Re: [PATCH 0/2] git-p4: Improve client path detection

> Vitor Antunes <vitor.hda@gmail.com> writes:
>> Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> wrote on Sun, 05 Apr 2015 20:27:11 +0100
>>> Vitor, one thing I wondered about with this part of the change:
>>>
>>> -            if entry["depotFile"] == depotPath:
>>> +            if entry["depotFile"].find(depotPath) >= 0:
>>>
>>> Does this mean that if 'p4 where' produces multiple lines of output that
>>> this will get confused, as it's just going to search for an instance of
>>> depotPath.
>>
>> The reason why I introduced that was because in the test case I implemented (and
>> which reflects a scenario I am confronted with in my workplace) the branches
>> have a base directory that is removed in the client view mapping.
>> As such, we will have a situation where depotPath is //depot/branch1/ while
>> runninng "p4 where" will result in //depot/branch1/base/. To overcome this I
>> used find() instead of a direct comparison. Now that I think about that, I could
>> probably have used the simpler `if depotPath in entry["depotFile"]`...
>
> Hmph, is this find() under discussion the string.find() that finds a
> substring?  You are doing >=0 comparison here, but with your example
> that entry["depotFile"] may have "base/" appended to what you
> expect, the result of running string.find() must yield "0", i.e. no
> extra prefix string, no?  I kind of find it hard to believe that it
> is OK to have any extra prefix is fine ...

>>> The example in the Perforce man page for 'p4 where' would trigger this
>>> for example:
>>>
>>> http://www.perforce.com/perforce/r14.2/manuals/cmdref/p4_where.html
>>>
>>> -//a/b/file.txt //client/a/b/file.txt //home/user/root/a/b/file.txt
>>> //a/b/file.txt //client/b/file.txt /home/user/root/b/file.txt
>>
>> These are examples where a simple comparison as was implemented would work.
>
> ... so is this "find()" an attempt to catch prefix like "-"?  Even
> if it that were the reason why you do not limit the acceptable
> return value from find() to zero, it feels a bit too loose to allow
> anything if the only thing you want to allow is a single "-" prefix.

>>> As an experiment, I hacked git-p4 to always use p4Where rather than
>>> getClientRoot(), which I would have thought ought to work, but while
>>> most of the tests passed, Pete's client-spec torture tests failed.
>>
>> That was exactly my first approach and got to the same conclusion. I would have
>> investigated it further but since I haven't had much free time to invest in
>> solving this problem I decided to implement an intermediary solution that would
>> not introduce any regressions.