start-ssh-agent.cmd doesn't execute @CALL cmd %* at the end of the script

[AnastaZIuk]

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

I'm using Git for windows, 64-bit

$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.37.1.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 323a69709944b193bb5cee81ff09fe9a4a686df5
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon

• Which version of Windows are you running? Vista, 7, 8, 10? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit?
  I'm running windows 11, 64-bit

$ cmd.exe /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.795]

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

  defaults

# One of the following:
> type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
> type "$env:USERPROFILE\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
$ cat /etc/install-options.txt

Editor Option: CustomEditor
Custom Editor Path: C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Default Branch Option:  
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
Tortoise Option: false
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Git Pull Behavior Option: Merge
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled
Enable Pseudo Console Support: Disabled
Enable FSMonitor: Disabled

• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
  to the issue you're seeing?

  I don't think so

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

CMD

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

   cd "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd"
   ~~cmd~~ start-ssh-agent.exe /k echo "test"

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

it should perform ssh initialization and at the end if there is no fail it should execute @CALL cmd %* so in my case cmd /k echo "test"

• What actually happened instead?

nothing executed because there is a typo,

instead of doing

@IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 @(
    @CALL cmd %*
)

it should be

@IF NOT !ERRORLEVEL! == 1 @(
    @CALL cmd %*
)

• If the problem was occurring with a specific repository, can you provide the
  URL to that repository to help us with testing?

I don't know the repository I should look into

[dscho]

cd "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd"
cmd start-ssh-agent.exe /k echo "test"

This is the output when I try it here:

C:\Users\me>cd "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd"

C:\Program Files\Git\cmd> cmd start-ssh-agent.exe /k echo "test"
"test"

C:\Program Files\Git\cmd>

In other words: it works as expected here, without the indicated patch. Maybe this has something to do with delayed expansion? But I see that the script does enable that.

Color me puzzled.

[AnastaZIuk]

indeed it works for windows powershell, but it doesn't work for windows cmd

[AnastaZIuk]

cd "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd"
cmd start-ssh-agent.exe /k echo "test"

This is the output when I try it here:

C:\Users\me>cd "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd"

C:\Program Files\Git\cmd> cmd start-ssh-agent.exe /k echo "test"
"test"

C:\Program Files\Git\cmd>

In other words: it works as expected here, without the indicated patch. Maybe this has something to do with delayed expansion? But I see that the script does enable that.

Color me puzzled.

and after the patch it works for both

[dscho]

but it doesn't work for windows cmd

I tried this in CMD and in PowerShell, and it works for me in both. I am not opposed to accepting a PR with the patch (you will want to modify this file), but I want to understand first why it is needed.

[dscho]

It's hard to quote parts of a screenshot, so I won't. Pro-tip: paste text as text, not as a picture, in the future.

The thing about the "Found" line is that I do not get it, and when I run dir %TEMP%\ssh-??????* I also don't get any hit.

Even funnier: I do not get the SSH_AGENT_PID variable, either, so maybe something is going fundamentally wrong here.

[AnastaZIuk]

It's hard to quote parts of a screenshot, so I won't. Pro-tip: paste text as text, not as a picture, in the future.

oh right, sorry

well I can see that this script uses almost everywhere delayed expansion or variable expansion, and in this line https://github.com/git-for-windows/MINGW-packages/blob/05e0ebb4a53a6d58aa49c57a4a7040f149533473/mingw-w64-git/start-ssh-agent.cmd#L83 I created issue for it seems the syntax is incorrect? https://ss64.com/nt/delayedexpansion.html I'm not an expert in batch/cmd scripting, but this line simply doesn't work in my cmd

[dscho]

this line simply doesn't work in my cmd

The concern I have is that it might actually work as designed and that something in the command preceding it goes wrong, and we would only paper over that.

[mfriedrich74]

Also please note that the proposed patch changes the check from not >=1 to <>1

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