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Re: git-p4 uses -h for host instead of -H

From
PWPete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Date
Feb 22, 2012, 01:23 UTC
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<20120222012326.GA870@padd.com>
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mezner@russellmyers.com wrote on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:35 -0500:
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> In attempting to use the git-p4 plugin I ran into an issue when the host
> argument was specified using the -h argument instead of the -H argument for
> the host. As a result, I found that instead of git-p4 specifying a host, it
> gets help information. Correcting this issue allowed me to clone without
> issue. I've attached a patch of what I did to fix the issue if this is
> indeed believed to be an issue.

Ack to this. Looks like the bug has been in there since the feature of git-p4.host was introduced in abcaf07 (If the user has configured various parameters, use them., 2008-08-10).

Thanks for the fix.
		-- Pete
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> From 2f6c91282c98ca0a45269524ec74655f76921ec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Russell Myers <mezner@russellmyers.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:18:54 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] Changing host argument to -H from -h. Based on
>  http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4guide/03_using.html
>  '-H' is the apporpriate flag while '-h' is a flag passed
>  for help content.
> 
> ---
>  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 a78d9c5..d2fd265 100755
> --- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
> +++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def p4_build_cmd(cmd):
>  
>      host = gitConfig("git-p4.host")
>      if len(host) > 0:
> -        real_cmd += ["-h", host]
> +        real_cmd += ["-H", host]
>  
>      client = gitConfig("git-p4.client")
>      if len(client) > 0:
> -- 
> 1.7.5.4
> 
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  1. Russell MyersFeb 22, 2012
  2. Pete WyckoffFeb 22, 2012

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