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Re: [PATCH 0/5] git p4: fix branch detection with --use-client-spec

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 12, 2012, 04:41 UTC
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Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> writes:
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> matthew@korich.net wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:14 -0700:
>> Using git p4 on git version 1.7.12.rc2 has path issues. Standard
>> clone/sync ops apparently place detected master and branches on
>> independent and parallel directory structures instead of git branches.
>> See http://stackoverflow.com/q/11893688/1588831 for a full demo of the problem.
>
> Thank you for the detailed report.  It is a bug in 1.7.12-rc2.

Do you mean "a feature that was present in 1.7.11 without this bug was broken when used with 1.7.12-rc2"? Or do you mean "this bug exists in 1.7.12-rc2 (older versions may or may not have it, but I am stressing that it is not fixed)"?

The description for [PATCH 5/5] blames v1.7.9-rc0~4^2~1, which tells me it is the latter. And if that were the case, and if this were in the area of the system I oversee, I wouldn't push it to the upcoming release at this late in the cycle, when I do not know what other things it might break while fixing this bug (in other words, a fix to an old bug is not an execuse to introduce a regression).

But git-p4 is not in my area, so if you meant this should go in the upcoming 1.7.12 release, I'll queue them directly on 'master'.

Please tell me what your preference is.
Thanks.
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> This series fixes it, on top of origin/master.
>
> The crux of the matter is that files are mapped into the wrong
> locations in git when both --use-client-spec and --branch-detection
> are enabled.
>
> Pete Wyckoff (5):
>   git p4 test: move client_view() function to library
>   git p4 test: add broken --use-client-spec --detect-branches tests
>   git p4: set self.branchPrefixes in initialization
>   git p4: do wildcard decoding in stripRepoPath
>   git p4: make branch detection work with --use-client-spec
>
>  git-p4.py                     | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  t/lib-git-p4.sh               | 18 ++++++++++
>  t/t9801-git-p4-branch.sh      | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  t/t9809-git-p4-client-view.sh | 17 ----------
>  4 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
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Message 8 of 10 in “git-p4 migrates perforce “main” branch into git branches as subdirectories (doubled code in git branches)”
  1. Matthew KorichAug 10, 2012
  2. 0/5 git p4: fix branch detection with --use-client-specPete Wyckoff, Aug 11, 2012
  3. 1/5 git p4 test: move client_view() function to libraryPete Wyckoff, Aug 11, 2012
  4. 2/5 git p4 test: add broken --use-client-spec --detect-branches testsPete Wyckoff, Aug 11, 2012
  5. 3/5 git p4: set self.branchPrefixes in initializationPete Wyckoff, Aug 11, 2012
  6. 4/5 git p4: do wildcard decoding in stripRepoPathPete Wyckoff, Aug 11, 2012
  7. 5/5 git p4: make branch detection work with --use-client-specPete Wyckoff, Aug 11, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2012
  9. Pete WyckoffAug 12, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 12, 2012

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