From f0af8b4aae3397d6bbe68a3c09f558cab983eaff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2026 20:05:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] mingw: do resolve symlinks in `getcwd()` As pointed out in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1676, the `git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree` command currently fails when the current directory's path contains symbolic links. The underlying reason for this bug is that `getcwd()` is supposed to resolve symbolic links, but our `mingw_getcwd()` implementation did not. We do have all the building blocks for that, though: the `GetFinalPathByHandleW()` function will resolve symbolic links. However, we only called that function if `GetLongPathNameW()` failed, for historical reasons: the latter function was supported for a long time, but the former API function was introduced only with Windows Vista, and we used to support also Windows XP. With that support having been dropped, we are free to call the symbolic link-resolving function right away. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- compat/mingw.c | 18 +++++++----------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index f09b49ff21..cf4f3c92e7 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -1239,18 +1239,16 @@ char *mingw_getcwd(char *pointer, int len) { wchar_t cwd[MAX_PATH], wpointer[MAX_PATH]; DWORD ret = GetCurrentDirectoryW(ARRAY_SIZE(cwd), cwd); + HANDLE hnd; if (!ret || ret >= ARRAY_SIZE(cwd)) { errno = ret ? ENAMETOOLONG : err_win_to_posix(GetLastError()); return NULL; } - ret = GetLongPathNameW(cwd, wpointer, ARRAY_SIZE(wpointer)); - if (!ret && GetLastError() == ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED) { - HANDLE hnd = CreateFileW(cwd, 0, - FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE, NULL, - OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, NULL); - if (hnd == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) - return NULL; + hnd = CreateFileW(cwd, 0, + FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE, NULL, + OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, NULL); + if (hnd != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) { ret = GetFinalPathNameByHandleW(hnd, wpointer, ARRAY_SIZE(wpointer), 0); CloseHandle(hnd); if (!ret || ret >= ARRAY_SIZE(wpointer)) @@ -1259,13 +1257,11 @@ char *mingw_getcwd(char *pointer, int len) return NULL; return pointer; } - if (!ret || ret >= ARRAY_SIZE(wpointer)) - return NULL; - if (GetFileAttributesW(wpointer) == INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES) { + if (GetFileAttributesW(cwd) == INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES) { errno = ENOENT; return NULL; } - if (xwcstoutf(pointer, wpointer, len) < 0) + if (xwcstoutf(pointer, cwd, len) < 0) return NULL; convert_slashes(pointer); return pointer;