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# Windows binary tool bootstrap
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This directory has the 'magic' for the `depot_tools` windows binary update
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mechanisms.
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## Software bootstrapped
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* Python (https://www.python.org/)
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* Git for Windows (https://git-for-windows.github.io/)
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* Subversion (https://subversion.apache.org/)
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## Mechanism
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Any time a user runs `gclient` on windows, it will invoke the `depot_tools`
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autoupdate script [depot_tools.bat](../../update_depot_tools.bat). This, in
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turn, will run [win_tools.bat](./win_tools.bat), which does the bulk of the
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work.
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`win_tools.bat` will successively look to see if the local version of the binary
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package is present, and if so, if it's the expected version. If either of those
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cases is not true, it will download and unpack the respective binary.
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Downloading is done with [get_file.js](./get_file.js), which is a windows script
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host javascript utility to vaguely impersonate `wget`.
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Through a comedy of history, each binary is stored and retrieved differently.
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### Git
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Git installs are mirrored versions of the official Git-for-Windows Portable
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releases.
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* Original: `https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases`
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* Mirror: `gs://chrome-infra/PortableGit*.7z.exe`
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#### Updating git version
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1. Download the new `PortableGit-X.Y.Z-{32,64}.7z.exe` from the
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git-for-windows release page.
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1. From either console.developers.google.com or the CLI, do:
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1. Upload those to the gs://chrome-infra Google Storage bucket.
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1. Set the `allUsers Reader` permission (click the "Public link" checkbox
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next to the binaries).
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1. Edit the `git_version.txt` or `git_version_bleeding_edge.txt` file to
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be the new version.
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1. You can use the bleeding edge version to get early feedback/stage a
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rollout/etc. Users can select this version by 'touch'ing the
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`.git_bleeding_edge` file in the root depot_tools directory.
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1. Commit the CL.
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Note that in order for the update to take effect, `gclient` currently needs to
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run twice. The first time it will update the `depot_tools` repo, and the second
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time it will see the new git version and update to it. This is a bug that should
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be fixed, in case you're reading this and this paragraph infuriates you more
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than the rest of this README.
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### Python
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Python installs are sourced from gs://chrome-infra/python276_bin.zip .
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The process to create them is sort-of-documented in the README of the python
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zip file.
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