In order to enable greater user customisation of the SPARSE_FLAGS
variable, we introduce a new SP_EXTRA_FLAGS variable to use for
target specific settings. Without using the new variable, setting
the SPARSE_FLAGS on the 'make' command-line would also override the
value set by the target-specific rules in the Makefile (effectively
making them useless). Also, this enables the SP_EXTRA_FLAGS to be
used in the future for any other internal customisations, such as
for some platform specific values.
In addition, we initialise the SPARSE_FLAGS to the default (empty)
value using a conditional assignment (?=). This allows SPARSE_FLAGS
to be set from the environment as well as from the command-line.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An upcoming commit will change the semantics of the SPARSE_FLAGS
variable from an internal to a user only customisation variable.
The MinGW configuration section contains an obsolete setting for
this variable which was used (some years ago) to cater to an error
in the Win32 system header files. Since 'sparse' does not currently
support the MinGW platform, nobody on that platform can be relying
on this setting today. Remove this use of the SPARSE_FLAGS variable.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Until now, `git submodule summary` was always emitting 7-character
SHA-1s that have a higher chance of being ambiguous for larger
repositories. Use `git rev-parse --short` instead, which will
determine suitable short SHA-1 lengths.
When a submodule hasn't been initialized with "submodule init" or
not cloned, `git rev-parse` would not work in it yet; as a fallback,
use the original method of cutting at 7 hexdigits.
Signed-off-by: Sven van Haastregt <svenvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we write an alternate shallow file in update_shallow, we write it
into the lock file. The string stored in alternate_shallow_file is
copied from the lock file path, but it is freed the moment that the lock
file is closed, since we call strbuf_release to free that path.
This used to work, since we did not invoke git index-pack more than
once, but now that we do, we reuse the freed memory. Ensure we reset the
value to NULL to avoid using freed memory. git index-pack will read the
repository's shallow file, which will have been updated with the correct
information.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
`usage` tries to call $0, which might very well be "./doc-diff", so if
we `cd_to_toplevel` before calling `usage`, we'll end with an error to
the effect of "./doc-diff: not found" rather than a friendly `doc-diff
-h` output. This regressed in ad51743007 ("doc-diff: add --clean mode to
remove temporary working gunk", 2018-08-31) where we moved the call to
`cd_to_toplevel` to much earlier.
A general fix might be to teach git-sh-setup to save away the absolute
path for $0 and then use that, instead. I'm not aware of any portable
way of doing that, see, e.g., d2addc3b96 ("t7800: readlink may not be
available", 2016-05-31).
An early version of this patch moved `cd_to_toplevel` back to where it
was before ad51743007 and taught the "--clean" code to cd on its own.
But let's try instead to get rid of the cd-ing entirely. We don't really
need it and we can work with absolute paths instead. There's just one
use of $PWD that we need to adjust by simply dropping it.
Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The documentation saying that diff-tree didn't support anything except
literal prefixes hasn't been true since
d38f28093e ("tree_entry_interesting(): support wildcard matching",
2010-12-15), but this documentation was not updated at the time.
Since this command uses pathspecs like most other commands, there's no
need to show examples of how the various "cmd <revs> <paths>"
invocations work.
Furthermore, the "git diff-tree --abbrev 5319e4" example shown here
never worked. We'd ended up with that through a combination of
62b42d3487 ("docs: fix some antique example output", 2011-05-26) and
ac4e086929 ("Adjust core-git documentation to more recent Linus GIT.",
2005-05-05), but "git diff-tree <tree>" was always invalid.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This ensures that nothing breaks the basic functionality of describe for
bare repositories. Please note that --broken and --dirty need a working
tree.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Staudt <koraktor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We don't use NEED_WORK_TREE when running the git-describe builtin,
since you should be able to describe a commit even in a bare repository.
However, the --dirty flag does need a working tree. Since we don't call
setup_work_tree(), it uses whatever directory we happen to be in. That's
unlikely to match our index, meaning we'd say "dirty" even when the real
working tree is clean.
We can fix that by calling setup_work_tree() once we know that the user
has asked for --dirty.
The --broken option also needs a working tree. But because its
implementation calls git-diff-index we don‘t have to setup the working
tree in the git-describe process.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Staudt <koraktor@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before installing the necessary dependencies, our OSX build jobs run
'brew update --quiet'. This is problematic for two reasons:
- This '--quiet' flag apparently broke overnight, resulting in
errored builds:
+brew update --quiet
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles-portable-ruby/portable-ruby-2.3.7.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring portable-ruby-2.3.7.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
Usage: brew update_report [--preinstall]
The Ruby implementation of brew update. Never called manually.
