mingw: ensure valid CTYPE A change between versions 2.4.1 and 2.6.0 of the MSYS2 runtime modified how Cygwin's runtime (and hence Git for Windows' MSYS2 runtime derivative) handles locales: d16a56306d (Consolidate wctomb/mbtowc calls for POSIX-1.2008, 2016-07-20). An unintended side-effect is that "cold-calling" into the POSIX emulation will start with a locale based on the current code page, something that Git for Windows is very ill-prepared for, as it expects to be able to pass a command-line containing non-ASCII characters to the shell without having those characters munged. One symptom of this behavior: when `git clone` or `git fetch` shell out to call `git-upload-pack` with a path that contains non-ASCII characters, the shell tried to interpret the entire command-line (including command-line parameters) as executable path, which obviously must fail. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1036 Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index e0fbd2c..afdc1ef 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -3185,6 +3185,9 @@ static void setup_windows_environment(void) if (!tmp && (tmp = getenv("USERPROFILE"))) setenv("HOME", tmp, 1); } + + if (!getenv("LC_ALL") && !getenv("LC_CTYPE") && !getenv("LANG")) + setenv("LC_CTYPE", "C.UTF-8", 1); } int mingw_platform_has_symlinks(void)