Re: State of Perforce importing.

From: Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2007, 18:56 UTC
Message-ID: <3f4fd2640709191156q18d8eb1cg609f0ad209cf8144@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070919182545.GA2266@old.davidb.org>

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

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> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:23:41PM +0100, Reece Dunn wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> So my patch I just sent may not be sufficient.  Thing is, we set the file
> type as 'text+x' and it comes back as xtext, so I'm not sure if P4 ever
> gives out text+x or if that is just available as a new way of specifying
> them.

I'm not sure. The Perforce help says that xtext and its variants are there for backward compatibility. If you are running an older server with a new client, or the other way around, they may be doing a map from text+x to xtext so that the old version can work properly. This is just speculation, though.

I don't know enough to say what Perforce is doing. I find it strange that it is reporting xtext, when you specified text+x.

Have you tried a combination that is not supported? Is xunicode supported, in which case you could try unicode+x (if you have a file that you can experiment with)?

- Reece