Subject: Re: is git-p4 compatible with p4/linux?

From: Pete Wyckoff <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:22:33 -0400

[email-masked] wrote on Sat, 20 Apr 2013 03:50 -0700:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Pete Wyckoff <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >> First issue
> >> -----------
> >>
> >> git-p4 assumes the output of 'p4 print' adds a newline to the
> >> target.  To work around this, git-p4.py strips the last char from
> >> symlinks as shown in the following snippet:
> >>
> >>     if type_base == "symlink":
> >>         git_mode = "120000"
> >>         # p4 print on a symlink contains "target\n"; remove the newline
> >>         data = ''.join(contents)
> >>         contents = [data[:-1]]
> 
> This line could be made more robust by changing it to:
> 
>     contents = [data.rstrip('\n')]
> 
> That way it only strips off newlines if they exist, which essentially
> papers over these rogue depot files.
> Alternatively, it could use rstrip() with no arguments to cast a wider
> net and catch all whitespace.

I was tempted to do that, but it is possible to put \n and other
space characters in the target of symlinks.  It's unfortunate
that p4 always appears to tack on a newline itself.

We'll see if Alex comes up with a pattern that shows how he ended
up with the odd symlinks.

		-- Pete