Re: [PATCH 4/4] git-p4: resolve RCS keywords in binary

>> Makes sense, and I am with others who commented on the previous
>> discussion thread that the right approach to take is to take the stuff coming
>> from Perforce as byte strings, process them as such and write them out as
>> byte strings, UNLESS we positively know what the source and destination
>> encodings are.
>> 
>> And this change we see here, matching with patterns, is perfectly in line with
>> that direction.  Very nice.
>
> Not bad. Fortunately, it's not possible for $ characters to appear as a component of a multi-byte UTF-8 character, so it's possible to do the matching byte-wise.
>
>> 
>> >          try:
>> > -            with os.fdopen(handle, "w+") as outFile, open(file, "r") as inFile:
>> > +            with os.fdopen(handle, "wb") as outFile, open(file, "rb") as inFile:
>> 
>> We seem to have lost "w+" and now it is "wb".  I do not see a reason to make
>> outFile anything but write-only, so the end result looks good to me, but is it
>> an unrelated "bug"fix that should be explained as such (e.g. "there is no
>> reason to make outFile read-write, so instead of using 'w+' just use 'wb'
>> while we make it unencoded output by adding 'b' to it")?
>
> I am happy to split this change into a separate patch if this is preferred.