Re: [PATCH 1/1] p4 unshelve: fix "Not a valid object name HEAD0"
- From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- May 15, 2019, 05:25 UTC
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- <xmqqd0kk70ib.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
- In-Reply-To
- <fc580e902bedb92b5caea8047c1ddd1c9fc822f6.1557502383.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
"Mike Mueller via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
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> From: Mike Mueller <mike.mueller@moodys.com> > > git p4 unshelve was failing with these errors on Windows: > > fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD0 > Command failed: git cat-file commit HEAD^0 > > (git version 2.21.0.windows.1, python 2.7.16) > > The pOpen call used by git-p4 to invoke the git command can take either a > string or an array as a first argument. The array form is preferred > however the extractLogMessageFromGitCommit method was using the string > form, which makes the caller responsible for escaping the command text > appropriately (see https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html)
Rewrite the sentence that begin with "The array form is preferred...", as it is somewhat unreadable. "X is preferred because Y; however Z was using the other one" would be understandable.
> Somewhat ironically, the carat character is the escape character in
s/carat/caret/ everywhere.
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> Windows and so should be escaped (HEAD^^0). Without the extra carat, the
> OS was passing an escaped 0 to the git command instead, and the git
> command was rejecting the invalid object name "HEAD0"
>
> The behaviour can be confirmed by typing ECHO HEAD^0 at the command-
> prompt, which emits HEAD0.
>
> The solution is simply to use the array format of passing the command to
> fOpen, which is preferred and used in other parts of this code anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Mueller <mike.mueller@moodys.com>
> ---
> git-p4.py | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
> index 5b79920f46..0b5bfcbc5e 100755
> --- a/git-p4.py
> +++ b/git-p4.py
> @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ def extractLogMessageFromGitCommit(commit):
>
> ## fixme: title is first line of commit, not 1st paragraph.
> foundTitle = False
> - for log in read_pipe_lines("git cat-file commit %s" % commit):
> + for log in read_pipe_lines(["git", "cat-file", "commit", commit]):
> if not foundTitle:
> if len(log) == 1:
> foundTitle = True