git/compat, branch v2.17.2

mingw: abort on invalid strftime formats

2018-03-19T17:53:17Z

On Windows, strftime() does not silently ignore invalid formats, but warns about them and then returns 0 and sets errno to EINVAL. Unfortunately, Git does not expect such a behavior, as it disagrees with strftime()'s semantics on Linux. As a consequence, Git misinterprets the return value 0 as "I need more space" and grows the buffer. As the larger buffer does not fix the format, the buffer grows and grows and grows until we are out of memory and abort. Ideally, we would switch off the parameter validation just for strftime(), but we cannot even override the invalid parameter handler via _set_thread_local_invalid_parameter_handler() using MINGW because that function is not declared. Even _set_invalid_parameter_handler(), which *is* declared, does not help, as it simply does... nothing. So let's just bite the bullet and override strftime() for MINGW and abort on an invalid format string. While this does not provide the best user experience, it is the best we can do. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fe06s4ak.aspx for more details. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/863 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'bp/fsmonitor'

2017-11-21T05:07:50Z

We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other operations that need to see which paths have been modified. * bp/fsmonitor: fsmonitor: preserve utf8 filenames in fsmonitor-watchman log fsmonitor: read entirety of watchman output fsmonitor: MINGW support for watchman integration fsmonitor: add a performance test fsmonitor: add a sample integration script for Watchman fsmonitor: add test cases for fsmonitor extension split-index: disable the fsmonitor extension when running the split index test fsmonitor: add a test tool to dump the index extension update-index: add fsmonitor support to update-index ls-files: Add support in ls-files to display the fsmonitor valid bit fsmonitor: add documentation for the fsmonitor extension. fsmonitor: teach git to optionally utilize a file system monitor to speed up detecting new or changed files. update-index: add a new --force-write-index option preload-index: add override to enable testing preload-index bswap: add 64 bit endianness helper get_be64

Merge branch 'tz/fsf-address-update'

2017-11-15T03:14:34Z

* tz/fsf-address-update: Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices

Replace Free Software Foundation address in license notices

2017-11-09T04:21:21Z

The mailing address for the FSF has changed over the years. Rather than updating the address across all files, refer readers to gnu.org, as the GNU GPL documentation now suggests for license notices. The mailing address is retained in the full license files (COPYING and LGPL-2.1). The old address is still present in t/diff-lib/COPYING. This is intentional, as the file is used in tests and the contents are not expected to change. Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

mingw: optionally redirect stderr/stdout via the same handle

2017-11-02T02:19:43Z

The "2>&1" notation in Powershell and in Unix shells implies that stderr is redirected to the same handle into which stdout is already written. Let's use this special value to allow the same trick with GIT_REDIRECT_STDERR and GIT_REDIRECT_STDOUT: if the former's value is `2>&1`, then stderr will simply be written to the same handle as stdout. The functionality was suggested by Jeff Hostetler. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

mingw: add experimental feature to redirect standard handles

2017-11-02T02:19:41Z

Particularly when calling Git from applications, such as Visual Studio's Team Explorer, it is important that stdin/stdout/stderr are closed properly. However, when spawning processes on Windows, those handles must be marked as inheritable if we want to use them, but that flag is a global flag and may very well be used by other spawned processes which then do not know to close those handles. Let's introduce a set of environment variables (GIT_REDIRECT_STDIN and friends) that specify paths to files, or even better, named pipes (which are similar to Unix sockets) and that are used by the spawned Git process. This helps work around above-mentioned issue: those named pipes will be opened in a non-inheritable way upon startup, and no handles are passed around (and therefore no inherited handles need to be closed by any spawned child). This feature shipped with Git for Windows (marked as experimental) since v2.11.0(2), so it has seen some serious testing in the meantime. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'ds/avoid-overflow-in-midpoint-computation'

2017-10-11T05:52:24Z

Code clean-up. * ds/avoid-overflow-in-midpoint-computation: cleanup: fix possible overflow errors in binary search

cleanup: fix possible overflow errors in binary search

2017-10-09T23:57:24Z

A common mistake when writing binary search is to allow possible integer overflow by using the simple average: mid = (min + max) / 2; Instead, use the overflow-safe version: mid = min + (max - min) / 2; This translation is safe since the operation occurs inside a loop conditioned on "min < max". The included changes were found using the following git grep: git grep '/ *2;' '*.c' Making this cleanup will prevent future review friction when a new binary search is contructed based on existing code. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee Reviewed-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'rb/compat-poll-fix'

2017-10-07T07:27:55Z

Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll emulation from the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop. * rb/compat-poll-fix: poll.c: always set revents, even if to zero

poll.c: always set revents, even if to zero

2017-09-29T09:33:22Z

Match what is done to pfd[i].revents when compute_revents() returns 0 to the upstream gnulib's commit d42461c3 ("poll: fixes for large fds", 2015-02-20). The revents field is set to 0, without incrementing the value rc to be returned from the function. The original code left the field to whatever random value the field was initialized to. This fixes occasional hangs in git-upload-pack on HPE NonStop. Signed-off-by: Randall S. Becker Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano