know we do
not feed random binary file to our own sane_grep wrapper, allow us
to always pass "-a" by setting SANE_TEXT_GREP=-a Makefile variable
to work it around.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gcc under Mac OX 10.6 throws an internal compiler error:
CC combine-diff.o
combine-diff.c: In function ‘diff_tree_combined’:
combine-diff.c:1391: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
while attempting to build Git at 5b442c4f (tree-diff: catch integer
overflow in combine_diff_path allocation, 2016-02-19).
As clang that ships with the version does not have the same bug,
make Git compile under Mac OS X 10.6 by using clang instead of gcc
to work this around, as it is unlikely that we will see fixed GCC
on that platform.
Later versions of Mac OSX/Xcode only provide clang, and gcc is a
wrapper to it.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It does not quite work because it produces DOS line endings which the
shell does not like at all.
This lets t0200-gettext-basic.sh, t0204-gettext-reencode-sanity.sh,
t3406-rebase-message.sh, t3903-stash.sh, t7400-submodule-basic.sh,
t7401-submodule-summary.sh, t7406-submodule-update.sh and
t7407-submodule-foreach.sh pass in Git for Windows' SDK.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This solves two problems:
- we now have proper localisation even on Windows
- we sidestep the infamous "BUG: your vsnprintf is broken (returned -1)"
message when running "git init" (which otherwise prevents the entire
test suite from running) because libintl.h overrides vsnprintf() with
libintl_vsnprintf() [*1*]
The latter issue is rather crucial, as *no* test passes in Git for
Windows without this fix.
Footnote *1*: gettext_git=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git
$gettext_git/tree/gettext-runtime/intl/libgnuintl.in.h#n380
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This just makes things compile, the test suite needs extra tender loving
care in addition to this change. We will address these issues in later
commits.
While at it, also allow building MSys2 Git (i.e. a Git that uses MSys2's
POSIX emulation layer).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For a long time, Git for Windows lagged behind Git's 2.x releases because
the Git for Windows developers wanted to let that big jump coincide with
a well-needed jump away from MSys to MSys2.
To understand why this is such a big issue, it needs to be noted that
many parts of Git are not written in portable C, but instead Git relies
on a POSIX shell and Perl to be available.
To support the scripts, Git for Windows has to ship a minimal POSIX
emulation layer with Bash and Perl thrown in, and when the Git for
Windows effort started in August 2007, this developer settled on using
MSys, a stripped down version of Cygwin. Consequently, the original name
of the project was "msysGit" (which, sadly, caused a *lot* of confusion
because few Windows users know about MSys, and even less care).
To compile the C code of Git for Windows, MSys was used, too: it sports
two versions of the GNU C Compiler: one that links implicitly to the
POSIX emulation layer, and another one that targets the plain Win32 API
(with a few convenience functions thrown in). Git for Windows'
executables are built using the latter, and therefore they are really
just Win32 programs. To discern executables requiring the POSIX
emulation layer from the ones that do not, the latter are called MinGW
(Minimal GNU for Windows) when the former are called MSys executables.
This reliance on MSys incurred challenges, too, though: some of our
changes to the MSys runtime -- necessary to support Git for Windows
better -- were not accepted upstream, so we had to maintain our own
fork. Also, the MSys runtime was not developed further to support e.g.
UTF-8 or 64-bit, and apart from lacking a package management system
until much later (when mingw-get was introduced), many packages provided
by the MSys/MinGW project lag behind the respective source code
versions, in particular Bash and OpenSSL. For a while, the Git for
Windows project tried to remedy the situation by trying to build newer
versions of those packages, but the situation quickly became untenable,
especially with problems like the Heartbleed bug requiring swift action
that has nothing to do with developing Git for Windows further.
Happily, in the meantime the MSys2 project (https://msys2.github.io/)
emerged, and was chosen to be the base of the Git for Windows 2.x. Just
like MSys, MSys2 is a stripped down version of Cygwin, but it is
actively kept up-to-date with Cygwin's source code. Thereby, it already
supports Unicode internally, and it also offers the 64-bit support that
we yearned for since the beginning of the Git for Windows project.
MSys2 also ported the Pacman package management system from Arch Linux
and uses it heavily. This brings the same convenience to which Linux
users are used to from `yum` or `apt-get`, and to which MacOSX users are
used to from Homebrew or MacPorts, or BSD users from the Ports system,
to MSys2: a simple `pacman -Syu` will update all installed packages to
the newest versions currently available.
MSys2 is also *very* active, typically providing package updates
multiple times per week.
It still required a two-month effort to bring everything to a state
where Git's test suite passes, many more months until the first official
Git for Windows 2.x was released, and a couple of patches still await
their submission to the respective upstream projects. Yet without MSys2,
the modernization of Git for Windows would simply not have happened.
This commit lays the ground work to supporting MSys2-based Git builds.
Assisted-by: Waldek Maleska <weakcamel@users.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that fsck has dropped its inode-sorting, there are no
longer any users of this knob, and it can go away.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is
already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds.
This problem was reported on the Cygwin mailing list at
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-08/msg00102.html (amongst others)
and is being applied as a manual patch to the Cygwin builds until
the patch is taken here.
Reported-by: Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Mac OS X, getdelim() first became available with Xcode 4.1[1], which
was released the same day as OS X 10.7 "Lion", so assume getdelim()
availability from 10.7 onward. (As of this writing, OS X is at 10.10
"Yosemite".)
According to Wikipedia[2], 4.1 was also available for download by paying
developers on OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard", so it's possible that some 10.6
machines may have getdelim(). However, as strbuf's use of getdelim() is
purely an optimization, let's be conservative and assume 10.6 and
earlier lack getdelim().
[1]: Or, possibly with Xcode 4.0, but that version is no longer
available for download, or not available to non-paying developers,
so testing is not possible.
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We spend a lot of time in strbuf_getwholeline in a tight
loop reading characters from a stdio handle into a buffer.
The libc getdelim() function can do this for us with less
overhead. It's in POSIX.1-2008, and was a GNU extension
before that. Therefore we can't rely on it, but can fall
back to the existing getc loop when it is not available.
The HAVE_GETDELIM knob is turned on automatically for Linux,
where we have glibc. We don't need to set any new
feature-test macros, because we already define _GNU_SOURCE.
Other systems that implement getdelim may need to other
macros (probably _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L), but we can
address that along with setting the Makefile knob after
testing the feature on those systems.
Running "git rev-parse refs/heads/does-not-exist" on a repo
with an extremely large (1.6GB) packed-refs file went from
(best-of-5):
real 0m8.601s
user 0m8.084s
sys 0m0.524s
to:
real 0m6.768s
user 0m6.340s
sys 0m0.432s
for a wall-clock speedup of 21%.
Based on a patch from Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On BSD-compatible systems some information such as the number
of available CPUs may only be available via the sysctl function.
Add support for a HAVE_BSD_SYSCTL option complete with autoconf
support and include the sys/syctl.h header when the option is
enabled to make the sysctl function available.
Signed-off-by: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>