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

1 messages from 2011-09-23 to 2011-09-23. Participants: Luke Diamand.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/28471

## Luke Diamand, 2011-09-23 19:38

Subject: [BUG] git-p4 can't cope with dollars in filenames
Message-ID: <4E7CE053.2020309@diamand.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4E7CE053.2020309%40diamand.org

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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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