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From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Subject: [BUG] git-p4 can't cope with dollars in filenames
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:38:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7CE053.2020309@diamand.org> (raw)

Hi!

If you have a dollar in a filename and attempt to submit it to Perforce 
via git-p4 it fails.

e.g. this sequence:

% touch foo\$bar.c
% git commit -m 'whatever' foo\$bar.c
% git-p4 submit

....
....
Submit aborted -- fix problems then use 'p4 submit -c 3'.

The problem is all the places that use the git-p4 read_pipe() function, 
which is a wrapper around os.popen(). popen() does shell expansion which 
does hilarious things to files with dollars in their name.

You can have hours of fun and entertainment with this. Adding a file 
called foo\`fortune\`.h is especially amusing.

I'm going to try to come up with a fix for this.

Luke

                 reply	other threads:[~2011-09-23 19:39 UTC|newest]

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