--preinstall Run in 'auto-update' mode (faster, less
output).
-f, --force Override warnings and enable potentially
unsafe operations.
-d, --debug Display any debugging information.
-v, --verbose Make some output more verbose.
-h, --help Show this message.
Error: invalid option: --quiet
The command "ci/install-dependencies.sh" failed and exited with 1 during .
I belive that this breakage will be noticed and fixed soon-ish, so
we could probably just wait a bit for this issue to solve itself,
but:
- 'brew update --quiet' wasn't really quiet in the first place, as
it listed over about 2000 lines worth of available packages that
we absolutely don't care about, see e.g. one of the latest
'master' builds:
https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/486134962#L113
So drop this '--quiet' option and redirect 'brew update's standard
output to /dev/null to make it really quiet, thereby making the OSX
builds work again despite the above mentioned breakage.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The description of git-commit jumps right into the commit content, which
is important, but it fails to mention how the commit is "added" to the
repository. Update the first paragraph saying a bit more about branch
update to fill this gap.
While at there, add a couple linkgit references when the command is
first mentioned.
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"longest" is used to determine how many extra spaces we need to print
to keep the command description aligned. For the longest command, we
should print no extra space instead of one, or we'll get unaligned
output like this (notice the "checkout" line):
grow, mark and tweak your common history
branch List, create, or delete branches
checkout Switch branches or restore working tree files
commit Record changes to the repository
diff Show changes between commits, commit and ...
merge Join two or more development histories together
rebase Reapply commits on top of another base tip
tag Create, list, delete or verify a tag ...
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Test the new "ambiguous" result from cat-file --batch and
--batch-check. This is in t1512 instead of t1006 since
we need a repo with ambiguous object_id names.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users who want UTF-16 files in the working tree set the .gitattributes
like this:
test.txt working-tree-encoding=UTF-16
The unicode standard itself defines 3 allowed ways how to encode UTF-16.
The following 3 versions convert all back to 'g' 'i' 't' in UTF-8:
a) UTF-16, without BOM, big endian:
$ printf "\000g\000i\000t" | iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 | od -c
0000000 g i t
b) UTF-16, with BOM, little endian:
$ printf "\377\376g\000i\000t\000" | iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 | od -c
0000000 g i t
c) UTF-16, with BOM, big endian:
$ printf "\376\377\000g\000i\000t" | iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 | od -c
0000000 g i t
Git uses libiconv to convert from UTF-8 in the index into ITF-16 in the
working tree.
After a checkout, the resulting file has a BOM and is encoded in "UTF-16",
in the version (c) above.
This is what iconv generates, more details follow below.
iconv (and libiconv) can generate UTF-16, UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE:
d) UTF-16
$ printf 'git' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16 | od -c
0000000 376 377 \0 g \0 i \0 t
e) UTF-16LE
$ printf 'git' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16LE | od -c
0000000 g \0 i \0 t \0
f) UTF-16BE
$ printf 'git' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16BE | od -c
0000000 \0 g \0 i \0 t
There is no way to generate version (b) from above in a Git working tree,
but that is what some applications need.
(All fully unicode aware applications should be able to read all 3 variants,
but in practise we are not there yet).
When producing UTF-16 as an output, iconv generates the big endian version
with a BOM. (big endian is probably chosen for historical reasons).
iconv can produce UTF-16 files with little endianess by using "UTF-16LE"
as encoding, and that file does not have a BOM.
Not all users (especially under Windows) are happy with this.
Some tools are not fully unicode aware and can only handle version (b).
Today there is no way to produce version (b) with iconv (or libiconv).
Looking into the history of iconv, it seems as if version (c) will
be used in all future iconv versions (for compatibility reasons).
Solve this dilemma and introduce a Git-specific "UTF-16LE-BOM".
libiconv can not handle the encoding, so Git pick it up, handles the BOM
and uses libiconv to convert the rest of the stream.
(UTF-16BE-BOM is added for consistency)
Rported-by: Adrián Gimeno Balaguer <adrigibal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the user gives an empty argument to --exec then git creates a todo
list that it cannot parse. The rebase starts to run before erroring out
with
error: missing arguments for exec
error: invalid line 2: exec
You can fix this with 'git rebase --edit-todo' and then run 'git rebase --continue'.
