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From: b2d0e4f321 (ci: bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7, 2026-10-05) (58f6c53ccb..b2d0e4f321)

Resolved: 78e54cb (fast-import: drop the six size casts in the object-read paths, 2026-06-05)

preserved pending commit/tag lookup while widening object-read sizes to size_t

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  • 1: 78e54cb ! 1: 6bedfdc fast-import: drop the six size casts in the object-read paths

    @@ builtin/fast-import.c: static void parse_from_existing(struct branch *b)
  		oidclr(&b->branch_tree.versions[1].oid, the_repository->hash_algo);
  	} else {
 -		unsigned long size;
--		size_t size_st = 0;
 +		size_t size;
  		char *buf;
+ 		struct object_entry *e = find_object(&b->oid);
  
- 		buf = odb_read_object_peeled(the_repository->objects, &b->oid,
--					     OBJ_COMMIT, &size_st, &b->oid);
--		size = cast_size_t_to_ulong(size_st);
-+					     OBJ_COMMIT, &size, &b->oid);
+@@ builtin/fast-import.c: static void parse_from_existing(struct branch *b)
+ 		if (e && e->type == OBJ_COMMIT && e->pack_id != MAX_PACK_ID) {
+ 			buf = gfi_unpack_entry(e, &size);
+ 		} else {
+-			size_t size_st = 0;
+ 			buf = odb_read_object_peeled(the_repository->objects, &b->oid,
+-						     OBJ_COMMIT, &size_st, &b->oid);
+-			size = cast_size_t_to_ulong(size_st);
++						     OBJ_COMMIT, &size, &b->oid);
+ 		}
  		parse_from_commit(b, buf, size);
  		free(buf);
- 	}
 @@ builtin/fast-import.c: static int parse_objectish(struct fast_import_state *state,
  		if (!oideq(&b->oid, &oe->idx.oid)) {
  			oidcpy(&b->oid, &oe->idx.oid);

To: 6d449d71b0 (ci: bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7, 2026-10-05) (f322e0d481..6d449d71b0)

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ariellourenco and others added 30 commits October 15, 2026 02:57
@ariellourenco Git for Windows Build Agent
Fallback to AppData if XDG_CONFIG_HOME is unset
381afce 
In order to be a better Windows citizenship, Git should
save its configuration files on AppData folder. This can
enables git configuration files be replicated between machines
using the same Microsoft account logon which would reduce the
friction of setting up Git on new systems. Therefore, if
%APPDATA%\Git\config exists, we use it; otherwise
$HOME/.config/git/config is used.

Signed-off-by: Ariel Lourenco <ariellourenco@users.noreply.github.com>
Jeff Hostetler @derrickstolee Git for Windows Build Agent
survey: stub in new experimental 'git-survey' command
27b50dc 
Start work on a new 'git survey' command to scan the repository
for monorepo performance and scaling problems.  The goal is to
measure the various known "dimensions of scale" and serve as a
foundation for adding additional measurements as we learn more
about Git monorepo scaling problems.

The initial goal is to complement the scanning and analysis performed
by the GO-based 'git-sizer' (https://github.com/github/git-sizer) tool.
It is hoped that by creating a builtin command, we may be able to take
advantage of internal Git data structures and code that is not
accessible from GO to gain further insight into potential scaling
problems.

Co-authored-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Jeff Hostetler Git for Windows Build Agent
survey: add command line opts to select references
f271c55 
By default we will scan all references in "refs/heads/", "refs/tags/"
and "refs/remotes/".

Add command line opts let the use ask for all refs or a subset of them
and to include a detached HEAD.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
@derrickstolee Git for Windows Build Agent
survey: start pretty printing data in table form
0386739 
When 'git survey' provides information to the user, this will be presented
in one of two formats: plaintext and JSON. The JSON implementation will be
delayed until the functionality is complete for the plaintext format.

The most important parts of the plaintext format are headers specifying the
different sections of the report and tables providing concreted data.

Create a custom table data structure that allows specifying a list of
strings for the row values. When printing the table, check each column for
the maximum width so we can create a table of the correct size from the
start.

