gix_path/env/mod.rs
1use std::{
2 ffi::{OsStr, OsString},
3 path::{Path, PathBuf},
4};
5
6use bstr::{BString, ByteSlice};
7use std::sync::LazyLock;
8
9use crate::env::git::EXE_NAME;
10
11mod auxiliary;
12mod git;
13
14/// Return the location at which installation specific git configuration file can be found, or `None`
15/// if the binary could not be executed or its results could not be parsed.
16///
17/// ### Performance
18///
19/// This invokes the git binary which is slow on windows.
20pub fn installation_config() -> Option<&'static Path> {
21 git::install_config_path().and_then(|p| crate::try_from_byte_slice(p).ok())
22}
23
24/// Return the location at which git installation specific configuration files are located, or `None` if the binary
25/// could not be executed or its results could not be parsed.
26///
27/// ### Performance
28///
29/// This invokes the git binary which is slow on windows.
30pub fn installation_config_prefix() -> Option<&'static Path> {
31 installation_config().map(git::config_to_base_path)
32}
33
34/// Return the shell that Git would use, the shell to execute commands from.
35///
36/// On Windows, this is the full path to `sh.exe` bundled with Git for Windows if we can find it.
37/// If the bundled shell on Windows cannot be found, `sh.exe` is returned as the name of a shell,
38/// as it could possibly be found in `PATH`. On Unix it's `/bin/sh` as the POSIX-compatible shell.
39///
40/// Note that the returned path might not be a path on disk, if it is a fallback path or if the
41/// file was moved or deleted since the first time this function is called.
42pub fn shell() -> &'static OsStr {
43 static PATH: LazyLock<OsString> = LazyLock::new(|| {
44 if cfg!(windows) {
45 auxiliary::find_git_associated_windows_executable_with_fallback("sh")
46 } else {
47 "/bin/sh".into()
48 }
49 });
50 PATH.as_ref()
51}
52
53/// Return the name of the Git executable to invoke it.
54///
55/// If it's in the `PATH`, it will always be a short name.
56///
57/// Note that on Windows, we will find the executable in the `PATH` if it exists there, or search it
58/// in alternative locations which when found yields the full path to it.
59pub fn exe_invocation() -> &'static Path {
60 if cfg!(windows) {
61 /// The path to the Git executable as located in the `PATH` or in other locations that it's
62 /// known to be installed to. It's `None` if environment variables couldn't be read or if
63 /// no executable could be found.
64 static EXECUTABLE_PATH: LazyLock<Option<PathBuf>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
65 std::env::split_paths(&std::env::var_os("PATH")?)
66 .chain(git::ALTERNATIVE_LOCATIONS.iter().map(Into::into))
67 .find_map(|prefix| {
68 let full_path = prefix.join(EXE_NAME);
69 full_path.is_file().then_some(full_path)
70 })
71 .map(|exe_path| {
72 let is_in_alternate_location = git::ALTERNATIVE_LOCATIONS
73 .iter()
74 .any(|prefix| exe_path.strip_prefix(prefix).is_ok());
75 if is_in_alternate_location {
76 exe_path
77 } else {
78 EXE_NAME.into()
79 }
80 })
81 });
82 EXECUTABLE_PATH.as_deref().unwrap_or(Path::new(git::EXE_NAME))
83 } else {
84 Path::new("git")
85 }
86}
87
88/// Returns the fully qualified path in the *xdg-home* directory (or equivalent in the home dir) to
89/// `file`, accessing `env_var(<name>)` to learn where these bases are.
90///
91/// Note that the `HOME` directory should ultimately come from [`home_dir()`] as it handles Windows
92/// correctly. The same can be achieved by using [`var()`] as `env_var`.
93pub fn xdg_config(file: &str, env_var: &mut dyn FnMut(&str) -> Option<OsString>) -> Option<PathBuf> {
94 env_var("XDG_CONFIG_HOME")
95 .map(|home| {
96 let mut p = PathBuf::from(home);
97 p.push("git");
98 p.push(file);
99 p
100 })
101 .or_else(|| {
102 env_var("HOME").map(|home| {
103 let mut p = PathBuf::from(home);
104 p.push(".config");
105 p.push("git");
106 p.push(file);
107 p
108 })
109 })
110}
111
112static GIT_CORE_DIR: LazyLock<Option<PathBuf>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
113 let mut cmd = std::process::Command::new(exe_invocation());
114
115 #[cfg(windows)]
116 {
117 use std::os::windows::process::CommandExt;
118 const CREATE_NO_WINDOW: u32 = 0x08000000;
119 cmd.creation_flags(CREATE_NO_WINDOW);
120 }
121 let output = cmd.arg("--exec-path").output().ok()?;
122
123 if !output.status.success() {
124 return None;
125 }
126
127 BString::new(output.stdout)
128 .strip_suffix(b"\n")?
