Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] git-p4: add test case for "Translation of file content failed" error

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 06:40:13 +0200

On 09/14/2015 06:55 PM, [email-masked] wrote:
> From: Lars Schneider <[email-masked]>
>
> A P4 repository can get into a state where it contains a file with
> type UTF-16 that does not contain a valid UTF-16 BOM. If git-p4
> attempts to retrieve the file then the process crashes with a
> "Translation of file content failed" error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <[email-masked]>
> ---
>   t/t9824-git-p4-handle-utf16-without-bom.sh | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100755 t/t9824-git-p4-handle-utf16-without-bom.sh
>
> diff --git a/t/t9824-git-p4-handle-utf16-without-bom.sh b/t/t9824-git-p4-handle-utf16-without-bom.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000..fa8043b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/t/t9824-git-p4-handle-utf16-without-bom.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +test_description='git p4 handle UTF-16 without BOM'
> +
> +. ./lib-git-p4.sh
> +
> +UTF16="\\x97\\x0\\x97\\x0"
> +
> +test_expect_success 'start p4d' '
> +	start_p4d
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'init depot with UTF-16 encoded file and artificially remove BOM' '
> +	(
> +		cd "$cli" &&
> +		echo "file1 -text" > .gitattributes &&
Please no space between '>' and the filename,
(this is our coding standard, and the same further down)

> +		perl -e "printf \"$UTF16\"" >file1 &&
Ehh, do we need perl here ?
This will invoke a process-fork, which costs time and cpu load.
The following works for me:
printf '\227\000\227\000' >file1