Or you can abort the rebase with 'git rebase --abort'.
Instead check for empty commands before starting the rebase.
Also check that the command does not contain any newlines as the
todo-list format is unable to cope with multiline commands. Note that
this changes the behavior, before this change one could do
git rebase --exec='echo one
exec echo two'
and it would insert two exec lines in the todo list, now it will error
out.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Custom userformat "log --format" learned %S atom that stands for
the tip the traversal reached the commit from, i.e. --source.
* it/log-format-source:
log: add %S option (like --source) to log --format
"git add -e" got confused when the change it wants to let the user
edit is smaller than the previous change that was left over in a
temporary file.
* js/add-e-clear-patch-before-stating:
add --edit: truncate the patch file
The code to walk tree objects has been taught that we may be
working with object names that are not computed with SHA-1.
* bc/tree-walk-oid:
cache: make oidcpy always copy GIT_MAX_RAWSZ bytes
tree-walk: store object_id in a separate member
match-trees: use hashcpy to splice trees
match-trees: compute buffer offset correctly when splicing
tree-walk: copy object ID before use
"git fetch --deepen=<more>" has been corrected to work over v2
protocol.
* jt/upload-pack-deepen-relative-proto-v2:
upload-pack: teach deepen-relative in protocol v2
fetch-pack: do not take shallow lock unnecessarily
Debugging help for http transport.
* ms/http-no-more-failonerror:
test: test GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 shows an error
remote-curl: unset CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
remote-curl: define struct for CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION
http: enable keep_error for HTTP requests
http: support file handles for HTTP_KEEP_ERROR
"git rebase" internally runs "checkout" to switch between branches,
and the command used to call the post-checkout hook, but the
reimplementation stopped doing so, which is getting fixed.
* os/rebase-runs-post-checkout-hook:
rebase: run post-checkout hook on checkout
t5403: simplify by using a single repository
Add sha-256 hash and plug it through the code to allow building Git
with the "NewHash".
* bc/sha-256:
hash: add an SHA-256 implementation using OpenSSL
sha256: add an SHA-256 implementation using libgcrypt
Add a base implementation of SHA-256 support
commit-graph: convert to using the_hash_algo
t/helper: add a test helper to compute hash speed
sha1-file: add a constant for hash block size
t: make the sha1 test-tool helper generic
t: add basic tests for our SHA-1 implementation
cache: make hashcmp and hasheq work with larger hashes
hex: introduce functions to print arbitrary hashes
sha1-file: provide functions to look up hash algorithms
sha1-file: rename algorithm to "sha1"
"git fetch --recurse-submodules" may not fetch the necessary commit
that is bound to the superproject, which is getting corrected.
* sb/submodule-recursive-fetch-gets-the-tip:
fetch: ensure submodule objects fetched
submodule.c: fetch in submodules git directory instead of in worktree
submodule: migrate get_next_submodule to use repository structs
repository: repo_submodule_init to take a submodule struct
submodule: store OIDs in changed_submodule_names
submodule.c: tighten scope of changed_submodule_names struct
submodule.c: sort changed_submodule_names before searching it
submodule.c: fix indentation
sha1-array: provide oid_array_filter
The v2 upload-pack protocol implementation failed to honor
hidden-ref configuration, which has been corrected.
An earlier attempt reverted out of 'next'.
* jk/proto-v2-hidden-refs-fix:
upload-pack: support hidden refs with protocol v2
There were many places the code relied on the string returned from
getenv() to be non-volatile, which is not true, that have been
corrected.
* jk/save-getenv-result:
builtin_diff(): read $GIT_DIFF_OPTS closer to use
merge-recursive: copy $GITHEAD strings
init: make a copy of $GIT_DIR string
config: make a copy of $GIT_CONFIG string
commit: copy saved getenv() result
get_super_prefix(): copy getenv() result
Prepare Documentation/Makefile so that manpage localization can
reuse it by overriding and tweaking the list of build products.
* ja/doc-build-l10n:
Documentation/Makefile add optional targets for l10n
"git rebase -i" learned to re-execute a command given with 'exec'
to run after it failed the last time.
* js/rebase-i-redo-exec:
rebase: introduce a shortcut for --reschedule-failed-exec
rebase: add a config option to default to --reschedule-failed-exec
rebase: introduce --reschedule-failed-exec
The code to drive GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF command relied on the string
returned from getenv() to be non-volatile, which is not true, that
has been corrected.
