Merge pull request GitoxideLabs#1758 from GitoxideLabs/git-shell

Fix `gix_path::env::login_shell()` by removing it

gitoxide-core/src/lib.rs

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #![deny(rust_2018_idioms)]
 #![forbid(unsafe_code)]
 
+use anyhow::bail;
 use std::str::FromStr;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Eq, PartialEq, Hash, Clone, Copy)]
@@ -82,6 +83,51 @@ pub mod repository;
 mod discover;
 pub use discover::discover;
 
+pub fn env(mut out: impl std::io::Write, format: OutputFormat) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    if format != OutputFormat::Human {
+        bail!("JSON output isn't supported");
+    };
+
+    let width = 15;
+    writeln!(
+        out,
+        "{field:>width$}: {}",
+        std::path::Path::new(gix::path::env::shell()).display(),
+        field = "shell",
+    )?;
+    writeln!(
+        out,
+        "{field:>width$}: {:?}",
+        gix::path::env::installation_config_prefix(),
+        field = "config prefix",
+    )?;
+    writeln!(
+        out,
+        "{field:>width$}: {:?}",
+        gix::path::env::installation_config(),
+        field = "config",
+    )?;
+    writeln!(
+        out,
+        "{field:>width$}: {}",
+        gix::path::env::exe_invocation().display(),
+        field = "git exe",
+    )?;
+    writeln!(
+        out,
+        "{field:>width$}: {:?}",
+        gix::path::env::system_prefix(),
+        field = "system prefix",
+    )?;
+    writeln!(
+        out,
+        "{field:>width$}: {:?}",
+        gix::path::env::core_dir(),
+        field = "core dir",
+    )?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 #[cfg(all(feature = "async-client", feature = "blocking-client"))]
 compile_error!("Cannot set both 'blocking-client' and 'async-client' features as they are mutually exclusive");
 

gix-path/src/env/mod.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use std::ffi::OsString;
+use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 
 use bstr::{BString, ByteSlice};
@@ -28,21 +28,25 @@ pub fn installation_config_prefix() -> Option<&'static Path> {
     installation_config().map(git::config_to_base_path)
 }
 
-/// Return the shell that Git would prefer as login shell, the shell to execute Git commands from.
+/// Return the shell that Git would use, the shell to execute commands from.
 ///
-/// On Windows, this is the `bash.exe` bundled with it, and on Unix it's the shell specified by `SHELL`,
-/// or `None` if it is truly unspecified.
-pub fn login_shell() -> Option<&'static Path> {
-    static PATH: Lazy<Option<PathBuf>> = Lazy::new(|| {
+/// On Windows, this is the full path to `sh.exe` bundled with Git, and on
+/// Unix it's `/bin/sh` as posix compatible shell.
+/// If the bundled shell on Windows cannot be found, `sh` is returned as the name of a shell
+/// as it could possibly be found in `PATH`.
+/// Note that the returned path might not be a path on disk.
+pub fn shell() -> &'static OsStr {
+    static PATH: Lazy<OsString> = Lazy::new(|| {
         if cfg!(windows) {
-            installation_config_prefix()
-                .and_then(|p| p.parent())
-                .map(|p| p.join("usr").join("bin").join("bash.exe"))
+            core_dir()
+                .and_then(|p| p.ancestors().nth(3)) // Skip something like mingw64/libexec/git-core.
+                .map(|p| p.join("usr").join("bin").join("sh.exe"))
+                .map_or_else(|| OsString::from("sh"), Into::into)
         } else {
-            std::env::var_os("SHELL").map(PathBuf::from)
+            "/bin/sh".into()
         }
     });
-    PATH.as_deref()
+    PATH.as_ref()
 }
 
 /// Return the name of the Git executable to invoke it.
@@ -102,6 +106,36 @@ pub fn xdg_config(file: &str, env_var: &mut dyn FnMut(&str) -> Option<OsString>)
         })
 }
 