The table structure is designed to be flexible to the different kinds of
output that will be implemented in future changes.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
diff: stop truncating the deflated-binary-diff size on Windows
439c196 
Continue the size_t evacuation around large object handling: with
deflate_it() and the locals around it widened, the
cast_size_t_to_ulong() shim the prior delta_delta() widening had to
leave behind in emit_binary_diff_body() goes away. deflate_it() is
file-static; the only callers are the two in emit_binary_diff_body()
already touched here.

emit_diff_symbol() formats the resulting sizes via uintmax_t / %"PRIuMAX",
so the diff output is not affected; only the per-process upper bound
on a binary patch chunk that this function can address grows beyond
4 GiB on Windows.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@derrickstolee Git for Windows Build Agent
survey: add object count summary
515284f 
At the moment, nothing is obvious about the reason for the use of the
path-walk API, but this will become more prevelant in future iterations. For
now, use the path-walk API to sum up the counts of each kind of object.

For example, this is the reachable object summary output for my local repo:

REACHABLE OBJECT SUMMARY
========================
Object Type |  Count
------------+-------
       Tags |   1343
    Commits | 179344
      Trees | 314350
      Blobs | 184030

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
repo: split annotated tags out from total tag count in structure
f1d2c42 
Mirror what git survey already reports: lightweight tags
(pointing straight at a commit/tree/blob) and annotated tags
(pointing at an OBJ_TAG that is itself stored as a separate
object) are different things in many monorepo contexts, and one
of the differences git survey users routinely care about. Add
an annotated_tags counter to struct ref_stats, populate it in
count_references() by peeking at the ref OID's object type, and
expose it as a sub-row under Tags in the table output and as
references.tags.annotated.count in the machine-readable formats.

Step toward pivoting the standalone git survey command onto
git repo structure; this fills the first of the four feature
gaps documented in the assessment.

Tests in t1901 widened to assert the new row and key.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
convert: widen gather_convert_stats() helpers to size_t
7ba6304 
Prep for the upcoming read_blob_data_from_index() widening, whose
callers in convert.c feed the size they receive straight into these
two helpers. Both are file-static, so the change is contained.

Also fixes a small pre-existing narrowing on the get_wt_convert_stats_ascii()
path, where strbuf.len (size_t) was passed to a unsigned long
parameter.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@derrickstolee Git for Windows Build Agent
survey: summarize total sizes by object type
2a50ac2 
Now that we have explored objects by count, we can expand that a bit more to
summarize the data for the on-disk and inflated size of those objects. This
information is helpful for diagnosing both why disk space (and perhaps
clone or fetch times) is growing but also why certain operations are slow
because the inflated size of the abstract objects that must be processed is
so large.

Note: zlib-ng is slightly more efficient even at those small sizes. Even
between zlib versions, there are slight differences in compression. To
accommodate for that in the tests, not the exact numbers but some rough
approximations are validated (the test should validate `git survey`,
after all, not zlib).

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
repo: filter the structure scope via --ref-filter=<pattern>
5a026ab 
`git repo structure` walks every reference enumerated by
`refs_for_each_ref()` and feeds each reference's tip into the path
walk that produces the object counts. There is no way to scope the
inquiry to a subset of refs, even though that is the most common
need when an operator is investigating what part of the history is
driving cost: only branches, only release tags, only one remote's
view, etc.

Add a single `--ref-filter=<pattern>` option that, when given,
restricts both the reference count and the object walk to refs whose
full name matches one of the patterns. The option is repeatable;
multiple patterns form a union, so `--ref-filter='refs/heads/*'
--ref-filter='refs/tags/v*'` includes local branches and tags whose
short name starts with `v`. Patterns use `wildmatch()` with
`WM_PATHNAME` semantics so a `*` does not cross `/`, matching the
convention used by `git for-each-ref` positional arguments.

Choosing a single flexible filter, rather than a proliferation of
per-kind flags like `--branches`, `--tags`, `--remotes`, keeps the
option surface small and lets the same mechanism express
narrow selections the per-kind flags could not, such as "only release
tags" (`'refs/tags/v*'`) or "only one remote's branches"
(`'refs/remotes/origin/*'`). Without `--ref-filter`, behaviour is
unchanged: every ref `refs_for_each_ref()` enumerates contributes.

Both the reference counter and the path-walk seeding (via
`add_pending_oid()`) sit on the same callback, so an early return
when no pattern matches naturally excludes a ref from both. No
separate object-walk machinery is needed.

