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Re: [PATCH] Support different branch layouts in git-p4

From
IWIan Wienand <ianw@vmware.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2011, 03:46 UTC
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Thanks for the review
On 07/02/11 15:27, Tor Arvid Lund wrote:
> I'm just guessing from memory regarding these patterns, but assuming
> that the section separator is exactly the string '... ' seems risky,
> no? :)
Good point.  If we go past the end of the depot ...'s, then the rest
of the line strip()ed should just be the client I guess.
 
> What if a line doesn't end with "..." ? Maybe add an "if cv_index>= 0"
I think it would mess us up.  I put in a failure case for this.
On 07/02/11 17:22, Pete Wyckoff wrote:
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> If you look at "p4 help views", they have lots of oddities
> that in theory should be accounted for here.  It doesn't
> even mention the thing about quotes, but obviously that is
> supported.  Wildcards ... and * can appear multiple
> times.  And %%[1-9] can be used to reorder the path.  Also the
> order of lines matters, and "+" can be used to merge entries.
> Whew.

Those %%'s would also mess us up, I put in an escape hatch for that too.

I'm pretty sure this covers the majority of cases; if people have really weird clients I guess they're going to have to do some more work to get git-p4 to recognise it properly. Personally, I struggle to see why it is a feature to have every user re-organsing their views of the tree -- it seems to move a lot of uncaptured state to the client side. anyway...

So here's another version; I agree some testing would be good as I've only run it locally on //depot/proj/branch clients

-i
---
diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
index 04ce7e3..3304f36 100755
--- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
@@ -910,6 +910,22 @@ class P4Sync(Command):
         return files
 
     def stripRepoPath(self, path, prefixes):
+        if self.useClientSpec:
+
+            # if using the client spec, we use the output directory
+            # specified in the client.  For example, a view
+            #   //depot/foo/branch/... //client/branch/foo/...
+            # will end up putting all foo/branch files into
+            #  branch/foo/
+            for val in self.clientSpecDirs:
+                if path.startswith(val[0]):
+                    # replace the depot path with the client path
+                    path = path.replace(val[0], val[1][1])
+                    # now strip out the client (//client/...)
+                    path = re.sub("^(//[^/]+/)", '', path)
+                    # the rest is all path
+                    return path
+
         if self.keepRepoPath:
             prefixes = [re.sub("^(//[^/]+/).*", r'\1', prefixes[0])]
 
@@ -1032,7 +1048,7 @@ class P4Sync(Command):
             includeFile = True
             for val in self.clientSpecDirs:
                 if f['path'].startswith(val[0]):
-                    if val[1] <= 0:
+                    if val[1][0] <= 0:
                         includeFile = False
                     break
 
@@ -1475,19 +1491,45 @@ class P4Sync(Command):
         for entry in specList:
             for k,v in entry.iteritems():
                 if k.startswith("View"):
+
+                    # p4 has these %%1 to %%9 arguments in specs to
+                    # reorder paths; which we can't handle (yet :)
+                    if re.match('\%\%d', v) != None:
+                        print "Sorry, can't handle %%n arguments in client specs"
+                        sys.exit(1)
+
                     if v.startswith('"'):
                         start = 1
                     else:
                         start = 0
                     index = v.find("...")
+
+                    # save the "client view"; i.e the RHS of the view
+                    # line that tells the client where to put the
+                    # files for this view.
+                    cv = v[index+3:].strip() # +3 to remove previous '...'
+
+                    # if the client view doesn't end with a
+                    # ... wildcard, then we're going to mess up the
+                    # output directory, so fail gracefully.
+                    if not cv.endswith('...'):
+                        print 'Sorry, client view in "%s" needs to end with wildcard' % (k)
+                        sys.exit(1)
+                    cv=cv[:-3]
+
+                    # now save the view; +index means included, -index
+                    # means it should be filtered out.
                     v = v[start:index]
                     if v.startswith("-"):
                         v = v[1:]
-                        temp[v] = -len(v)
+                        include = -len(v)
                     else:
-                        temp[v] = len(v)
+                        include = len(v)
+
+                    temp[v] = (include, cv)
+
         self.clientSpecDirs = temp.items()
-        self.clientSpecDirs.sort( lambda x, y: abs( y[1] ) - abs( x[1] ) )
+        self.clientSpecDirs.sort( lambda x, y: abs( y[1][0] ) - abs( x[1][0] ) )
 
     def run(self, args):
         self.depotPaths = []
diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4.txt b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4.txt
index 49b3359..e09da44 100644
--- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4.txt
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4.txt
@@ -191,6 +191,11 @@ git-p4.useclientspec
 
   git config [--global] git-p4.useclientspec false
 
+The P4CLIENT environment variable should be correctly set for p4 to be
+able to find the relevant client.  This client spec will be used to
+both filter the files cloned by git and set the directory layout as
+specified in the client (this implies --keep-path style semantics).
+
 Implementation Details...
 =========================
 
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  1. Support different branch layouts in git-p4Ian Wienand, Feb 1, 2011
  2. Tor Arvid LundFeb 5, 2011
  3. Ian WienandFeb 7, 2011
  4. Tor Arvid LundFeb 7, 2011
  5. Ian WienandFeb 9, 2011
  6. Pete WyckoffFeb 10, 2011
  7. Pete WyckoffFeb 8, 2011

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