Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] git-p4: failure because of RCS keywords should show help

From: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 11, 2019, 11:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20191211112908.GA41678@generichostname>
In-Reply-To: <50e9a175c3323074ceec848c0d4054edd240e862.1575991375.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 03:22:54PM +0000, Ben Keene via GitGitGadget wrote:

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> From: Ben Keene <seraphire@gmail.com>
> 
> When applying a commit fails because of RCS keywords, Git
> will fail the P4 submit. It would help the user if Git suggested that
> the user set git-p4.attemptRCSCleanup to true.
> 
> Change the applyCommit() method that when applying a commit fails
> becasue of the P4 RCS Keywords, the user should consider setting
> git-p4.attemptRCSCleanup to true.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Keene <seraphire@gmail.com>
> ---
>  git-p4.py | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
> index 174200bb6c..cb594baeef 100755
> --- a/git-p4.py
> +++ b/git-p4.py
> @@ -1959,6 +1959,14 @@ def applyCommit(self, id):
>                          for f in editedFiles:
>                              p4_revert(f)
>                          raise
> +            else:
> +                # They do not have attemptRCSCleanup set, this might be the fail point
> +                # Check to see if the file has RCS keywords and suggest setting the property.
> +                for file in editedFiles | filesToDelete:
> +                    if p4_keywords_regexp_for_file(file) != None:

small nit: we should use `is not None` here.

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> +                        print("At least one file in this commit has RCS Keywords that may be causing problems. ")
> +                        print("Consider:\ngit config git-p4.attemptRCSCleanup true")
> +                        break
>  
>              if fixed_rcs_keywords:
>                  print("Retrying the patch with RCS keywords cleaned up")
> -- 
> gitgitgadget