Cover the two interesting code paths with tests in t1901: a single
filter narrowing to branches, and two filters unioning to include
both branches and tags.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
read-cache: stop truncating index blob sizes on Windows
fe9d629 
Continue the size_t evacuation. read_blob_data_from_index() reads
the blob through the size_t odb_read_object() API but writes the
size back through an unsigned long out-parameter, silently
truncating anything past 4 GiB on Windows. Widen the out-parameter,
drop the cast_size_t_to_ulong() shim, and move the matching locals
in the two convert.c callers and the one in attr.c. Their
downstream consumers (gather_convert_stats() widened in the prior
commit and read_attr_from_buf() already size_t) take the new type
directly.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@derrickstolee Git for Windows Build Agent
survey: show progress during object walk
739ce9d 
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
repo: report top-N paths by count, disk, and inflated size in structure
6758814 
`git survey` distinguishes itself from `git repo structure` largely by
its path-level reporting: in addition to whole-repo totals it lists the
paths whose object histories dominate the repository, ranked by raw
count, on-disk size, and inflated size, separately for trees and blobs.
That is often the most actionable output from `git survey`, since it
points an operator at the directories and files that should be reviewed
for cleanup, sparse-checkout exclusion, or rewriting.

`git repo structure` already drives the same path-walk traversal that
`git survey` uses to gather its per-path numbers; the callback simply
discards the path. Aggregate per-(path, type) summaries inside that
existing callback and add a bounded, descending-sorted "top-N" table
keyed by each of the three axes. Gate the feature behind a new
`--top=<n>` option, defaulting to 0, so unadorned invocations are
unaffected and pay no extra work for the top-N tracking.

Mirror the sort and eviction strategy from `builtin/survey.c`: keep an
array of at most N entries sorted from largest to smallest, walk it
from the bottom on each candidate, and shift entries down when a new
one belongs. Compared to `builtin/survey.c`, drop the void-pointer
indirection in the table data, type the comparator's arguments, and
fold the trivial comparators into the `(a > b) - (a < b)` idiom.

For the human-readable `table` output, extend the existing nested
bullet layout with two new top-level sections, `* Top trees` and
`* Top blobs`, each containing three sub-tables (`Top by count`,
`Top by disk size`, `Top by inflated size`). The path becomes the row
name and the relevant scalar becomes the value, reusing
`stats_table_count_addf` and `stats_table_size_addf` so units and
column alignment match the rest of the table.

For the `lines`/`nul` key-value formats, emit one
`objects.<type>.top.by_<axis>.<rank>.path=<path>` entry alongside an
`objects.<type>.top.by_<axis>.<rank>.<axis>=<value>` entry per ranked
path, so consumers can dispatch by axis without parsing the schema.
The root tree's path is the empty string as produced by the path-walk
machinery; preserve that as-is to stay faithful to the upstream
representation rather than fabricating a placeholder.

This is the first piece of folding `git survey`'s functionality into
`git repo structure`. Subsequent commits will add the corresponding
configuration knob and, eventually, turn `git survey` into a thin
deprecated shim over `git repo structure`.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
mingw: make sure errno is set correctly when socket operations fail
4bdf57f 
The winsock2 library provides functions that work on different data
types than file descriptors, therefore we wrap them.

But that is not the only difference: they also do not set `errno` but
expect the callers to enquire about errors via `WSAGetLastError()`.

Let's translate that into appropriate `errno` values whenever the socket
operations fail so that Git's code base does not have to change its
expectations.

This closes git-for-windows#2404

Helped-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
xdiff-interface: widen buffer_is_binary() size parameter to size_t
d602bdc 
Prep for the widenings of its callers, where size-receiving locals
will become size_t (combine-diff's result_size in the immediately
following commit, struct diff_filespec.size in a later topic). Body
caps the parameter at 8000 anyway, so the type change is mechanical.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@derrickstolee Jeff Hostetler Git for Windows Build Agent
survey: add ability to track prioritized lists
6b00c16 
In future changes, we will make use of these methods. The intention is to
keep track of the top contributors according to some metric. We don't want
to store all of the entries and do a sort at the end, so track a
constant-size table and remove rows that get pushed out depending on the
chosen sorting algorithm.

Co-authored-by: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Signed-off-by; Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
t1901: cover the --top option of git repo structure
21e8d28 
The preceding commit added `--top=<n>` to `git repo structure`,
reporting the top-N paths per type ranked by count, on-disk size, and
inflated size. Cover the three behaviors that matter for that option:

  * Without `--top`, the key-value output emits no `top.*` keys, so
    existing parsers stay unaffected.

  * `--top=N` produces exactly N ranked entries on each of the six
    `objects.<type>.top.by_<axis>` axes (count/disk_size/inflated_size
    crossed with trees/blobs), and a constructed input where one blob
    is several orders of magnitude bigger than the other lets us
    assert the ordering on the disk-size and inflated-size axes.

  * A negative `--top` is rejected with a non-zero exit and a message
    naming the constraint, so a typo cannot silently degrade into the
    default zero.

