From 650ee42320518ecc464853ea84d4e20192efee1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 01/12] mingw: include the Python parts in the build While Git for Windows does not _ship_ Python (in order to save on bandwidth), MSYS2 provides very fine Python interpreters that users can easily take advantage of, by using Git for Windows within its SDK. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index 9ebd240378..8dd8acfaa5 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -781,6 +781,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H = YesPlease USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME = fallthrough USE_LIBPCRE = YesPlease + NO_PYTHON = ifeq (/mingw64,$(subst 32,64,$(subst clangarm,mingw,$(prefix)))) # Move system config into top-level /etc/ ETC_GITCONFIG = ../etc/gitconfig From 1128542e8dc03b3a2c3cd5cb4fdc7225ba9cce82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 02/12] mingw: stop hard-coding `CC = gcc` This is no longer true in general, not with supporting Clang out of the box. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index 8dd8acfaa5..a464b2009c 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -771,7 +771,6 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--large-address-aware endif - CC = gcc COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY \ -fstack-protector-strong EXTLIBS += -lntdll From e27c6d1549ce2ba6a540b5516e88e1d8ba2df2b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 03/12] mingw: drop the -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T option This option was added in fa93bb20d72 (MinGW: Fix stat definitions to work with MinGW runtime version 4.0, 2013-09-11), i.e. a _long_ time ago. So long, in fact, that it still targeted MinGW. But we switched to mingw-w64 in 2015, which seems not to share the problem, and therefore does not require a fix. Even worse: This flag is incompatible with UCRT64, which we are about to support by way of upstreaming `mingw-w64-git` to the MSYS2 project, see https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/26470 for details. So let's send that option into its well-deserved retirement. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index a464b2009c..cc0ed63af3 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -768,7 +768,6 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) HOST_CPU = aarch64 BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable,-e,mainCRTStartup else - COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--large-address-aware endif COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY \ From b17a856e3cb0b5a9f411417a840c37a9f6e4b542 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 04/12] mingw: only use -Wl,--large-address-aware for 32-bit builds That option only matters there, and is in fact only really understood in those builds; UCRT64 versions of GCC, for example, do not know what to do with that option. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index cc0ed63af3..b667c693ec 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -757,9 +757,8 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM)) prefix = /mingw32 HOST_CPU = i686 - BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable,-e,_mainCRTStartup - endif - ifeq (MINGW64,$(MSYSTEM)) + BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable,-e,_mainCRTStartup -Wl,--large-address-aware + else ifeq (MINGW64,$(MSYSTEM)) prefix = /mingw64 HOST_CPU = x86_64 BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable,-e,mainCRTStartup @@ -768,7 +767,6 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) HOST_CPU = aarch64 BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable,-e,mainCRTStartup else - BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--large-address-aware endif COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY \ -fstack-protector-strong From 02b1a9bed226babe1d47635f56083e5f78996dc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 05/12] mingw: avoid over-specifying `--pic-executable` In bf2d5d8239e (Don't let ld strip relocations, 2016-01-16) (picked from https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/pull/612/commits/6a237925bf10), Git for Windows introduced the `-Wl,-pic-executable` flag, specifying the exact entry point via `-e`. This required discerning between i686 and x86_64 code because the former required the symbol to be prefixed with an underscore, the latter did not. As per https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10865, the specified symbols are already the default, though. So let's drop the overly-specific definition. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index b667c693ec..f6387f4c7b 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -757,15 +757,15 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM)) prefix = /mingw32 HOST_CPU = i686 - BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable,-e,_mainCRTStartup -Wl,--large-address-aware + BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable -Wl,--large-address-aware else ifeq (MINGW64,$(MSYSTEM)) prefix = /mingw64 HOST_CPU = x86_64 - BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable,-e,mainCRTStartup + BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable else ifeq (CLANGARM64,$(MSYSTEM)) prefix = /clangarm64 HOST_CPU = aarch64 - BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable,-e,mainCRTStartup + BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable else endif COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY \ From dc2af6405584f8f229d235abcbd2d3634c1b996a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 06/12] mingw: set the prefix and HOST_CPU as per MSYS2's settings MSYS2 already defines a couple of helpful environment variables, and we can use those to infer the installation location as well as the CPU. No need for hard-coding ;-) Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 18 ++++++------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index f6387f4c7b..8363239513 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -754,19 +754,13 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) ifneq (,$(findstring -O,$(filter-out -O0 -Og,$(CFLAGS)))) BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--dynamicbase endif - ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM)) - prefix = /mingw32 - HOST_CPU = i686 - BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable -Wl,--large-address-aware - else ifeq (MINGW64,$(MSYSTEM)) - prefix = /mingw64 - HOST_CPU = x86_64 + ifneq (,$(MSYSTEM)) + prefix = $(MINGW_PREFIX) + HOST_CPU = $(patsubst %-w64-mingw32,%,$(MINGW_CHOST)) BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable - else ifeq (CLANGARM64,$(MSYSTEM)) - prefix = /clangarm64 - HOST_CPU = aarch64 - BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable - else + ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM)) + BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--large-address-aware + endif endif COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY \ -fstack-protector-strong From e9d9f9e1402a36cf6ae05f970acb3aeb26c71c99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 07/12] mingw: only enable the MSYS2-specific stuff when compiling in MSYS2 The tell-tale is the presence of the `MSYSTEM` value while compiling, of course. In that case, we want to ensure that `MSYSTEM` is set when running `git.exe`, and also enable the magic MSYS2 tty detection. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index 8363239513..21f53e3f7e 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -758,12 +758,12 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) prefix = $(MINGW_PREFIX) HOST_CPU = $(patsubst %-w64-mingw32,%,$(MINGW_CHOST)) BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable + COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM)) BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--large-address-aware endif endif - COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY \ - -fstack-protector-strong + COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 -fstack-protector-strong EXTLIBS += -lntdll EXTRA_PROGRAMS += headless-git$X INSTALL = /bin/install From cae26fbd3a97f3d82ac65bad1af5e97bf0233c76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 08/12] mingw: rely on MSYS2's metadata instead of hard-coding it MSYS2 defines some helpful environment variables, e.g. `MSYSTEM`. There is code in Git for Windows to ensure that that `MSYSTEM` variable is set, hard-coding a default. However, the existing solution jumps through hoops to reconstruct the proper default, and is even incomplete doing so, as we found out when we extended it to support CLANGARM64. This is absolutely unnecessary because there is already a perfectly valid `MSYSTEM` value we can use at build time. This is even true when building the MINGW32 variant on a MINGW64 system because `makepkg-mingw` will override the `MSYSTEM` value as per the `MINGW_ARCH` array. The same is equally true for the `/mingw64`, `/mingw32` and `/clangarm64` prefix: those values are already available via the `MINGW_PREFIX` environment variable, and we just need to pass that setting through. Only when `MINGW_PREFIX` is not set (as is the case in Git for Windows' minimal SDK, where only `MSYSTEM` is guaranteed to be set correctly), we use as fall-back the top-level directory whose name is the down-cased value of the `MSYSTEM` variable. Incidentally, this also broadens the support to all the configurations supported by the MSYS2 project, i.e. clang64 & ucrt64, too. Note: This keeps the same, hard-coded MSYSTEM platform support for CMake as before, but drops it for Meson (because it is unclear how Meson could do this in a more flexible manner). