win32: add a helper to run git.exe without a foreground window

On Windows, there are two kinds of executables, console ones and
non-console ones. Git's executables are all console ones.

When launching the former e.g. in a scheduled task, a CMD window pops
up. This is not what we want for the tasks installed via the `git
maintenance` command.

To work around this, let's introduce `headless-git.exe`, which is a
non-console program that does _not_ pop up any window. All it does is to
re-launch `git.exe`, suppressing that console window, passing through
all command-line arguments as-are.

Helped-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Yuyi Wang <Strawberry_Str@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johannes Schindelin
2023-08-09 16:54:46 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent fb7d80edca
commit 4b8a2717bb
6 changed files with 139 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -738,6 +738,15 @@ if(WIN32)
else()
message(FATAL_ERROR "Unhandled compiler: ${CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID}")
endif()
add_executable(headless-git ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/compat/win32/headless.c)
if(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "GNU" OR CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "Clang")
target_link_options(headless-git PUBLIC -municode -Wl,-subsystem,windows)
elseif(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "MSVC")
target_link_options(headless-git PUBLIC /NOLOGO /ENTRY:wWinMainCRTStartup /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS)
else()
message(FATAL_ERROR "Unhandled compiler: ${CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID}")
endif()
elseif(UNIX)
target_link_libraries(common-main pthread rt)
endif()

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@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ sub createProject {
my $libs_release = "\n ";
my $libs_debug = "\n ";
if (!$static_library) {
if (!$static_library && $name ne 'headless-git') {
$libs_release = join(";", sort(grep /^(?!libgit\.lib|xdiff\/lib\.lib|vcs-svn\/lib\.lib|reftable\/libreftable\.lib)/, @{$$build_structure{"$prefix${name}_LIBS"}}));
$libs_debug = $libs_release;
$libs_debug =~ s/zlib\.lib/zlibd\.lib/g;
@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ EOM
print F << "EOM";
</ItemGroup>
EOM
if (!$static_library || $target =~ 'vcs-svn' || $target =~ 'xdiff') {
if ((!$static_library || $target =~ 'vcs-svn' || $target =~ 'xdiff') && !($name =~ /headless-git/)) {
my $uuid_libgit = $$build_structure{"LIBS_libgit_GUID"};
my $uuid_libreftable = $$build_structure{"LIBS_reftable/libreftable_GUID"};
my $uuid_xdiff_lib = $$build_structure{"LIBS_xdiff/lib_GUID"};

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@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ sub handleLinkLine
# exit(1);
foreach (@objfiles) {
my $sourcefile = $_;
$sourcefile =~ s/^headless-git\.o$/compat\/win32\/headless.c/;
$sourcefile =~ s/\.o$/.c/;
push(@sources, $sourcefile);
push(@cflags, @{$compile_options{"${sourcefile}_CFLAGS"}});