Avoid grep patterns starting with `--`; grep would parse the leading
double dash as an option terminator.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@rimrul Git for Windows Build Agent
compat/mingw: handle WSA errors in strerror
696133c 
We map WSAGetLastError() errors to errno errors in winsock_error_to_errno(),
but the MSVC strerror() implementation only produces "Unknown error" for
most of them. Produce some more meaningful error messages in these
cases.

Our builds for ARM64 link against the newer UCRT strerror() that does know
these errors, so we won't change the strerror() used there.

The wording of the messages is copied from glibc strerror() messages.

Reported-by: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho @mjcheetham Git for Windows Build Agent
t5563: verify that NTLM authentication works
db4a590 
Although NTLM authentication is considered weak (extending even to
NTLMv2, which purportedly allows brute-forcing reasonably complex
8-character passwords in a matter of days, given ample compute
resources), it _is_ one of the authentication methods supported by
libcurl.

Note: The added test case *cannot* reuse the existing `custom_auth`
facility. The reason is that that facility is backed by an NPH script
("No Parse Headers"), which does not allow handling the 3-phase NTLM
authentication correctly (in my hands, the NPH script would not even be
called upon the Type 3 message, a "200 OK" would be returned, but no
headers, let alone the `git http-backend` output as payload). Having a
separate NTLM authentication script makes the exact workings clearer and
more readable, anyway.

Co-authored-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@zcube Git for Windows Build Agent
mingw: introduce code to detect whether we're inside a Windows container
bae95e1 
This will come in handy in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@piscisaureus Git for Windows Build Agent
Win32: symlink: move phantom symlink creation to a separate function
4426545 
Signed-off-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
combine-diff: stop truncating combined-diff blob sizes on Windows
de6b806 
Continue the size_t evacuation. With buffer_is_binary() widened
in the prior commit, every consumer that the size flows into in
combine-diff.c is size_t-ready, so widen grab_blob()'s out-param
outright and move the matching locals at its three call sites
together. grab_blob()'s body collapses to a direct
odb_read_object(&size) since the bridge variable is no longer
needed.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@derrickstolee Git for Windows Build Agent
survey: add report of "largest" paths
464827f 
Since we are already walking our reachable objects using the path-walk API,
let's now collect lists of the paths that contribute most to different
metrics. Specifically, we care about

 * Number of versions.
 * Total size on disk.
 * Total inflated size (no delta or zlib compression).

This information can be critical to discovering which parts of the
repository are causing the most growth, especially on-disk size. Different
packing strategies might help compress data more efficiently, but the toal
inflated size is a representation of the raw size of all snapshots of those
paths. Even when stored efficiently on disk, that size represents how much
information must be processed to complete a command such as 'git blame'.

The exact disk size seems to be not quite robust enough for testing, as
could be seen by the `linux-musl-meson` job consistently failing, possibly
because of zlib-ng deflates differently: t8100.4(git survey
(default)) was failing with a symptom like this:

   TOTAL OBJECT SIZES BY TYPE
   ===============================================
   Object Type | Count | Disk Size | Inflated Size
   ------------+-------+-----------+--------------
  -    Commits |    10 |      1523 |          2153
  +    Commits |    10 |      1528 |          2153
         Trees |    10 |       495 |          1706
         Blobs |    10 |       191 |           101
  -       Tags |     4 |       510 |           528
  +       Tags |     4 |       547 |           528

This means: the disk size is unlikely something we can verify robustly.
Since zlib-ng seems to increase the disk size of the tags from 528 to
547, we cannot even assume that the disk size is always smaller than the
inflated size. We will most likely want to either skip verifying the
disk size altogether, or go for some kind of fuzzy matching, say, by
replacing `s/ 1[45][0-9][0-9] / ~1.5k /` and `s/ [45][0-9][0-9] / ~½k /`
or something like that.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
repo: read the --top default from repo.structure.top
b07ee1a 
`git survey` exposes its `--top` default via `survey.top` so that a
site or per-repository operator can switch the detail tables on once
and have every subsequent invocation include them. Mirror that
ergonomics for `git repo structure` so that, as `git survey`'s
functionality is folded into `git repo structure`, the configuration
side of the migration story stays equivalent.

Add a small `git_config_int` callback bound to `repo.structure.top`
and invoke it before `parse_options()`, so a `--top=<N>` on the
command line cleanly overrides the configured default (including
`--top=0` to opt out of the detail tables when configuration enables
them). Reject negative configured values with the same wording as the
command-line guard, since `git_config_int()` happily returns negative
integers.

