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Re: [PATCH] git-p4: chdir now properly sets PWD environment variable in msysGit

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Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>
Date
Aug 5, 2008, 08:24 UTC
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<200808051031.00121.simon@lst.de>
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On Sunday 03 August 2008 23:13:42 Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> "Robert Blum" <rob.blum@gmail.com> writes:
> > P4 on Windows expects the PWD environment variable to be set to the
> > current working dir, but os.chdir in python doesn't do that by default
>
> Missing full stop at the end of sentence aside, this comment makes me
> wonder if there is an optional way to have it set it, as opposed to the
> inconvenient way it behaves "by defualt".  If there is none, I think your
> patch, even though it looks ugly, is the least evil approach.  Another way
> might be to wrap callsites of system() by introducing a "run_p4" function,
> like:
>
> 	def run_p4(arg):
>         	os.environ['PWD'] = os.getcwd() if os.name == 'nt'
> 		return system(arg)
>
> > ---
> >
> > Pushing it out to the list since I'm not entirely sure who the git-p4
> > owner even is. CC'ed likely suspects for ownership ;)
>
> Thanks.  I've been waiting for an Ack from somewhere or success reports
> from p4 users on Windows.
Acked-by: Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>
It may not be the prettiest solution, but I agree it needs to be solved :)
Simon
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Message 3 of 8 in “git-p4: chdir now properly sets PWD environment variable in msysGit”
  1. git-p4: chdir now properly sets PWD environment variable in msysGitRobert Blum, Aug 1, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 3, 2008
  3. Simon HausmannAug 5, 2008
  4. Han-Wen NienhuysAug 4, 2008
  5. Alex RiesenAug 5, 2008
  6. Fwd: [PATCH] git-p4: chdir now properly sets PWD environment variable in msysGitRobert Blum, Aug 4, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2008
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2008

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