* kg/external-diff-save-env:
diff: ensure correct lifetime of external_diff_cmd
Sometimes there are test failures in the 'pu' branch. This
is somewhat expected for a branch that takes the very latest
topics under development, and those sometimes have semantic
conflicts that only show up during test runs. This also can
happen when running the test suite with different GIT_TEST_*
environment variables that interact in unexpected ways
This causes a problem for the test coverage reports, as
the typical 'make coverage-test coverage-report' run halts
at the first failed test. If that test is early in the
suite, then many valuable tests are not exercising the code
and the coverage report becomes noisy with false positives.
Add a new 'coverage-prove' target to the Makefile,
modeled after the 'coverage-test' target. This compiles
the source using the coverage flags, then runs the test
suite using the 'prove' tool. Since the coverage
machinery is not thread-safe, enforce that the tests
are run in sequence by appending '-j1' to GIT_PROVE_OPTS.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using `human` several fields are suppressed depending on the time
difference between the reference date and the local computer date. In
cases where the difference is less than a year, the year field is
supppressed. If the time is less than a day; the month and year is
suppressed.
Use TEST_DATE_NOW environment variable when using the test-tool to
hold the expected output strings constant.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the human format support to the test tool so that
GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW can be used to specify the current time.
The get_time() helper function was created and and checks the
GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW environment variable. If GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW is set,
then that date is used instead of the date returned by by
gettimeofday().
All calls to gettimeofday() were replaced by calls to get_time().
Renamed occurances of TEST_DATE_NOW to GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW since the
variable is now used in the get binary and not just in the test-tool.
Signed-off-by: Stephen P. Smith <ischis2@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The fact that Git's test suite is implemented in Unix shell script that
is as portable as we can muster, combined with the fact that Unix shell
scripting is foreign to Windows (and therefore has to be emulated),
results in pretty abysmal speed of the test suite on that platform, for
pretty much no other reason than that language choice.
For comparison: while the Linux build & test is typically done within
about 8 minutes, the Windows build & test typically lasts about 80
minutes in Azure Pipelines.
To help with that, let's use the Azure Pipeline feature where you can
parallelize jobs, make jobs depend on each other, and pass artifacts
between them.
The tests are distributed using the following heuristic: listing all
test scripts ordered by size in descending order (as a cheap way to
estimate the overall run time), every Nth script is run (where N is the
total number of parallel jobs), starting at the index corresponding to
the parallel job. This slicing is performed by a new function that is
added to the `test-tool`.
To optimize the overall runtime of the entire Pipeline, we need to move
the Windows jobs to the beginning (otherwise there would be a very
decent chance for the Pipeline to be run only the Windows build, while
all the parallel Windows test jobs wait for this single one).
We use Azure Pipelines Artifacts for both the minimal Git for Windows
SDK as well as the built executables, as deduplication and caching close
to the agents makes that really fast. For comparison: while downloading
and unpacking the minimal Git for Windows SDK via PowerShell takes only
one minute (down from anywhere between 2.5 to 7 when using a shallow
clone), uploading it as Pipeline Artifact takes less than 30s and
downloading and unpacking less than 20s (sometimes even as little as
only twelve seconds).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As Unix shell scripting comes at a hefty price on Windows, we have to
see where we can save some time to run the test suite.
Let's skip the chain linting and the bin-wrappers/ redirection on
Windows; this seems to shave of anywhere between 10-30% from the overall
runtime.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This speeds up the tests by a bit on Windows, where running Unix shell
scripts (and spawning processes) is not exactly a cheap operation.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When building Git with RUNTIME_PREFIX and starting a test helper from
t/helper/, it fails to detect a system prefix. The reason is that the
RUNTIME_PREFIX feature wants to use the location of the Git executable
to determine where the support files can be found, e.g. system-wide Git
config or the translations. This does not make any sense for the test
helpers, though, as they are distinctly not in a directory structure
resembling the final installation location of Git.
That is the reason why the test helpers rely on environment variables to
indicate the location of the needed support files, e.g.
GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR. If this information is missing, the output will
contain warnings like this one:
RUNTIME_PREFIX requested, but prefix computation failed. [...]
In t0061, we did not expect that to happen, and it actually does not
happen in the regular case, because bin-wrappers/test-tool specifically
sets GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR (and as a consequence, nothing in test-tool needs
to know anything about any runtime prefix).