Document the new variable in a fresh `Documentation/config/repo.adoc`
and wire it into the alphabetical includes in `Documentation/config.adoc`
between `repack.adoc` and `rerere.adoc`. Cover the precedence
behaviour with a t1901 test: a configured value enables the tables by
default, and a command-line `--top=0` suppresses them again.

Note that the reported paths respect the `core.quotePath` setting.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@rimrul Git for Windows Build Agent
compat/mingw: drop outdated comment
ed5ecbf 
This comment has been true for the longest time; The combination of the
two preceding commits made it incorrect, so let's drop that comment.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
http: disallow NTLM authentication by default
ef52a30 
NTLM authentication is relatively weak. This is the case even with the
default setting of modern Windows versions, where NTLMv1 and LanManager
are disabled and only NTLMv2 is enabled: NTLMv2 hashes of even
reasonably complex 8-character passwords can be broken in a matter of
days, given enough compute resources.

Even worse: On Windows, NTLM authentication uses Security Support
Provider Interface ("SSPI"), which provides the credentials without
requiring the user to type them in.

Which means that an attacker could talk an unsuspecting user into
cloning from a server that is under the attacker's control and extracts
the user's NTLMv2 hash without their knowledge.

For that reason, let's disallow NTLM authentication by default.

NTLM authentication is quite simple to set up, though, and therefore
there are still some on-prem Azure DevOps setups out there whose users
and/or automation rely on this type of authentication. To give them an
escape hatch, introduce the `http.<url>.allowNTLMAuth` config setting
that can be set to `true` to opt back into using NTLM for a specific
remote repository.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@kblees Git for Windows Build Agent
mingw: Support git_terminal_prompt with more terminals
80175f5 
The `git_terminal_prompt()` function expects the terminal window to be
attached to a Win32 Console. However, this is not the case with terminal
windows other than `cmd.exe`'s, e.g. with MSys2's own `mintty`.

Non-cmd terminals such as `mintty` still have to have a Win32 Console
to be proper console programs, but have to hide the Win32 Console to
be able to provide more flexibility (such as being resizeable not only
vertically but also horizontally). By writing to that Win32 Console,
`git_terminal_prompt()` manages only to send the prompt to nowhere and
to wait for input from a Console to which the user has no access.

This commit introduces a function specifically to support `mintty` -- or
other terminals that are compatible with MSys2's `/dev/tty` emulation. We
use the `TERM` environment variable as an indicator for that: if the value
starts with "xterm" (such as `mintty`'s "xterm_256color"), we prefer to
let `xterm_prompt()` handle the user interaction.

The most prominent user of `git_terminal_prompt()` is certainly
`git-remote-https.exe`. It is an interesting use case because both
`stdin` and `stdout` are redirected when Git calls said executable, yet
it still wants to access the terminal.

When running inside a `mintty`, the terminal is not accessible to the
`git-remote-https.exe` program, though, because it is a MinGW program
and the `mintty` terminal is not backed by a Win32 console.

To solve that problem, we simply call out to the shell -- which is an
*MSys2* program and can therefore access `/dev/tty`.

Helped-by: nalla <nalla@hamal.uberspace.de>
Signed-off-by: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@zcube Git for Windows Build Agent
mingw: when running in a Windows container, try to rename() harder
44f0fab 
It is a known issue that a rename() can fail with an "Access denied"
error at times, when copying followed by deleting the original file
works. Let's just fall back to that behavior.

Signed-off-by: JiSeop Moon <zcube@zcube.kr>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Introduce helper to create symlinks that knows about index_state
32cb814 
On Windows, symbolic links actually have a type depending on the target:
it can be a file or a directory.

In certain circumstances, this poses problems, e.g. when a symbolic link
is supposed to point into a submodule that is not checked out, so there
is no way for Git to auto-detect the type.

To help with that, we will add support over the course of the next
commits to specify that symlink type via the Git attributes. This
requires an index_state, though, something that Git for Windows'
`symlink()` replacement cannot know about because the function signature
is defined by the POSIX standard and not ours to change.

