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From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Subject: Re: git-p4: exception when cloning a perforce repository
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damien@iwi.me wrote on Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:56 +0100:
> p4 fstat  //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h@59702 
> ... depotFile //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h
> ... headAction edit
> ... headType symlink
> ... headTime 1237906419
> ... headRev 2
> ... headChange 59702
> ... headModTime 1231329423
> 
> p4 print -q //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#2 | od -c
> 0000000
> 
> p4 print  //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#1        
> //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#1 - add change 59574 (text)
>  p4 print  //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#2
> //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#2 - edit change 59702 (symlink)

That's interesting.  When I do the equivalent "p4 print" commands
it shows something like this.

arf-git-test$ p4 fstat //depot/bn.h
... depotFile //depot/bn.h
... clientFile /dev/shm/trash directory.t9802-git-p4-filetype/cli/bn.h
... isMapped 
... headAction edit
... headType symlink
... headTime 1389876870
... headRev 2
... headChange 8
... headModTime 1389876870
... haveRev 2

arf-git-test$ p4 print //depot/bn.h#1
//depot/bn.h#1 - add change 7 (text)
file-text

arf-git-test$ p4 print //depot/bn.h#2
//depot/bn.h#2 - edit change 8 (symlink)
/elsewhere/bn.h

I don't know how you manage to get a symlink with an empty
destination like that.

I'll work on a way to hack around this failure.  In the mean time,
if you're game, it might be fun to see what p4 does with such a
repository.  You could make a client for just that little subdir,
check out at 59702 and see what is there:

mkdir testmess
cd testmess
cat <<EOF | p4 client -i
Client: testmess
Description: testmess
Root: $(pwd)
View: //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/... //testmess/...
EOF

then take a look at how p4 represents the "empty" symlink
in the filesystem:

p4 sync @59702
ls -la bn.h

		-- Pete