However, with --with-dashes, bin-wrappers/test-tool is no longer called,
but t/helper/test-tool is called directly instead.
So let's just ignore the RUNTIME_PREFIX warning.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We really need to be able to find the test helpers... Really. This
change was forgotten when we moved the test helpers into t/helper/
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It seems that every once in a while in the Git for Windows SDK, there
are some transient file locking issues preventing the test clean up to
delete the trash directory. Let's be gentle and try again five seconds
later, and only error out if it still fails the second time.
This change helps Windows, and does not hurt any other platform
(normally, it is highly unlikely that said deletion fails, and if it
does, normally it will fail again even 5 seconds later).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The JUnit XML format lends itself to be presented in a powerful UI,
where you can drill down to the information you are interested in very
quickly.
For test failures, this usually means that you want to see the detailed
trace of the failing tests.
With Travis CI, we passed the `--verbose-log` option to get those
traces. However, that seems excessive, as we do not need/use the logs in
almost all of those cases: only when a test fails do we have a way to
include the trace.
So let's do something different when using Azure DevOps: let's run all
the tests with `--quiet` first, and only if a failure is encountered,
try to trace the commands as they are executed.
Of course, we cannot turn on `--verbose-log` after the fact. So let's
just re-run the test with all the same options, adding `--verbose-log`.
And then munging the output file into the JUnit XML on the fly.
Note: there is an off chance that re-running the test in verbose mode
"fixes" the failures (and this does happen from time to time!). That is
a possibility we should be able to live with. Ideally, we would label
this as "Passed upon rerun", and Azure Pipelines even know about that
outcome, but it is not available when using the JUnit XML format for
now:
https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/blob/master/src/Agent.Worker/TestResults/JunitResultReader.cs
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is a bit ridiculous to spin up a full-blown Perl instance (especially
on Windows, where that means spinning up a full POSIX emulation layer,
AKA the MSYS2 runtime) just to tell how large a given file is.
So let's just use the test-tool to do that job instead.
This command will also be used over the next commits, to allow for
cutting out individual test cases' verbose log from the file generated
via --verbose-log.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Just like so many other OSS projects, we now also have a build badge.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Every once in a while, the Azure Pipeline fails with some semi-random
error: timer thread did not terminate timely
This error message means that the thread that is used to emulate the
setitimer() function did not terminate within 1,000 milliseconds.
The most likely explanation (and therefore the one we should assume to
be true, according to Occam's Razor) is that the timeout of one second
is simply not enough because we try to run so many tasks in parallel.
So let's give it ten seconds instead of only one. That should be enough.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of a shallow fetch followed by a sparse checkout, we are
better off by using a separate, dedicated Pipeline that bundles
the SDK as a build artifact, and then consuming that build artifact
here.
In fact, since this artifact will be used a lot, we spent substantial
time on figuring out a minimal subset of the Git for Windows SDK, just
enough to build and test Git. The result is a size reduction from around
1GB (compressed) to around 55MB (compressed). This also comes with the
change where we now call `usr\bin\bash.exe` directly, as `git-cmd.exe`
is not included in the minimal SDK.
That reduces the time to initialize Git for Windows' SDK from anywhere
between 2m30s-7m to a little over 1m.
Note: in theory, we could also use the DownloadBuildArtifacts@0 task
here. However, restricted permissions that are in effect when building
from forks would let this fail for PR builds, defeating the whole
purpose of the Azure Pipelines support for git.git.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, we did not have robust support for Windows in our CI
definition, simply because Travis cannot accommodate our needs (even
after Travis added experimental Windows support very recently, it takes
longer than Travis' 50 minute timeout to build Git and run the test
suite on Windows). Instead, we used a hack that started a dedicated
Azure Pipeline from Travis and waited for the output, often timing out
(which is quite fragile, as we found out).
With this commit, we finally have first-class support for Windows in our
CI definition (in the Azure Pipelines one, that is).
Due to our reliance on Unix shell scripting in the test suite, combined
with the challenges on executing such scripts on Windows, the Windows
job currently takes a whopping ~1h20m to complete. Which is *far* longer
than the next-longest job takes (linux-gcc, ~35m).
Now, Azure Pipelines's free tier for open source projects (such as Git)
offers up to 10 concurrent jobs for free, meaning that the overall run
time will be dominated by the slowest job(s).
Therefore, it makes sense to start the Windows job first, to minimize
the time the entire build takes from start to end (which is now pretty
safely the run time of the Windows job).
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