So let's introduce a helper function to create symbolic links that
*does* know about the index_state.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
diff: widen textconv_object() size out-param to size_t
6e9e25c 
Continue the size_t evacuation. textconv_object() fills its
out-parameter from fill_textconv()'s size_t return through an
unsigned long*; widen the API to match, then take advantage of the
new shape where callers can.

cat-file's 'c' and batch-mode 'c' branches lose their size_ul
bridge variables (one site becomes a direct call, the other
collapses an if/else into a single negated condition that reads as
"try textconv, fall back to a raw read").

blame.c likewise drops the file_size_st bridge in fill_origin_blob()
and hoists final_buf_size_st to bracket both branches in
setup_scoreboard(). The latter keeps a cast_size_t_to_ulong() shim
because struct blame_scoreboard.final_buf_size is still unsigned
long; that field is its own topic.

log.c just widens its local from unsigned long to size_t.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
jeffhostetler and others added 30 commits October 15, 2026 02:59
@jeffhostetler Git for Windows Build Agent
compat/fsmonitor/fsm-*-win32: support long paths
1f68757 
Update wchar_t buffers to use MAX_LONG_PATH instead of MAX_PATH and call
xutftowcs_long_path() in the Win32 backend source files.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
t5813: allow for $PWD to be a Windows path
e28387b 
Git for Windows uses MSYS2's Bash to run the test suite, which comes
with benefits but also at a heavy price: on the plus side, MSYS2's
POSIX emulation layer allows us to continue pretending that we are on a
Unix system, e.g. use Unix paths instead of Windows ones, yet this is
bought at a rather noticeable performance penalty.

There *are* some more native ports of Unix shells out there, though,
most notably BusyBox-w32's ash. These native ports do not use any POSIX
emulation layer (or at most a *very* thin one, choosing to avoid
features such as fork() that are expensive to emulate on Windows), and
they use native Windows paths (usually with forward slashes instead of
backslashes, which is perfectly legal in almost all use cases).

And here comes the problem: with a $PWD looking like, say,
C:/git-sdk-64/usr/src/git/t/trash directory.t5813-proto-disable-ssh
Git's test scripts get quite a bit confused, as their assumptions have
been shattered. Not only does this path contain a colon (oh no!), it
also does not start with a slash.

This is a problem e.g. when constructing a URL as t5813 does it:
ssh://remote$PWD. Not only is it impossible to separate the "host" from
the path with a $PWD as above, even prefixing $PWD by a slash won't
work, as /C:/git-sdk-64/... is not a valid path.

As a workaround, detect when $PWD does not start with a slash on
Windows, and simply strip the drive prefix, using an obscure feature of
Windows paths: if an absolute Windows path starts with a slash, it is
implicitly prefixed by the drive prefix of the current directory. As we
are talking about the current directory here, anyway, that strategy
works.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
git-gui--askyesno (mingw): use Git for Windows' icon, if available
b702033 
For additional GUI goodness.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@mathstuf Git for Windows Build Agent
clean: suggest using core.longPaths if paths are too long to remove
a0152e7 
On Windows, git repositories may have extra files which need cleaned
(e.g., a build directory) that may be arbitrarily deep. Suggest using
`core.longPaths` if such situations are encountered.

Fixes: git-for-windows#2715
Signed-off-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
t9200: skip tests when $PWD contains a colon
ac8f17d 
On Windows, the current working directory is pretty much guaranteed to
contain a colon. If we feed that path to CVS, it mistakes it for a
separator between host and port, though.

This has not been a problem so far because Git for Windows uses MSYS2's
Bash using a POSIX emulation layer that also pretends that the current
directory is a Unix path (at least as long as we're in a shell script).

However, that is rather limiting, as Git for Windows also explores other
ports of other Unix shells. One of those is BusyBox-w32's ash, which is
a native port (i.e. *not* using any POSIX emulation layer, and certainly
not emulating Unix paths).

So let's just detect if there is a colon in $PWD and punt in that case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Describe Git for Windows' architecture
a884b2d 
The Git for Windows project has grown quite complex over the years,
certainly much more complex than during the first years where the
`msysgit.git` repository was abusing Git for package management purposes
and the `git/git` fork was called `4msysgit.git`.

Let's describe the status quo in a thorough way.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Add an AGENTS.md file to help with AI-assisted debugging/development
57578f6 
In this time and age, AI is everywhere. However, it's sometimes not very
easy to use. For green-field projects it works quite a bit better than
for existing legacy projects. And Git's source code is _quite_ as legacy
code as they come... 😁

Now, the only way how AI can be used efficiently with legacy code
is by providing enough information by way of prompt context for the
AI to have a chance to make any sense of the code. The structure and
the architecture is, after all, not designed for AI, but rather the
opposite: By virtue of having grown organically over two decades, there
is no design that AI coding models would readily grasp.

So here is a document that describes all kinds of aspects about this
project. The idea is to help AI by providing information that it does
not have ingrained in its weights. The idea is to provide information
that a human prompter might take for granted, but no coding model will
have been trained on specifically.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.5
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Modify the Code of Conduct for Git for Windows
1e1e556 
The Git project followed Git for Windows' lead and added their Code of
Conduct, based on the Contributor Covenant v1.4, later updated to v2.0.

