I spent some time trying to debug this problem but couldn't resolve it myself. It is a huge pain and if I happen to find a fix I will definitely post an update but right now I have given up.
Hopefully someone smarter than myself finds a way to fix this because it is a nightmare to delete/rename files with git and submit back to perforce.
Lance
On Jul 9, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Thomas Berg wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Lance Linder <llinder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Until recently I have been successfully using git-p4 with much joy and
>> happiness. Then suddenly git-p4 submit started throwing "Command
>> failed: p4 diff -du ..." when ever I delete or move a file.
>>
>> We recently upgraded our perforce server ( Rev.
>> P4D/NTX86/2009.2/238357 (2010/03/15) ). It was about this time that
>> the problem came up. First thing I did of course was upgrade to the
>> latest version of git ( now on 1.7.1 ) but the problem still persists.
>> Next I updated my p4 client ( Rev. P4/MACOSX104U/2009.2/238357
>> (2010/03/15) ) but still same problem. All other submits work fine as
>> long as there are not any deletions or moves.
> [...]
>>
>> Anyone else seeing these issues?
>
>
> Indeed, we just upgraded our Perforce server too, and now I'm getting
> this exact error. Did you find a solution to the problem?
>
> If not I'm very interested in solving it. Seems like the p4 diff
> command has changed behaviour and broken the git-p4 script.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
Lance Linder <llinder@gmail.com>