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From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: "Lars Schneider" <larsxschneider@gmail.com>,
	"Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, luke@diamand.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] git-p4: add "--path-encoding" option
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:35:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E5B798.40108@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6BD3F017-37E4-4677-BCCE-D84E7031B780@gmail.com>

On 2015-09-01 14.47, Lars Schneider wrote:
>>> +test_expect_success 'Create a repo containing iso8859-1 encoded paths' '
>>> >> +	cd "$cli" &&
>>> >> +
>>> >> +	ISO8859="$(printf "$UTF8_ESCAPED" | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso8859-1)" &&
>>> >> +	>"$ISO8859" &&
>>> >> +	p4 add "$ISO8859" &&
>>> >> +	p4 submit -d "test commit"
>>> >> +'
>> > Sorry for being persistant,
>> > but you can't create files with names that  are ISO-8859-1 encoded under Mac OS,
>> > we end up like this:
>> > 
>> > a-%E4_o-%F6_u-%FC.txt
> You are right. However, my goal is not to create a file with ISO-8859-1 characters in Mac OS. My goal is to create this file in Perforce and this approach seems to work.
> 
>> > 
But this line creates a file, doesn't it ?
>"$ISO8859" &&

(I just wonder how this works on you machine )

And, may be, we could fill the file with some content, to be double-sure that
the file name conversion works with Perforce ?

like
echo content >"$ISO8859" &&

and test the content later ?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-01 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-31 22:10 [PATCH v3] git-p4: add "--path-encoding" option larsxschneider
2015-08-31 22:10 ` larsxschneider
2015-08-31 23:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-01 13:42     ` Lars Schneider
2015-09-01 17:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-01 17:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-01 18:55         ` Lars Schneider
2015-09-01 19:06           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-09-01  4:37   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-09-01  7:14     ` Fwd: " Torsten Bögershausen
2015-09-01 12:47     ` Lars Schneider
2015-09-01 14:35       ` Torsten Bögershausen [this message]
2015-09-01 15:02         ` Lars Schneider

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