We adapt it slightly to Git for Windows.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Merge branch 'gitk-and-git-gui-patches'
1b2634c 
These are Git for Windows' Git GUI and gitk patches. We will have to
decide at some point what to do about them, but that's a little lower
priority (as Git GUI seems to be unmaintained for the time being, and
the gitk maintainer keeps a very low profile on the Git mailing list,
too).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@derrickstolee Git for Windows Build Agent
CONTRIBUTING.md: add guide for first-time contributors
53adeb9 
Getting started contributing to Git can be difficult on a Windows
machine. CONTRIBUTING.md contains a guide to getting started, including
detailed steps for setting up build tools, running tests, and
submitting patches to upstream.

[includes an example by Pratik Karki how to submit v2, v3, v4, etc.]

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Merge branch 'long-paths'
8a6e0fd
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
README.md: Add a Windows-specific preamble
942c8b1 
Includes touch-ups by 마누엘, Philip Oakley and 孙卓识.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Partially un-revert "editor: save and reset terminal after calling ED…
da2db8d 
…ITOR"

In e3f7e01 (Revert "editor: save and reset terminal after calling
EDITOR", 2021-11-22), we reverted the commit wholesale where the
terminal state would be saved and restored before/after calling an
editor.

The reverted commit was intended to fix a problem with Windows Terminal
where simply calling `vi` would cause problems afterwards.

To fix the problem addressed by the revert, but _still_ keep the problem
with Windows Terminal fixed, let's revert the revert, with a twist: we
restrict the save/restore _specifically_ to the case where `vi` (or
`vim`) is called, and do not do the same for any other editor.

This should still catch the majority of the cases, and will bridge the
time until the original patch is re-done in a way that addresses all
concerns.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Merge branch 'busybox-w32'
6142bcd 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@shiftkey Git for Windows Build Agent
Add an issue template
875115e 
With improvements by Clive Chan, Adric Norris, Ben Bodenmiller and
Philip Oakley.

Helped-by: Clive Chan <cc@clive.io>
Helped-by: Adric Norris <landstander668@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Ben Bodenmiller <bbodenmiller@hotmail.com>
Helped-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Brendan Forster <brendan@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
reset: reinstate support for the deprecated --stdin option
10b3aa2 
The `--stdin` option was a well-established paradigm in other commands,
therefore we implemented it in `git reset` for use by Visual Studio.

Unfortunately, upstream Git decided that it is time to introduce
`--pathspec-from-file` instead.

To keep backwards-compatibility for some grace period, we therefore
reinstate the `--stdin` option on top of the `--pathspec-from-file`
option, but mark it firmly as deprecated.

Helped-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Helped-by: Matthew John Cheetham <mjcheetham@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Merge branch 'un-revert-editor-save-and-reset'
9b01acc 
A fix for calling `vim` in Windows Terminal caused a regression and was
reverted. We partially un-revert this, to get the fix again.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Philip Oakley Git for Windows Build Agent
Modify the GitHub Pull Request template (to reflect Git for Windows)
2575683 
Git for Windows accepts pull requests; Core Git does not. Therefore we
need to adjust the template (because it only matches core Git's
project management style, not ours).

Also: direct Git for Windows enhancements to their contributions page,
space out the text for easy reading, and clarify that the mailing list
is plain text, not HTML.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho @rimrul Git for Windows Build Agent
Add a GitHub workflow to monitor component updates
876620a 
Rather than using private IFTTT Applets that send mails to this
maintainer whenever a new version of a Git for Windows component was
released, let's use the power of GitHub workflows to make this process
publicly visible.

This workflow monitors the Atom/RSS feeds, and opens a ticket whenever a
new version was released.

Note: Bash sometimes releases multiple patched versions within a few
minutes of each other (i.e. 5.1p1 through 5.1p4, 5.0p15 and 5.0p16). The
MSYS2 runtime also has a similar system. We can address those patches as
a group, so we shouldn't get multiple issues about them.

Note further: We're not acting on newlib releases, OpenSSL alphas, Perl
release candidates or non-stable Perl releases. There's no need to open
issues about them.

Co-authored-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@vdye Git for Windows Build Agent
fsmonitor: reintroduce core.useBuiltinFSMonitor
3c66be9 
Reintroduce the 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor' config setting (originally added
in 0a756b2 (fsmonitor: config settings are repository-specific,
2021-03-05)) after its removal from the upstream version of FSMonitor.

