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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@ -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"}});