On Windows >= Vista, not having an application manifest with a
requestedExecutionLevel can cause several kinds of confusing behavior.
The first and more obvious behavior is "Installer Detection" of the
"User Account Control" (also known as "UAC") feature, where Windows
sometimes decides (by looking at things like the file name and even
sequences of bytes within the executable) that an executable is an
installer and should run elevated (causing the well-known popup dialog
to appear). In Git's context, subcommands such as "git patch-id" or "git
update-index" fall prey to this behavior.
The second and more confusing behavior is "File Virtualization". It
means that when files are written without having write permission, it
does not fail (as expected), but they are instead redirected to
somewhere else. When the files are read, the original contents are
returned, though, not the ones that were just written somewhere else.
Even more confusing, not all write accesses are redirected; Trying to
write to write-protected .exe files, for example, will fail instead of
redirecting.
In addition to being unwanted behavior, File Virtualization causes
dramatic slowdowns in Git (see for instance
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=320).
A third unwanted behavior of Windows >= Vista is that it lies about the
Windows version when calling `GetWindowsVersionEx()`.
There are two ways to prevent these unwanted behaviors: Either you embed
an application manifest (which really is an XML document conforming to a
specific schema) within all your executables, or you add an external
manifest (a file with the same name followed by `.manifest`) to all your
executables. Since Git's builtins are hardlinked (or copied), it is
simpler and more robust to embed a manifest.
Recent enough MSVC compilers already embed a working internal manifest,
and building with mingw-w64 (which is the case in Git for Windows' SDK)
does it, too, but for MinGW you have to do so by hand.
In any case, it is better to be explicit about this manifest, that way
changes in the compiler toolchain won't surprise us (as mingw-w64 once
did when it broke `GetWindowsVersionEx()` by mistake).
References:
- New UAC Technologies for Windows Vista
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx
- Create and Embed an Application Manifest (UAC)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx
Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been
updated.
* mo/clang-format-for-each-update:
clang-format: use git grep to generate the ForEachMacros list
The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end
of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence.
* md/url-parse-harden:
url: do not allow %00 to represent NUL in URLs
url: do not read past end of buffer
The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
matches directories") has been revamped.
* an/ignore-doc-update:
gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readable
The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a
lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API
correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element
of the array in use. This has been corrected.
* md/list-objects-filter-memfix:
list-objects-filter: correct usage of ALLOC_GROW
"git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are
necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been
corrected.
* jt/partial-clone-missing-ref-delta-base:
t5616: cover case of client having delta base
t5616: use correct flag to check object is missing
index-pack: prefetch missing REF_DELTA bases
t5616: refactor packfile replacement
The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
boundary for Rust has been added.
* ml/userdiff-rust:
userdiff: two simplifications of patterns for rust
userdiff: add built-in pattern for rust
When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is
recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a
hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected
to honor the "--origin <name>" option.
* xl/record-partial-clone-origin:
clone: respect user supplied origin name when setting up partial clone
"git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull
from in the local repository and in the published repository are
different.
* pb/request-pull-verify-remote-ref:
request-pull: warn if the remote object is not the same as the local one
request-pull: quote regex metacharacters in local ref
The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside
"git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a
broken command on Windows, which has been corrected.
* mm/p4-unshelve-windows-fix:
p4 unshelve: fix "Not a valid object name HEAD0" on Windows
"git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some
people).
* po/git-help-on-git-itself:
Doc: git.txt: remove backticks from link and add git-scm.com/docs
git.c: show usage for accessing the git(1) help page
A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core
developers.
* es/first-contrib-tutorial:
doc: add some nit fixes to MyFirstContribution
documentation: add anchors to MyFirstContribution
documentation: add tutorial for first contribution
The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to
the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which
has been corrected.
* js/fsmonitor-unflake:
mark_fsmonitor_valid(): mark the index as changed if needed
fill_stat_cache_info(): prepare for an fsmonitor fix
Prepare use of reachability index in topological walker that works
on a range (A..B).
* ds/topo-traversal-using-commit-graph:
revision: keep topo-walk free of unintersting commits
revision: use generation for A..B --topo-order queries
The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
boundary for Matlab has been extend to cover Octave, which is more
or less equivalent.
* bl/userdiff-octave:
userdiff: fix grammar and style issues
userdiff: add Octave
"git clone --recurse-submodules" learned to set up the submodules
to ignore commit object names recorded in the superproject gitlink
and instead use the commits that happen to be at the tip of the
remote-tracking branches from the get-go, by passing the new
"--remote-submodules" option.
* ba/clone-remote-submodules:
clone: add `--remote-submodules` flag
"git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
when both options are given.
* vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit:
merge: refuse --commit with --squash
"git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in
the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are
in a repository upfront, which has been corrected.
* js/bundle-verify-require-object-store:
bundle verify: error out if called without an object database
"git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as
if it were a tree, which has been corrected.
* jk/am-i-resolved-fix:
am: fix --interactive HEAD tree resolution
am: drop tty requirement for --interactive
am: read interactive input from stdin
am: simplify prompt response handling
The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect
value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in
use, which has been corrected.
* jk/HEAD-symref-in-xfer-namespaces:
upload-pack: strip namespace from symref data
"git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its
output, which has been corrected.
* ew/server-info-remove-crufts:
server-info: do not list unlinked packs
A "merge -c" instruction during "git rebase --rebase-merges" should
give the user a chance to edit the log message, even when there is
otherwise no need to create a new merge and replace the existing
one (i.e. fast-forward instead), but did not. Which has been
corrected.
