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Johannes Schindelin f7ee88f1d0 subtree: fix the GIT_EXEC_PATH sanity check to work on Windows
In 22d550749361 (subtree: don't fuss with PATH, 2021-04-27), `git
subtree` was broken thoroughly on Windows.

The reason is that it assumes Unix semantics, where `PATH` is
colon-separated, and it assumes that `$GIT_EXEC_PATH:` is a verbatim
prefix of `$PATH`. Neither are true, the latter in particular because
`GIT_EXEC_PATH` is a Windows-style path, while `PATH` is a Unix-style
path list.

Let's make extra certain that `$GIT_EXEC_PATH` and the first component
of `$PATH` refer to different entities before erroring out.

We do that by using the `test <path1> -ef <path2>` command that verifies
that the inode of `<path1>` and of `<path2>` is the same.

Sadly, this construct is non-portable, according to
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/test.html.
However, it does not matter in practice because we still first look
whether `$GIT_EXEC_PREFIX` is string-identical to the first component of
`$PATH`. This will give us the expected result everywhere but in Git for
Windows, and Git for Windows' own Bash _does_ handle the `-ef` operator.

Just in case that we _do_ need to show the error message _and_ are
running in a shell that lacks support for `-ef`, we simply suppress the
error output for that part.

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/3260

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-06-15 11:38:26 +09:00
..
buildsystems Merge branch 'jh/simple-ipc-sans-pthread' 2021-05-22 18:29:01 +09:00
coccinelle Merge branch 'rs/xcalloc-takes-nelem-first' 2021-03-19 15:25:39 -07:00
completion contrib/completion: fix zsh completion regression from 59d85a2a05 2021-06-02 12:49:40 +09:00
contacts
credential contrib/credential/netrc: work outside a repo 2019-12-20 12:40:52 -08:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: correctly match blank lines for flush 2020-09-21 22:33:28 -07:00
emacs
examples
fast-import import-tars: ignore the global PAX header 2020-03-24 14:39:47 -07:00
git-jump
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git
hooks multimail: fix a few simple spelling errors 2019-11-10 16:00:55 +09:00
long-running-filter
mw-to-git remote-mediawiki: use "sh" to eliminate unquoted commands 2020-09-21 12:37:38 -07:00
persistent-https
remote-helpers
stats
subtree subtree: fix the GIT_EXEC_PATH sanity check to work on Windows 2021-06-15 11:38:26 +09:00
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode
vscode
workdir
coverage-diff.sh
git-resurrect.sh contrib/git-resurrect.sh: use hash-agnostic OID pattern 2020-10-08 11:48:56 -07:00
README
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh

Contributed Software

Although these pieces are available as part of the official git
source tree, they are in somewhat different status.  The
intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them,
and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved
faster.

I am not expecting to touch these myself that much.  As far as
my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are
owned by their respective primary authors.  I am willing to help
if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners"
have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to
fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree
owners.  IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for
enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so
just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch.  If
you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be
first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author
should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer).
This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a
lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
drill.

I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area
to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory.  On
the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
and inactive ones from time to time.

If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
there are some general interests (it does not have to be a
list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN
repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport),
submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your
stuff there.

-jc