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 14 ++++++-------- contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt | 9 ++++++++- meson.build | 13 ++++++++++++- meson_options.txt | 4 ++++ 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index 21f53e3f7e..3a90995587 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -465,14 +465,8 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows) GIT_VERSION := $(GIT_VERSION).MSVC pathsep = ; # Assume that this is built in Git for Windows' SDK - ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM)) - prefix = /mingw32 - else - ifeq (CLANGARM64,$(MSYSTEM)) - prefix = /clangarm64 - else - prefix = /mingw64 - endif + ifneq (,$(MSYSTEM)) + prefix = $(MINGW_PREFIX) endif # Prepend MSVC 64-bit tool-chain to PATH. # @@ -755,6 +749,10 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--dynamicbase endif ifneq (,$(MSYSTEM)) + ifeq ($(MINGW_PREFIX),$(filter-out /%,$(MINGW_PREFIX))) + # Override if empty or does not start with a slash + MINGW_PREFIX := /$(shell echo '$(MSYSTEM)' | tr A-Z a-z) + endif prefix = $(MINGW_PREFIX) HOST_CPU = $(patsubst %-w64-mingw32,%,$(MINGW_CHOST)) BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable diff --git a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt index a57c4b464f..7285bd9ac2 100644 --- a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt +++ b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt @@ -256,7 +256,14 @@ if(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "Windows") _CONSOLE DETECT_MSYS_TTY STRIP_EXTENSION=".exe" NO_SYMLINK_HEAD UNRELIABLE_FSTAT NOGDI OBJECT_CREATION_MODE=1 __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 OVERRIDE_STRDUP MMAP_PREVENTS_DELETE USE_WIN32_MMAP - HAVE_WPGMPTR ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET HAVE_RTLGENRANDOM) + HAVE_WPGMPTR HAVE_RTLGENRANDOM) + if(CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM STREQUAL "x64") + add_compile_definitions(ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET="MINGW64" MINGW_PREFIX="mingw64") + elseif(CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM STREQUAL "arm64") + add_compile_definitions(ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET="CLANGARM64" MINGW_PREFIX="clangarm64") + elseif(CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM STREQUAL "x86") + add_compile_definitions(ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET="MINGW32" MINGW_PREFIX="mingw32") + endif() list(APPEND compat_SOURCES compat/mingw.c compat/winansi.c diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index 7073d5844d..6ddc461873 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -1318,7 +1318,6 @@ elif host_machine.system() == 'windows' libgit_c_args += [ '-DDETECT_MSYS_TTY', - '-DENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET', '-DNATIVE_CRLF', '-DNOGDI', '-DNO_POSIX_GOODIES', @@ -1328,6 +1327,18 @@ elif host_machine.system() == 'windows' '-D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0', ] + msystem = get_option('msystem') + if msystem != '' + mingw_prefix = get_option('mingw_prefix') + if mingw_prefix == '' + mingw_prefix = '/' + msystem.to_lower() + endif + libgit_c_args += [ + '-DENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET="' + msystem + '"', + '-DMINGW_PREFIX="' + mingw_prefix + '"' + ] + endif + libgit_dependencies += compiler.find_library('ntdll') libgit_include_directories += 'compat/win32' if compiler.get_id() == 'msvc' diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt index dc88f130d7..becf4689bf 100644 --- a/meson_options.txt +++ b/meson_options.txt @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ option('runtime_prefix', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'Resolve ancillary tooling and support files relative to the location of the runtime binary instead of hard-coding them into the binary.') option('sane_tool_path', type: 'array', value: [], description: 'An array of paths to pick up tools from in case the normal tools are broken or lacking.') +option('msystem', type: 'string', value: '', + description: 'Fall-back on Windows when MSYSTEM is not set.') +option('mingw_prefix', type: 'string', value: '', + description: 'Fall-back on Windows when MINGW_PREFIX is not set.') # Build information compiled into Git and other parts like documentation. option('build_date', type: 'string', value: '', From 7c41b894c1086dfdc78e35e4c35cfeb58be34796 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 09/12] windows: skip linking `git-` for built-ins It is merely a historical wart that, say, `git-commit` exists in the `libexec/git-core/` directory, a tribute to the original idea to let Git be essentially a bunch