Subject: [PATCH] git-p4: fix failed submit by skip non-text data files

From: "dorgon chang via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 07:47:49 +0000

From: "dorgon.chang" <[email-masked]>

If the submit contain binary files, it will throw exception and stop submit when try to append diff line description.

This commit will skip non-text data files when exception UnicodeDecodeError thrown.

Signed-off-by: dorgon.chang <[email-masked]>
---
    git-p4: fix failed submit by skip non-text data files
    
    git-p4: fix failed submit by skip non-text data files
    
    If the submit contain binary files, it will throw exception and stop
    submit when try to append diff line description.
    
    This commit will skip non-text data files when exception
    UnicodeDecodeError thrown.
    
    I am using git-p4 with UnrealEngine game projects and this fix works for
    me.
    
    Signed-off-by: dorgon.chang [email-masked]

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-977%2Fdorgonman%2Fdorgon%2Ffix_gitp4_get_diff_description-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-977/dorgonman/dorgon/fix_gitp4_get_diff_description-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/977

 git-p4.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index 4433ca53de7e..29a8c202399a 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -1977,8 +1977,11 @@ def get_diff_description(self, editedFiles, filesToAdd, symlinks):
                 newdiff += "+%s\n" % os.readlink(newFile)
             else:
                 f = open(newFile, "r")
-                for line in f.readlines():
-                    newdiff += "+" + line
+                try:
+                    for line in f.readlines():
+                        newdiff += "+" + line
+                except UnicodeDecodeError:
+                    pass # Fond non-text data
                 f.close()
 
         return (diff + newdiff).replace('\r\n', '\n')

base-commit: d4a392452e292ff924e79ec8458611c0f679d6d4
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