delta/libgit2.git/src/win32/path_w32.h, branch peff/binary-search-do-while

git_win32_path_dirload_with_stat: removed

2015-05-01T16:31:14+00:00

Improvements to status performance on Windows.

2015-04-28T18:25:02+00:00

Changed win32/path_w32.c to utilize NTFS' FindFirst..FindNext data instead of doing an lstat per file. Avoiding unnecessary directory opens and file scans reduces IO, improving overall performance. Effect is magnified due to NTFS being a kernel mode file system (as opposed to user mode).

Fix ming32 compilation

2014-12-19T08:08:47+00:00

We need to know what wchar_t and MAX_PATH are. Including common.h takes
care of that for us.

checkout: disallow bad paths on win32

2014-12-16T16:08:53+00:00

Disallow:
 1. paths with trailing dot
 2. paths with trailing space
 3. paths with trailing colon
 4. paths that are 8.3 short names of .git folders ("GIT~1")
 5. paths that are reserved path names (COM1, LPT1, etc).
 6. paths with reserved DOS characters (colons, asterisks, etc)

These paths would (without \\?\ syntax) be elided to other paths - for
example, ".git." would be written as ".git".  As a result, writing these
paths literally (using \\?\ syntax) makes them hard to operate with from
the shell, Windows Explorer or other tools.  Disallow these.

win32: use NT-prefixed "\\?\" paths

2014-12-16T16:08:43+00:00

When turning UTF-8 paths into UCS-2 paths for Windows, always use
the \\?\-prefixed paths.  Because this bypasses the system's
path canonicalization, handle the canonicalization functions ourselves.

We must:
 1. always use a backslash as a directory separator
 2. only use a single backslash between directories
 3. not rely on the system to translate "." and ".." in paths
 4. remove trailing backslashes, except at the drive root (C:\)