fix(utils): normalize MSYS/Cygwin Git paths on Windows#12067
fix(utils): normalize MSYS/Cygwin Git paths on Windows#12067adityasingh2400 wants to merge 3 commits into
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When Git runs from a Unix-like shell on Windows (Git Bash, MSYS2, Cygwin), commands like `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` can print a Unix-style path such as `/c/Users/me/site` instead of the native `C:\Users\me\site`. Such a path is not a valid Windows path. Passing it to `fs.realpath` resolves it against the current drive root, which duplicates the drive letter (for example `/p/projets` becomes `P:\p\projets`) and makes the eager Git VCS strategy fail with ENOENT. Add `fromGitPathToNativePath()` to convert the `/<drive>/` mount prefix back to a native Windows path, and apply it to the output of `getGitRepoRoot` and `getGitSuperProjectRoot` before calling `fs.realpath`. The helper is a no-op on non-Windows platforms and for paths that are already native, UNC, or regular posix paths.
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Before attempting any fix, I'd like to see the CI failing with a repro.
Maybe you could tweak our action workflows to make that happen?
For example, maybe this would help?
https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2
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Makes sense, repro-first is the right call here. Let me lay out where the failure actually lands and propose the CI job. The real failing path. What is already here. The unit tests pin Proposed CI repro (your setup-msys2 idea). A Windows job that:
On One thing before I push it: this touches your Actions config and I cannot run a Windows or MSYS2 runner locally to confirm the job triggers the bug exactly as designed, so I would be iterating through this PR's own CI. Happy to add it if you are good with that, or if you would rather keep the workflow change separate I can split it out. Which do you prefer? |
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…ication Adds a windows-latest workflow that uses msys2/setup-msys2 to provide the MSYS build of Git, creates a real repo on the C: drive, and runs the real getGitRepoRoot from inside the MSYS2 shell. The job proves both the bug and the fix in one run: it shows git rev-parse --show-toplevel returning a /c/... MSYS path, that fs.realpath.native on that raw path duplicates the drive into a nonexistent C:\c\... path, and that getGitRepoRoot now resolves it to a correct existing native path. A nofix mode asserts the old behaviour for a genuine red run. See facebook#11920
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Thanks for the steer toward setup-msys2. I set up a Windows CI reproduction on my fork so the behaviour is visible end to end. The workflow runs on windows-latest, uses msys2/setup-msys2 to provide the MSYS build of Git, creates a real git repo on the C: drive, and then runs the actual getGitRepoRoot from inside the MSYS2 shell so that git rev-parse --show-toplevel returns the MSYS path. It checks out the same commit for both a passing and a failing run. What the CI shows:
Green run (fix in place, asserts the correct resolution): https://github.com/adityasingh2400/docusaurus/actions/runs/26660622483 Both runs are on commit 972521b. The same green run documents the bug and the fix side by side, and the red run is a genuine failing CI run for the unfixed path. Happy to fold this workflow into the PR as a Windows regression check, or keep it as a separate repro that I drop once you are satisfied. Your call on which you prefer. |
Replace fs.realpathSync.native and fs.existsSync with promisified realpath and an async access helper, and make the two unused regex groups non-capturing, to satisfy the repo lint rules.
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Thanks, that is exactly the right instinct. I added a dedicated repro that uses msys2/setup-msys2 just as you suggested:
The workflow has two modes via workflow_dispatch. The |
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Motivation
Addresses #11920.
On Windows, when Git is invoked from a Unix-like shell (Git Bash, MSYS2, Cygwin),
git rev-parse --show-toplevelcan return a Unix-style absolute path that uses a drive mount prefix, e.g./p/projets/my-repoinstead of the nativeP:\projets\my-repo.The eager Git VCS strategy added in 3.10 feeds that raw output into
fs.realpath. Because/p/...is not a valid Windows path,fs.realpath/path.resolveresolves it against the root of the current drive, which duplicates the drive letter:/p/projets/my-repobecomesP:\p\projets\my-repo. The build then fails with:CI did not catch this because the Git builds used on CI emit native Windows paths rather than MSYS mount-style paths, so the bad code path is only reached in those shells.
The fix
A small helper
fromGitPathToNativePath()inpathUtils.tsconverts a/<drive>/...mount path back to a native Windows path (/p/projets->P:\projets). It is applied to the output ofgetGitRepoRootandgetGitSuperProjectRootbeforefs.realpathis called.The helper is deliberately conservative:
/c/...is a legitimate absolute path./c/,/p/, ...), which under MSYS/Cygwin is always a drive mount. Real posix paths like/home/...or/usr/...are left untouched.C:\...,C:/...) and UNC paths (//server/share) are returned unchanged.Test Plan
Added unit tests in
pathUtils.test.tscovering the conversion, the pass-through cases (native Windows, UNC, posix), and the non-Windows no-op, using the sameprocess.platformoverride pattern already used in that file.gitUtils.test.tscontinues to pass (it exercisesgetGitRepoRoot/getGitSuperProjectRoot, which now route through the helper; on non-Windows the helper is a no-op so behavior is unchanged).I do not have a Windows + Git Bash setup to reproduce the original ENOENT end to end, so I would appreciate confirmation from someone on the affected configuration that the build now succeeds with the default
gitEagerVcsstrategy. The unit tests assert that the exact/p/projets/my-repo->P:\projets\my-repoconversion from the issue is correct.Related issues/PRs