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* [BUG] git-p4 can't cope with dollars in filenames
@ 2011-09-23 19:38 Luke Diamand
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From: Luke Diamand @ 2011-09-23 19:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Git List; +Cc: Pete Wyckoff

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

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