symlinked gitignore file fails with "fatal: cannot use <path> as an exclude file" #1392
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Seeing the exact same behaviour. Important to note that this is a regression. I've been using a symlinked |
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We've had a report of this in GitHub Desktop - desktop/desktop#3617 - I've not had a chance to dig into where this was introduced, but it seems like Git if (add_excludes(fname, "", 0, el, NULL, sha1_stat) < 0)
die("cannot use %s as an exclude file", fname);cc @jeffhostetler for any other ideas |
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I'm looking at it now. |
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I found the problem. The subtleties of lstat() vs stat(). I posted a fix here: |
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Fix regression described in: git-for-windows#1392 which was introduced in: git-for-windows@b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fixed via #1407. @0xabu, once the snapshot is available at https://wingit.blob.core.windows.net/files/index.html (should not take more than an hour), would you mind verifying that it is fixed? |
@0xabu There are now multiple snapshots with the fix, so can you please test that this ticket can be closed? Thank you. |
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@dscho I can confirm this is fixed in Git-prerelease-2.15.1.windows.2.27.g512e5d63ec-64-bit -- thanks all! |
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
Thanks for the confirmation! |
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The `core.excludesfile` [can now reference a symbolic link](git-for-windows/git#1392). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: git-for-windows#1392 which was introduced in: git-for-windows@b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: git-for-windows#1392 which was introduced in: git-for-windows@b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: git-for-windows#1392 which was introduced in: git-for-windows@b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: git-for-windows#1392 which was introduced in: git-for-windows@b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: git-for-windows#1392 which was introduced in: git-for-windows@b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: git-for-windows#1392 which was introduced in: git-for-windows@b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Fix regression described in: #1392 which was introduced in: b235337 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use <path> as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <[email protected]>
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Setup
defaults?
However, I have also tried manually changing the symlink setting:
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This repros from both CMD and Cygwin ZSH
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this will help us understand the issue.
I try to keep all my configuration files in OneDrive, and use symlinks to point to them. I have both ~/.gitconfig and ~/.gitignore in OneDrive. Cygwin and WSL git are both happy with this arrangement, but Git for Windows ignores and refuses to use a symlinked .gitignore file (even if it's still happy with a symlink at ~/.gitconfig).
Here's a self-contained repro, starting from
C:\Users\<me>:Git reads and uses my custom .gitignore file, just as it did in the first instance of "git status" when it wasn't a symlink.
Git prints the warning:
and ignores the contents of that file.
A syscall trace shows that git is actually following the symlink and reading the contents of the linked file before ignoring it, so it's unclear what exactly is wrong with having a symlink there:
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