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From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd•com>
To: Evan Powers <evan.powers@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, gitster@pobox•com,
	Simon Hausmann <simon@lst•de>, Luke Diamand <luke@diamand•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-p4: fix bug in symlink handling
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:05:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100220140500.GA23423@arf.padd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6682cfcf1002160044i7aacd1b0t7bb351380b1bd27c@mail.gmail.com>

evan.powers@gmail•com wrote on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:44 -0800:
> Fix inadvertent breakage from b932705 in the code that strips the
> trailing '\n' from p4 print on a symlink. (In practice, contents is of
> the form ['target\n', ''].)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Evan Powers <evan.powers@gmail•com>

Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd•com>

This was indeed an inadvertent bug introduced by that commit.
Old code just appended all the data sections so did not see the
null.  This fix works for me.

		-- Pete

> ---
> This patch Works For Me, but I didn't take the time to understand the
> entire code path so it might be equally valid to replace contents.pop()
> with contents.pop(0) and call it a day.
> 
>  contrib/fast-import/git-p4 |    5 ++---
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
> index e7c4814..cd96c6f 100755
> --- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
> +++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
> @@ -967,9 +967,8 @@ class P4Sync(Command):
>          elif file["type"] == "symlink":
>              mode = "120000"
>              # p4 print on a symlink contains "target\n", so strip it off
> -            last = contents.pop()
> -            last = last[:-1]
> -            contents.append(last)
> +            data = ''.join(contents)
> +            contents = [data[:-1]]
> 
>          if self.isWindows and file["type"].endswith("text"):
>              mangled = []
> -- 
> 1.6.6
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-20 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-16  8:44 [PATCH] git-p4: fix bug in symlink handling Evan Powers
2010-02-20 14:05 ` Pete Wyckoff [this message]
2010-02-20 19:22   ` Junio C Hamano

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