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Re: [PATCH] git-p4: remove tabs from usermap file

From
Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>
Date
Feb 27, 2009, 20:50 UTC
Message-ID
<200902272150.55132.simon@lst.de>
In-Reply-To
<20090227185359.GA18102@padd.com>
On Friday 27 February 2009 19:53:59 Pete Wyckoff wrote:
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> Some users have tabs in their names, oddly enough.  This
> causes problems when loading the usercache from disk,
> as split separates the fields on the wrong tabs.  When
> fast-import's parse_ident() tries to parse the committer
> field, it is unhappy about the unbalanced <..> angle brackets.
>
> It is easy enough to convert the tabs to single spaces.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
> ---
> Here's another random little fix.  We have a user
> Firstname\tLastname who checked something in recently and
> broke my git-p4 conversion.
>
> I need to send the other acked patch to Junio; will wait
> and give him two if you ack this one.
Looks good to me :-)
Acked-by: Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>

Thanks, Simon

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>  contrib/fast-import/git-p4 |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
> index 3832f60..342529d 100755
> --- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
> +++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
> @@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ class P4Sync(Command):
>
>          s = ''
>          for (key, val) in self.users.items():
> -            s += "%s\t%s\n" % (key, val)
> +	    s += "%s\t%s\n" % (key.expandtabs(1), val.expandtabs(1))
>
>          open(self.getUserCacheFilename(), "wb").write(s)
>          self.userMapFromPerforceServer = True
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