Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Fix Coverity builds on Windows

From: "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:02:30 +0000

As of three weeks ago, Git for Windows' Coverity builds fail
[https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/actions/workflows/coverity.yml?query=branch%3Amain].

The reason is most likely the most recent Coverity release, 2025.3. Its
release notes
[https://documentation.blackduck.com/bundle/coverity-docs/page/webhelp-files/relnotes_latest.html]
do not shed any light into the issue (and do not mention that they bundle
JDK20 and JDK22 in addition to a JRE, because what's better than a single
Java installation: three, right?).

My investigation turned up .dll files that are located in Coverity's bin/
directory which have the same name as .dll files in Git for Windows' SDK. As
a consequence, the former override the latter and throw off MSYS2's logic to
find the MSYS2 root directory given the location of certain .dll files.

This PR fixes this issue, and while at it, enhances the Coverity workflow to
print out the build log in case of failure.

Johannes Schindelin (2):
  ci(coverity): fix building on Windows
  ci(coverity): output the build log upon error

 .github/workflows/coverity.yml | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

base-commit: 683c54c999c301c2cd6f715c411407c413b1d84e
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1934%2Fdscho%2Ffix-coverity-builds-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1934/dscho/fix-coverity-builds-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1934
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