+static GIT_CORE_DIR: Lazy<Option<PathBuf>> = Lazy::new(|| {
+    let mut cmd = std::process::Command::new(exe_invocation());
+
+    #[cfg(windows)]
+    {
+        use std::os::windows::process::CommandExt;
+        const CREATE_NO_WINDOW: u32 = 0x08000000;
+        cmd.creation_flags(CREATE_NO_WINDOW);
+    }
+    let output = cmd.arg("--exec-path").output().ok()?;
+
+    if !output.status.success() {
+        return None;
+    }
+
+    BString::new(output.stdout)
+        .strip_suffix(b"\n")?
+        .to_path()
+        .ok()?
+        .to_owned()
+        .into()
+});
+
+/// Return the directory obtained by calling `git --exec-path`.
+///
+/// Returns `None` if Git could not be found or if it returned an error.
+pub fn core_dir() -> Option<&'static Path> {
+    GIT_CORE_DIR.as_deref()
+}
+
 /// Returns the platform dependent system prefix or `None` if it cannot be found (right now only on windows).
 ///
 /// ### Performance
@@ -125,22 +159,7 @@ pub fn system_prefix() -> Option<&'static Path> {
                 }
             }
 
-            let mut cmd = std::process::Command::new(exe_invocation());
-            #[cfg(windows)]
-            {
-                use std::os::windows::process::CommandExt;
-                const CREATE_NO_WINDOW: u32 = 0x08000000;
-                cmd.creation_flags(CREATE_NO_WINDOW);
-            }
-            cmd.arg("--exec-path").stderr(std::process::Stdio::null());
-            gix_trace::debug!(cmd = ?cmd, "invoking git to get system prefix/exec path");
-            let path = cmd.output().ok()?.stdout;
-            let path = BString::new(path)
-                .trim_with(|b| b.is_ascii_whitespace())
-                .to_path()
-                .ok()?
-                .to_owned();
-
+            let path = GIT_CORE_DIR.as_deref()?;
             let one_past_prefix = path.components().enumerate().find_map(|(idx, c)| {
                 matches!(c,std::path::Component::Normal(name) if name.to_str() == Some("libexec")).then_some(idx)
             })?;

gix-path/tests/path/env.rs

@@ -8,13 +8,11 @@ fn exe_invocation() {
 }
 
 #[test]
-fn login_shell() {
-    // On CI, the $SHELL variable isn't necessarily set. Maybe other ways to get the login shell should be used then.
-    if !gix_testtools::is_ci::cached() {
-        assert!(gix_path::env::login_shell()
-            .expect("There should always be the notion of a shell used by git")
-            .exists());
-    }
+fn shell() {
+    assert!(
+        std::path::Path::new(gix_path::env::shell()).exists(),
+        "On CI and on Unix we'd expect a full path to the shell that exists on disk"
+    );
 }
 
 #[test]
@@ -26,6 +24,16 @@ fn installation_config() {
     );
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn core_dir() {
+    assert!(
+        gix_path::env::core_dir()
+            .expect("Git is always in PATH when we run tests")
+            .is_dir(),
+        "The core directory is a valid directory"
+    );
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn system_prefix() {
     assert_ne!(

src/plumbing/main.rs

@@ -146,6 +146,15 @@ pub fn main() -> Result<()> {
     }
 
     match cmd {
+        Subcommands::Env => prepare_and_run(
+            "env",
+            trace,
+            verbose,
+            progress,
+            progress_keep_open,
+            None,
+            move |_progress, out, _err| core::env(out, format),
+        ),
         Subcommands::Merge(merge::Platform { cmd }) => match cmd {
             merge::SubCommands::File {
                 resolve_with,

src/plumbing/options/mod.rs

@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ pub enum Subcommands {
     Corpus(corpus::Platform),
     MergeBase(merge_base::Command),
     Merge(merge::Platform),
+    Env,
     Diff(diff::Platform),
     Log(log::Platform),
     Worktree(worktree::Platform),