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From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
To: Chris Li <git@chrisli.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-p4: import utf16 file properly
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:56:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E70F8DB.8080008@diamand.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANeU7QnW5kSni0W9M9q-FTWv4p_qc67LG3mA6BQj_U-wxNuZeQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 14/09/11 19:29, Chris Li wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Luke Diamand<luke@diamand.org>  wrote:
>> On 13/09/11 22:33, Chris Li wrote:
>>> The fix is simple, just ask perforce to print the depot
>>> file into a real file. This way perforce will not performe
>>> the utf16 to utf8 conversion. Git can import the exact same
>>> file as perforce checkout.
>>
>> Does this change do the right thing with RCS keywords in UTF16 files?
>
> I don't know what is the rules about the RCS keyword in UTF16 files.
> I look at the current git-p4, it does not do any keyword replacement in
> utf16 files. So this patch did not change that. It should be a separate issue.
>
> The way I see it, this patch is a straight enhancement compare to the
> current git-p4 because the current git-p4 *corrupts* the utf16 files.
>
>>
>> If p4CmdList() fails, e.g. due to running out of diskspace, will this just
>> happily import a truncated/corrupt file?
>
> Good point. I add the error check and attach the new patch.
>
>> (And I could be wrong about this, but does you patch have newline damage? It
>> didn't seem to apply for me).

Looks good to me. I think you're right about the RCS keywords not being 
relevant here.



>
> Gmail dmage the white space. I should always use the attachment.
> Does the attached patch work for you?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-14 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-13 21:33 [PATCH] git-p4: import utf16 file properly Chris Li
2011-09-14  7:55 ` Luke Diamand
2011-09-14 18:29   ` Chris Li
2011-09-14 18:39     ` Chris Li
2011-09-18  1:19       ` Pete Wyckoff
2011-09-14 18:56     ` Luke Diamand [this message]

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