Re: State of Perforce importing.

From: Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2007, 18:23 UTC
Message-ID: <3f4fd2640709191123j64b53878vc96d785c13c3bca2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070919171243.GA23902@old.davidb.org>

On 19/09/2007, David Brown <git@davidb.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:19:11AM +0200, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>
> >> An additional problem:
> >>
> >>    - git-p4 doesn't preserve the execute permission bit from Perforce.
> >
> >Hmm, can you paste the output of
> >
> >       p4 fstat //path/in/depot/to/file/that/is/imported/incorrectly
> >
> >? I'm interested in the type of the file that p4 reports.
>
>    headType kxtext
>
> so the problem is that the git-p4 is only looking for an 'x' at the start.
> According to 'p4 help filetypes', we need to use execute for any of:
>
>    cxtext, kxtext, uxbinary,  and the others that start with 'x'.
>
> I think it would be sufficient to check the first or second character for
> an 'x'.  I'll make a change and give it a try later today.

These are the old file types. If you read the output of `p4 help filetypes`, the new way of specifying this is with file type modifiers. Therefore, you also have things like text+x.

- Reece