From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:49:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [git-p4] Detect exec bit in more cases.
Message-ID: <20070919194944.GA11271@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <56b7f5510709191231g22385e32y9c34d711d65b3bb7@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:31:52PM -0700, Dana How wrote:
>On 9/19/07, David Brown <git@davidb.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:03:50PM +0200, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>> >On Wednesday 19 September 2007 20:15:03 David Brown wrote:
>> >> git-p4 was missing the execute bit setting if the file had other attribute
>> >> bits set.
>> >
>> >I'm fine with this, so unless you find a better way:
>>
>> Well, I just tested it, and it still doesn't work, so I need to take some
>> time and try to figure out what is happening.
>>
>> I'm sometimes getting back 'xtext', and sometimes things like 'text+mx'
>> back from perforce, so I need to read up, and really figure out what to
>> look for.
>
>The output of "git p4 filetypes" was enough for me
>when I wrote my p4 front-end to fast-import;
>I never did read the p4 manual.

I have a patch based on what 'p4 help filetypes'.  I'm running it now on a
large test repository, and I'll compare the results when it is done.
Provided it works, I'll send a new patch in a little bit.

David