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[BUG] git-p4 can't cope with dollars in filenames

Subject: [BUG] git-p4 can't cope with dollars in filenames

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One message between Sep 23, 2011 and Sep 23, 2011.

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Luke Diamand· Sep 23, 2011, 19:38 UTC · lore
Hi!

If you have a dollar in a filename and attempt to submit it to Perforce via git-p4 it fails.

e.g. this sequence:

% touch foo\$bar.c % git commit -m 'whatever' foo\$bar.c % git-p4 submit

.... .... Submit aborted -- fix problems then use 'p4 submit -c 3'.

The problem is all the places that use the git-p4 read_pipe() function, which is a wrapper around os.popen(). popen() does shell expansion which does hilarious things to files with dollars in their name.

You can have hours of fun and entertainment with this. Adding a file called foo\`fortune\`.h is especially amusing.

I'm going to try to come up with a fix for this.
Luke

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