Re: [PATCH] git-remote-hg: set stdout to binary mode on win32

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Sorry Amit, I assumed this patch made it to the list, but I just
realized it didn't; it doesn't allow HTML, and mails and silently
dropped (I hate that).

So I'm sending it so the list can see it:

It seems OK for me, but I would like to try it, and so far I haven't
managed to access Mercurial libraries at all from python scripts in
Windows. What steps did you follow?

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Amit Bakshi <ambakshi@gmail.com> wrote:
> git clone hangs on windows (msysgit/cygwin), and
> file.write would return errno 22 inside of mercurial's
> windows.winstdout wrapper class. This patch sets
> stdout's mode to binary, fixing both issues.
> ---
>  contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
> b/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
> index 328c2dc..95f4c1f 100755
> --- a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
> +++ b/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
> @@ -62,6 +62,24 @@ def get_config(config):
>      output, _ = process.communicate()
>      return output
>
> +#
> +# On Windows (msysgit/cygwin) have to set stdout to binary
> +# mode (_O_BINARY is 32768). Otherwise clone hangs, and pushing
> +# to remote fails when doing a write to mercurial's wrapper
> +# windows.winstdout wrapper class.
> +#
> +def set_binmode(fd):
> +    try:
> +        if sys.platform == "win32":
> +            import msvcrt
> +            msvcrt.setmode(fd, os.O_BINARY)
> +        elif sys.platform  == 'cygwin':
> +            import ctypes
> +            msvcrt = ctypes.CDLL('msvcrt.dll')
> +            msvcrt._setmode(fd, 32768) # On Cygwin os.O_BINARY is different
> +    except OSError:
> +        pass
> +
>  class Marks:
>
>      def __init__(self, path):
> @@ -764,6 +782,9 @@ def main(args):
>      else:
>          is_tmp = False
>
> +    if sys.platform in ['win32','cygwin']:
> +        set_binmode(sys.stdout.fileno())
> +
>      gitdir = os.environ['GIT_DIR']
>      dirname = os.path.join(gitdir, 'hg', alias)
>      branches = {}
> --
> 1.8.1

-- 
Felipe Contreras