Upstream, the 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor' setting was rendered obsolete by
"overloading" the 'core.fsmonitor' setting to take a boolean value. However,
several applications (e.g., 'scalar') utilize the original config setting,
so it should be preserved for a deprecation period before complete removal:

* if 'core.fsmonitor' is a boolean, the user is correctly using the new
  config syntax; do not use 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor'.
* if 'core.fsmonitor' is unspecified, use 'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor'.
* if 'core.fsmonitor' is a path, override and use the builtin FSMonitor if
  'core.useBuiltinFSMonitor' is 'true'; otherwise, use the FSMonitor hook
  indicated by the path.

Additionally, for this deprecation period, advise users to switch to using
'core.fsmonitor' to specify their use of the builtin FSMonitor.

Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Merge branch 'phase-out-reset-stdin'
0776da5 
This topic branch re-adds the deprecated --stdin/-z options to `git
reset`. Those patches were overridden by a different set of options in
the upstream Git project before we could propose `--stdin`.

We offered this in MinGit to applications that wanted a safer way to
pass lots of pathspecs to Git, and these applications will need to be
adjusted.

Instead of `--stdin`, `--pathspec-from-file=-` should be used, and
instead of `-z`, `--pathspec-file-nul`.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
SECURITY.md: document Git for Windows' policies
206295e 
This is the recommended way on GitHub to describe policies revolving around
security issues and about supported versions.

Helped-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
dependabot: help keeping GitHub Actions versions up to date
4d6262b 
See https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/keeping-your-actions-up-to-date-with-dependabot#enabling-dependabot-version-updates-for-actions for details.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Merge branch 'deprecate-core.useBuiltinFSMonitor'
9a58ab6 
Originally introduced as `core.useBuiltinFSMonitor` in Git for Windows
and developed, improved and stabilized there, the built-in FSMonitor
only made it into upstream Git (after unnecessarily long hemming and
hawing and throwing overly perfectionist style review sticks into the
spokes) as `core.fsmonitor = true`.

In Git for Windows, with this topic branch, we re-introduce the
now-obsolete config setting, with warnings suggesting to existing users
how to switch to the new config setting, with the intention to
ultimately drop the patch at some stage.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
ci: only run the expensive tests in the Windows tests for now
fe4fa47 
Upstream Git does not test their tags with the expensive set of tests,
so a couple of them seem quite broken for now, even so much as hanging
indefinitely.

It is outside of the responsibility of the Git for Windows project to
fix upstream's own tests for platforms other than Windows, so let's not
exercise them.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Merge pull request git-for-windows#2837 from dscho/monitor-component-…
0bdc457 
…updates

Start monitoring updates of Git for Windows' component in the open
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
mingw: let access() handle nul whether lower-case or not
cb5a3fa 
The special-casing of `NUL` in `mingw_access()` was added in
9160068 (msvc: avoid calling `access("NUL", flags)`, 2021-04-16)
because the Universal C Runtime's ("UCRT") `_waccess()` rejects `NUL` as
an invalid argument.

With the switch of GIt for Windows from the MSVCRT-based MINGW64 build
to the UCRT-based UCRT64 build in 2.56.0, any spelling other than
lowercase `nul` now reaches `_waccess()` and fails. Windows device names
are case-insensitive, and `NUL` is the canonical spelling, but even
`Nul` is allowed, so a case-insensitive comparison is needed.

Note that we cannot use `fspathcmp()` here, as we would usually do: This
function is in the code path when reading the config, and
`core.ignoreCase` would therefore not be set correctly yet e.g. when
running under `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=NUL`.

This fixes git-for-windows#6449

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Merge 'readme' into HEAD
c4f55ca 
Add a README.md for GitHub goodness.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
Allow GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL to be set to NUL (all upper-case) (git-fo…
d5bcdd9 
…r-windows#6450)

Currently, when running `GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=NUL git config --list`, it
fails with:

```
fatal: unable to access 'NUL': Invalid argument
```

The underlying reason is the different behavior of the C runtime used by
MINGW64 vs UCRT64. Let's accommodate for that.

This fixes git-for-windows#6449
@dscho Git for Windows Build Agent
ci: bump actions/setup-python from 6 to 7
6d449d7 
This bumps `actions/setup-python from version 6 to 7. The main change is
that this is now an ECMAScript Module, which bumps the minimum
requirements for GitHub Enterprise Server setups enough to warrant a
full major version bump.

Release notes: https://github.com/actions/setup-python/releases
Commits: actions/setup-python@v6...v7

Originally-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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