129 .to_path()
130 .ok()?
131 .to_owned()
132 .into()
133});
134
135/// Return the directory obtained by calling `git --exec-path`.
136///
137/// Returns `None` if Git could not be found or if it returned an error.
138pub fn core_dir() -> Option<&'static Path> {
139 GIT_CORE_DIR.as_deref()
140}
141
142/// Return the path at which the Git-provided program with bare `name` resides within the [`core_dir()`],
143/// or `None` if it doesn't exist there or if Git could not be found.
144///
145/// This is the location `git` itself uses to find the programs implementing its subcommands, and is
146/// useful to invoke programs like `git-upload-pack` that are shipped with Git but aren't necessarily
147/// present in `PATH`.
148///
149/// Note that installations differ in which programs they provide as separate executables - builds
150/// with `SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS`, like Git for Windows, omit programs for builtin subcommands, which
151/// can then still be run through `git` itself.
152pub fn core_dir_program(name: &str) -> Option<PathBuf> {
153 let mut components = Path::new(name).components();
154 if !matches!(components.next(), Some(std::path::Component::Normal(_))) || components.next().is_some() {
155 return None;
156 }
157 let path = core_dir()?.join(format!("{name}{}", std::env::consts::EXE_SUFFIX));
158 path.is_file().then_some(path)
159}
160
161fn system_prefix_from_core_dir<F>(core_dir_func: F) -> Option<PathBuf>
162where
163 F: Fn() -> Option<&'static Path>,
164{
165 let path = core_dir_func()?;
166 let one_past_prefix = path.components().enumerate().find_map(|(idx, c)| {
167 matches!(c,std::path::Component::Normal(name) if name.to_str() == Some("libexec")).then_some(idx)
168 })?;
169 Some(path.components().take(one_past_prefix.checked_sub(1)?).collect())
170}
171
172fn system_prefix_from_exepath_var<F>(var_os_func: F) -> Option<PathBuf>
173where
174 F: Fn(&str) -> Option<OsString>,
175{
176 // Only attempt this optimization if the `EXEPATH` variable is set to an absolute path.
177 let root = var_os_func("EXEPATH").map(PathBuf::from).filter(|r| r.is_absolute())?;
178
179 let mut candidates = ["clangarm64", "mingw64", "mingw32"]
180 .iter()
181 .map(|component| root.join(component))
182 .filter(|candidate| candidate.is_dir());
183
184 let path = candidates.next()?;
185 match candidates.next() {
186 Some(_) => None, // Multiple plausible candidates, so don't use the `EXEPATH` optimization.
187 None => Some(path),
188 }
189}
190
191/// Returns the platform dependent system prefix or `None` if it cannot be found (right now only on Windows).
192///
193/// ### Performance
194///
195/// On Windows, the slowest part is the launch of the Git executable in the PATH. This is often
196/// avoided by inspecting the environment, when launched from inside a Git Bash MSYS2 shell.
197///
198/// ### When `None` is returned
199///
200/// This happens only Windows if the git binary can't be found at all for obtaining its executable
201/// path, or if the git binary wasn't built with a well-known directory structure or environment.
202pub fn system_prefix() -> Option<&'static Path> {
203 if cfg!(windows) {
204 static PREFIX: LazyLock<Option<PathBuf>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
205 system_prefix_from_exepath_var(|key| std::env::var_os(key))
206 .or_else(|| system_prefix_from_core_dir(core_dir))
207 });
208 PREFIX.as_deref()
209 } else {
210 Path::new("/").into()
211 }
212}
213
214/// Returns `$HOME` or `None` if it cannot be found.
215#[cfg(target_family = "wasm")]
216pub fn home_dir() -> Option<PathBuf> {
217 std::env::var("HOME").map(PathBuf::from).ok()
218}
219
220/// Tries to obtain the home directory from `HOME` on all platforms, but falls back to
221/// [`std::env::home_dir()`] for more complex ways of obtaining a home directory, particularly useful
222/// on Windows.
223///
224/// The reason `HOME` is tried first is to allow Windows users to have a custom location for their
225/// linux-style home, as otherwise they would have to accumulate dot files in a directory these are
226/// inconvenient and perceived as clutter.
227#[cfg(not(target_family = "wasm"))]
228pub fn home_dir() -> Option<PathBuf> {
229 std::env::var_os("HOME").map(Into::into).or_else(std::env::home_dir)
230}
231
232/// Returns the contents of an environment variable of `name` with some special handling for
233/// certain environment variables (like `HOME`) for platform compatibility.
234pub fn var(name: &str) -> Option<OsString> {
235 if name == "HOME" {
236 home_dir().map(PathBuf::into_os_string)
237 } else {
238 std::env::var_os(name)
239 }
240}
241
242#[cfg(test)]
243mod tests;