* pw/rebase-edit-message-for-replayed-merge:
rebase -r: always reword merge -c
The way of specifying the path to find dynamic libraries at runtime
has been simplified. The old default to pass -R/path/to/dir has been
replaced with the new default to pass -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/dir,
which is the more recent GCC uses. Those who need to build with an
old GCC can still use "CC_LD_DYNPATH=-R"
* ab/deprecate-R-for-dynpath:
Makefile: remove the NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER flag
The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote
backend was mixed up, leading to unrelated file descriptor getting
closed, which has been fixed.
* mh/import-transport-fd-fix:
Use xmmap_gently instead of xmmap in use_pack
dup() the input fd for fast-import used for remote helpers
"git update-server-info" learned not to rewrite the file with the
same contents.
* ew/update-server-info:
update-server-info: avoid needless overwrites
Improve the code to show args with potential typo that cannot be
interpreted as a commit-ish.
* jk/help-unknown-ref-fix:
help_unknown_ref(): check for refname ambiguity
help_unknown_ref(): duplicate collected refnames
"git format-patch" learns a configuration to set the default for
its --notes=<ref> option.
* dl/format-patch-notes-config:
format-patch: teach format.notes config option
git-format-patch.txt: document --no-notes option
"git merge" learned "--quit" option that cleans up the in-progress
merge while leaving the working tree and the index still in a mess.
* nd/merge-quit:
merge: add --quit
merge: remove drop_save() in favor of remove_merge_branch_state()
Developer support to emulate unsatisfied prerequisites in tests to
ensure that the remainer of the tests still succeeds when tests
with prerequisites are skipped.
* ab/fail-prereqs-in-test:
tests: add a special setup where prerequisites fail
"git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to
the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected.
* nd/corrupt-worktrees:
worktree add: be tolerant of corrupt worktrees
Update supporting parts of "git rebase" to remove code that should
no longer be used.
* js/rebase-cleanup:
rebase: fold git-rebase--common into the -p backend
sequencer: the `am` and `rebase--interactive` scripts are gone
.gitignore: there is no longer a built-in `git-rebase--interactive`
t3400: stop referring to the scripted rebase
Drop unused git-rebase--am.sh
In recent versions of Git, per-worktree refs are exposed in
refs/worktrees/<wtname>/ hierarchy, which means that worktree names
must be a valid refname component. The code now sanitizes the names
given to worktrees, to make sure these refs are well-formed.
* nd/worktree-name-sanitization:
worktree add: sanitize worktree names
The "git fast-export/import" pair has been taught to handle commits
with log messages in encoding other than UTF-8 better.
* en/fast-export-encoding:
fast-export: do automatic reencoding of commit messages only if requested
fast-export: differentiate between explicitly UTF-8 and implicitly UTF-8
fast-export: avoid stripping encoding header if we cannot reencode
fast-import: support 'encoding' commit header
t9350: fix encoding test to actually test reencoding
* jk/unused-params-final-batch:
verify-commit: simplify parameters to run_gpg_verify()
show-branch: drop unused parameter from show_independent()
rev-list: drop unused void pointer from finish_commit()
remove_all_fetch_refspecs(): drop unused "remote" parameter
receive-pack: drop unused "commands" from prepare_shallow_update()
pack-objects: drop unused rev_info parameters
name-rev: drop unused parameters from is_better_name()
mktree: drop unused length parameter
wt-status: drop unused status parameter
read-cache: drop unused parameter from threaded load
clone: drop dest parameter from copy_alternates()
submodule: drop unused prefix parameter from some functions
builtin: consistently pass cmd_* prefix to parse_options
cmd_{read,write}_tree: rename "unused" variable that is used
The "--base" option of "format-patch" computed the patch-ids for
prerequisite patches in an unstable way, which has been updated to
compute in a way that is compatible with "git patch-id --stable".
* sb/format-patch-base-patch-id-fix:
format-patch: make --base patch-id output stable
format-patch: inform user that patch-id generation is unstable
A relative pathname given to "git init --template=<path> <repo>"
ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in,
but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been
corrected.
* nd/init-relative-template-fix:
init: make --template path relative to $CWD
Since "git send-email" learned to take 'auto' as the value for the
transfer-encoding, it by mistake stopped honoring the values given
to the configuration variables sendemail.transferencoding and/or
sendemail.<ident>.transferencoding. This has been corrected to
(finally) redoing the order of setting the default, reading the
configuration and command line options.
* ab/send-email-transferencoding-fix:
send-email: fix regression in sendemail.identity parsing
send-email: document --no-[to|cc|bcc]
send-email: fix broken transferEncoding tests
send-email: remove cargo-culted multi-patch pattern in tests
send-email: do defaults -> config -> getopt in that order
send-email: rename the @bcclist variable for consistency
send-email: move the read_config() function above getopts
When fetching into a partial clone, Git first prefetches missing
REF_DELTA bases from the promisor remote. (This feature was introduced
in [1].) But as can be seen in a recent test coverage report [2], the
case in which a REF_DELTA base is already present is not covered by
tests.
Extend the tests slightly to cover this case.
[1] 8a30a1efd1 ("index-pack: prefetch missing REF_DELTA bases",
2019-05-15).
[2] https://public-inbox.org/git/396091fc-5572-19a5-4f18-61c258590dd5@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cesar Eduardo Barros
Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Tan