Re: [PATCH v7] git-p4: improve path encoding verbose output

[Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>]

On 14/09/15 18:10, larsxschneider@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
>
> If a path with non-ASCII characters is detected then print always the

s/print always/print/


> encoding and the encoded string in verbose mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
> ---
>   git-p4.py | 19 +++++++++----------
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
> index d45cf2b..da25d3f 100755
> --- a/git-p4.py
> +++ b/git-p4.py
> @@ -2220,16 +2220,15 @@ class P4Sync(Command, P4UserMap):
>               text = regexp.sub(r'$\1$', text)
>               contents = [ text ]
>
> -        if gitConfig("git-p4.pathEncoding"):
> -            relPath = relPath.decode(gitConfig("git-p4.pathEncoding")).encode('utf8', 'replace')
> -        elif self.verbose:
> -            try:
> -                relPath.decode('ascii')
> -            except:
> -                print (
> -                    "Path with Non-ASCII characters detected and no path encoding defined. "
> -                    "Please check the encoding: %s" % relPath
> -                )
> +        try:
> +            relPath.decode('ascii')
> +        except:
> +            encoding = 'utf8'
> +            if gitConfig('git-p4.pathEncoding'):
> +                encoding = gitConfig('git-p4.pathEncoding')

It would be better to query this once at startup. Otherwise we're 
potentially forking "git config" twice per file which on a large repo 
could become significant. Make it an instance variable perhaps?

> +                relPath = relPath.decode(encoding).encode('utf8', 'replace')
> +            if self.verbose:
> +                print 'Path with non-ASCII characters detected. Used %s to encode: %s ' % (encoding, relPath)
>
>           self.gitStream.write("M %s inline %s\n" % (git_mode, relPath))
>
>