of Unix shell scripts revolving around very few "plumbing" (AKA low-level) commands. Git has evolved a lot from there. These days, most of Git's functionality is contained within the `git` executable, in the form of "built-in" commands. To accommodate for scripts that use the "dashed" form of Git commands, even today, Git provides hard-links that make the `git` executable available as, say, `git-commit`, just in case that an old script has not been updated to invoke `git commit`. Those hard-links do not come cheap: they take about half a minute for every build of Git on Windows, they are mistaken for taking up huge amounts of space by some Windows Explorer versions that do not understand hard-links, and therefore many a "bug" report had to be addressed. The "dashed form" has been officially deprecated in Git version 1.5.4, which was released on February 2nd, 2008, i.e. a very long time ago. This deprecation was never finalized by skipping these hard-links, but we can start the process now, in Git for Windows. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index 3a90995587..88bbe1d78f 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows) NO_POSIX_GOODIES = UnfortunatelyYes NATIVE_CRLF = YesPlease DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT = html + SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS = YabbaDabbaDoo ifeq (/mingw64,$(subst 32,64,$(subst clangarm,mingw,$(prefix)))) # Move system config into top-level /etc/ ETC_GITCONFIG = ../etc/gitconfig @@ -710,6 +711,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) FSMONITOR_DAEMON_BACKEND = win32 FSMONITOR_OS_SETTINGS = win32 + SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS = YabbaDabbaDoo RUNTIME_PREFIX = YesPlease HAVE_WPGMPTR = YesWeDo NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT = YesPlease From b21ddebf18779b87975dbc1b3f9aa5c9879930e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 10/12] mingw: always define `ETC_*` for MSYS2 environments Special-casing even more configurations simply does not make sense. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.mak.uname | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index 88bbe1d78f..2f7d445eb3 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows) NATIVE_CRLF = YesPlease DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT = html SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS = YabbaDabbaDoo -ifeq (/mingw64,$(subst 32,64,$(subst clangarm,mingw,$(prefix)))) +ifneq (,$(MINGW_PREFIX)) # Move system config into top-level /etc/ ETC_GITCONFIG = ../etc/gitconfig ETC_GITATTRIBUTES = ../etc/gitattributes @@ -762,6 +762,9 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM)) BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--large-address-aware endif + # Move system config into top-level /etc/ + ETC_GITCONFIG = ../etc/gitconfig + ETC_GITATTRIBUTES = ../etc/gitattributes endif COMPAT_CFLAGS += -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0 -fstack-protector-strong EXTLIBS += -lntdll @@ -772,11 +775,6 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME = fallthrough USE_LIBPCRE = YesPlease NO_PYTHON = - ifeq (/mingw64,$(subst 32,64,$(subst clangarm,mingw,$(prefix)))) - # Move system config into top-level /etc/ - ETC_GITCONFIG = ../etc/gitconfig - ETC_GITATTRIBUTES = ../etc/gitattributes - endif endif ifeq ($(uname_S),QNX) COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DSA_RESTART=0 From 9d463e9b571dca8454c4efab87c8fcf77590cf36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 11/12] mingw: ensure valid CTYPE A change between versions 2.4.1 and 2.6.0 of the MSYS2 runtime modified how Cygwin's runtime (and hence Git for Windows' MSYS2 runtime derivative) handles locales: d16a56306d (Consolidate wctomb/mbtowc calls for POSIX-1.2008, 2016-07-20). An unintended side-effect is that "cold-calling" into the POSIX emulation will start with a locale based on the current code page, something that Git for Windows is very ill-prepared for, as it expects to be able to pass a command-line containing non-ASCII characters to the shell without having those characters munged. One symptom of this behavior: when `git clone` or `git fetch` shell out to call `git-upload-pack` with a path that contains non-ASCII characters, the shell tried to interpret the entire command-line (including command-line parameters) as executable path, which obviously must fail. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1036 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- compat/mingw.