mingw: use modern strftime implementation if possible

Microsoft introduced a new "Universal C Runtime Library" (UCRT) with
Visual Studio 2015. The UCRT comes with a new strftime() implementation
that supports more date formats. We link git against the older
"Microsoft Visual C Runtime Library" (MSVCRT), so to use the UCRT
strftime() we need to load it from ucrtbase.dll using
DECLARE_PROC_ADDR()/INIT_PROC_ADDR().

Most supported Windows systems should have recieved the UCRT via Windows
update, but in some cases only MSVCRT might be available. In that case
we fall back to using that implementation.

With this change, it is possible to use e.g. the `%g` and `%V` date
format specifiers, e.g.

	git show -s --format=%cd --date=format:‘%g.%V’ HEAD

Without this change, the user would see this error message on Windows:

	fatal: invalid strftime format: '‘%g.%V’'

This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2495

Signed-off-by: Matthias Aßhauer <mha1993@live.de>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index d14065d60e..2136744af3 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -964,7 +964,16 @@ revert_attrs:
 size_t mingw_strftime(char *s, size_t max,
 		      const char *format, const struct tm *tm)
 {
-	size_t ret = strftime(s, max, format, tm);
+	/* a pointer to the original strftime in case we can't find the UCRT version */
+	static size_t (*fallback)(char *, size_t, const char *, const struct tm *) = strftime;
+	size_t ret;
+	DECLARE_PROC_ADDR(ucrtbase.dll, size_t, strftime, char *, size_t,
+		const char *, const struct tm *);
+
+	if (INIT_PROC_ADDR(strftime))
+		ret = strftime(s, max, format, tm);
+	else
+		ret = fallback(s, max, format, tm);
 
 	if (!ret && errno == EINVAL)
 		die("invalid strftime format: '%s'", format);