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index e0fbd2c66d..afdc1ef2db 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -3185,6 +3185,9 @@ static void setup_windows_environment(void) if (!tmp && (tmp = getenv("USERPROFILE"))) setenv("HOME", tmp, 1); } + + if (!getenv("LC_ALL") && !getenv("LC_CTYPE") && !getenv("LANG")) + setenv("LC_CTYPE", "C.UTF-8", 1); } int mingw_platform_has_symlinks(void) From 030317924b1513e73a83a2cd1bc9687663612dbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:26:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 12/12] mingw: allow `git.exe` to be used instead of the "Git wrapper" Git for Windows wants to add `git.exe` to the users' `PATH`, without cluttering the latter with unnecessary executables such as `wish.exe`. To that end, it invented the concept of its "Git wrapper", i.e. a tiny executable located in `C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe` (originally a CMD script) whose sole purpose is to set up a couple of environment variables and then spawn the _actual_ `git.exe` (which nowadays lives in `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe` for 64-bit, and the obvious equivalent for 32-bit installations). Currently, the following environment variables are set unless already initialized: - `MSYSTEM`, to make sure that the MSYS2 Bash and the MSYS2 Perl interpreter behave as expected, and - `PLINK_PROTOCOL`, to force PuTTY's `plink.exe` to use the SSH protocol instead of Telnet, - `PATH`, to make sure that the `bin` folder in the user's home directory, as well as the `/mingw64/bin` and the `/usr/bin` directories are included. The trick here is that the `/mingw64/bin/` and `/usr/bin/` directories are relative to the top-level installation directory of Git for Windows (which the included Bash interprets as `/`, i.e. as the MSYS pseudo root directory). Using the absence of `MSYSTEM` as a tell-tale, we can detect in `git.exe` whether these environment variables have been initialized properly. Therefore we can call `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git` in-place after this change, without having to call Git through the Git wrapper. Obviously, above-mentioned directories must be _prepended_ to the `PATH` variable, otherwise we risk picking up executables from unrelated Git installations. We do that by constructing the new `PATH` value from scratch, appending `$HOME/bin` (if `HOME` is set), then the MSYS2 system directories, and then appending the original `PATH`. Side note: this modification of the `PATH` variable is independent of the modification necessary to reach the executables and scripts in `/mingw64/libexec/git-core/`, i.e. the `GIT_EXEC_PATH`. That modification is still performed by Git, elsewhere, long after making the changes described above. While we _still_ cannot simply hard-link `mingw64\bin\git.exe` to `cmd` (because the former depends on a couple of `.dll` files that are only in `mingw64\bin`, i.e. calling `...\cmd\git.exe` would fail to load due to missing dependencies), at least we can now avoid that extra process of running the Git wrapper (which then has to wait for the spawned `git.exe` to finish) by calling `...\mingw64\bin\git.exe` directly, via its absolute path. Testing this is in Git's test suite tricky: we set up a "new" MSYS pseudo-root and copy the `git.exe` file into the appropriate location, then verify that `MSYSTEM` is set properly, and also that the `PATH` is modified so that scripts can be found in `$HOME/bin`, `/mingw64/bin/` and `/usr/bin/`. This addresses https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2283 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- compat/mingw.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ config.mak.uname | 8 ++++-- t/t0060-path-utils.sh | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++- 3 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index afdc1ef2db..563e6299bc 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -3134,6 +3134,45 @@ int xwcstoutf(char *utf, const wchar_t *wcs, size_t utflen) return -1; } +#ifdef ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET +#if !defined(RUNTIME_PREFIX) || !defined(HAVE_WPGMPTR) || !defined(MINGW_PREFIX) +static size_t append_system_bin_dirs(char *path UNUSED, size_t size UNUSED) +{ + return 0; +} +#else +static size_t append_system_bin_dirs(char *path, size_t size) +{ + char prefix[32768]; + const char *slash; + size_t len = xwcstoutf(prefix, _wpgmptr, sizeof(prefix)), off = 0; + + if (len == 0 || len >= sizeof(prefix) || + !(slash = find_last_dir_sep(prefix))) + return 0; + /* strip trailing `git.exe` */ + len = slash - prefix; + + /* strip trailing `cmd` or `\bin` or `bin` or `libexec\git-core` */ + if (strip_suffix_mem(prefix, &len, "\\" MINGW_PREFIX "\\libexec\\git-core") || + strip_suffix_mem(prefix, &len, "\\" MINGW_PREFIX "\\bin")) + off += xsnprintf(path + off, size - off, + "%.*s\\" MINGW_PREFIX "\\bin;", (int)len, prefix); + else if (strip_suffix_mem(prefix, &len, "\\cmd") || + strip_suffix_mem(prefix, &len, "\\bin") || + strip_suffix_mem(prefix, &len, "\\libexec\\git-core")) + off += xsnprintf(path + off, size - off, + "%.*s\\" MINGW_PREFIX "\\bin;", (int)len, prefix); + else + return 0; + + off += xsnprintf(path + off, size - off, + "%.*s\\usr\\bin;", (int)len, prefix); + return off; +} +#endif +#endif + static void setup_windows_environment(void) { char *tmp = getenv("TMPDIR"); @@ -3186,6 +3225,32 @@ static void setup_windows_environment(void) setenv("HOME", tmp, 1); } + if (!getenv("PLINK_PROTOCOL")) + setenv("PLINK_PROTOCOL", "ssh", 0); + +#ifdef ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET + if (!(tmp = getenv("MSYSTEM")) || !tmp[0]) { + const char *home = getenv("HOME"), *path = getenv("PATH"); + char buf[32768]; + size_t off = 0; + + setenv("MSYSTEM", ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET, 1); + + if (home) + off += xsnprintf(buf + off, sizeof(buf) - off, + "%s\\bin;", home); + off += append_system_bin_dirs(buf + off, sizeof(buf) - off); + if (path) + off += xsnprintf(buf + off, sizeof(buf) - off, + "%s", path); + else if (off > 0) + buf[off - 1] = '\0'; + else + buf[0] = '\0'; + setenv("PATH", buf, 1); + } +#endif + if (!getenv("LC_ALL") && !getenv("LC_CTYPE") && !getenv("LANG")) setenv("LC_CTYPE", "C.UTF-8", 1); } diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname index 2f7d445eb3..0b63be10b7 100644 --- a/config.mak.uname +++ b/config.mak.uname @@ -535,7 +535,9 @@ endif compat/win32/pthread.o compat/win32/syslog.o \ compat/win32/trace2_win32_process_info.o \ compat/win32/dirent.o - COMPAT_CFLAGS = -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY -DNOGDI -DHAVE_STRING_H -Icompat -Icompat/regex -Icompat/win32 -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\" + COMPAT_CFLAGS = -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY \ + -DENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET="\"$(MSYSTEM)\"" -DMINGW_PREFIX="\"$(patsubst /%,%,$(MINGW_PREFIX))\"" \ + -DNOGDI -DHAVE_STRING_H -Icompat -Icompat/regex -Icompat/win32 -DSTRIP_EXTENSION=\".exe\" BASIC_LDFLAGS = -IGNORE:4217 -IGNORE:4049 -NOLOGO -ENTRY:wmainCRTStartup -SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE # invalidcontinue.obj allows Git's source code to close the same file # handle twice, or to access the osfhandle of an already-closed stdout @@ -758,7 +760,9 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),MINGW) prefix = $(MINGW_PREFIX) HOST_CPU = $(patsubst %-w64-mingw32,%,$(MINGW_CHOST)) BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--pic-executable - COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY + COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DDETECT_MSYS_TTY \ + -DENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET="\"$(MSYSTEM)\"" \ + -DMINGW_PREFIX="\"$(patsubst /%,%,$(MINGW_PREFIX))\"" ifeq (MINGW32,$(MSYSTEM)) BASIC_LDFLAGS += -Wl,--large-address-aware endif diff --git a/t/t0060-path-utils.sh b/t/t0060-path-utils.sh index 8545cdfab5..56faf5fe73 100755 --- a/t/t0060-path-utils.sh +++ b/t/t0060-path-utils.sh @@ -602,7 +602,8 @@ test_expect_success !VALGRIND,RUNTIME_PREFIX,CAN_EXEC_IN_PWD 'RUNTIME_PREFIX wor echo "echo HERE" | write_script pretend/libexec/git-core/git-here && GIT_EXEC_PATH= ./pretend/bin/git here >actual && echo HERE >expect && - test_cmp expect actual' + test_cmp expect actual +' test_expect_success !VALGRIND,RUNTIME_PREFIX,CAN_EXEC_IN_PWD '%(prefix)/ works' ' git config yes.path "%(prefix)/yes" && @@ -611,4 +612,34 @@ test_expect_success !VALGRIND,RUNTIME_PREFIX,CAN_EXEC_IN_PWD '%(prefix)/ works' test_cmp expect actual ' +test_expect_success MINGW,RUNTIME_PREFIX 'MSYSTEM/PATH is adjusted if necessary' ' + if test -z "$MINGW_PREFIX" + then + MINGW_PREFIX="/$(echo "${MSYSTEM:-MINGW64}" | tr A-Z a-z)" + fi && + mkdir -p "$HOME"/bin pretend"$MINGW_PREFIX"/bin \ + pretend"$MINGW_PREFIX"/libexec/git-core pretend/usr/bin && + cp "$GIT_EXEC_PATH"/git.exe pretend"$MINGW_PREFIX"/bin/ && + cp "$GIT_EXEC_PATH"/git.exe pretend"$MINGW_PREFIX"/libexec/git-core/ && + # copy the .dll files, if any (happens when building via CMake) + if test -n "$(ls "$GIT_EXEC_PATH"/*.dll 2>/dev/null)" + then + cp "$GIT_EXEC_PATH"/*.dll pretend"$MINGW_PREFIX"/bin/ && + cp "$GIT_EXEC_PATH"/*.dll pretend"$MINGW_PREFIX"/libexec/git-core/ + fi && + echo "env | grep MSYSTEM=" | write_script "$HOME"/bin/git-test-home && + echo "echo ${MINGW_PREFIX#/}" | write_script pretend"$MINGW_PREFIX"/bin/git-test-bin && + echo "echo usr" | write_script pretend/usr/bin/git-test-bin2 && + + ( + MSYSTEM= && + GIT_EXEC_PATH= && + pretend"$MINGW_PREFIX"/libexec/git-core/git.exe test-home >actual && + pretend"$MINGW_PREFIX"/libexec/git-core/git.exe test-bin >>actual && + pretend"$MINGW_PREFIX"/bin/git.exe test-bin2 >>actual + ) && + test_write_lines MSYSTEM=$MSYSTEM "${MINGW_PREFIX#/}" usr >expect && + test_cmp expect actual +' + test_done