# [PATCH v5] git-p4: add config git-p4.pathEncoding

6 messages from 2015-09-02 to 2015-09-04. Participants: larsxschneider@gmail.com, Luke Diamand, Remi Galan Alfonso, Lars Schneider.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/40251

## larsxschneider@gmail.com, 2015-09-02 20:39

Subject: [PATCH v5] git-p4: add config git-p4.pathEncoding
Message-ID: <1441226355-61103-1-git-send-email-larsxschneider@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1441226355-61103-1-git-send-email-larsxschneider%40gmail.com

```
From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>

Diff to v4:
* add verbose output
* reword help text
* remove comment how to generate encoded sequence
* use ascii characters in encoded sequence where possible
* wrap 'cd' in TC in a subshell

Thanks to Eric, Torsten, and Junio for feedback!

Cheers,
Lars

Lars Schneider (1):
  git-p4: add config git-p4.pathEncoding

 Documentation/git-p4.txt        |  7 +++++
 git-p4.py                       | 11 ++++++++
 t/t9822-git-p4-path-encoding.sh | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 78 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 t/t9822-git-p4-path-encoding.sh

--
1.9.5 (Apple Git-50.3)

```

## larsxschneider@gmail.com, 2015-09-02 20:39

Subject: [PATCH v5] git-p4: add config git-p4.pathEncoding
Message-ID: <1441226355-61103-2-git-send-email-larsxschneider@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1441226355-61103-2-git-send-email-larsxschneider%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <1441226355-61103-1-git-send-email-larsxschneider@gmail.com>

```
From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>

Perforce keeps the encoding of a path as given by the originating OS.
Git expects paths encoded as UTF-8. Add a config to tell git-p4 what
encoding Perforce had used for the paths. This encoding is used to
transcode the paths to UTF-8. As an example, Perforce on Windows often
uses “cp1252” to encode path names.

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-p4.txt        |  7 +++++
 git-p4.py                       | 11 ++++++++
 t/t9822-git-p4-path-encoding.sh | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 78 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 t/t9822-git-p4-path-encoding.sh

diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
index 82aa5d6..7b7a57d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
@@ -510,6 +510,13 @@ git-p4.useClientSpec::
 	option '--use-client-spec'.  See the "CLIENT SPEC" section above.
 	This variable is a boolean, not the name of a p4 client.
 
+git-p4.pathEncoding::
+	Perforce keeps the encoding of a path as given by the originating OS.
+	Git expects paths encoded as UTF-8. Use this config to tell git-p4 
+	what encoding Perforce had used for the paths. This encoding is used
+	to transcode the paths to UTF-8. As an example, Perforce on Windows
+	often uses “cp1252” to encode path names.
+
 Submit variables
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 git-p4.detectRenames::
diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index 073f87b..b1ad86d 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -2213,6 +2213,17 @@ class P4Sync(Command, P4UserMap):
             text = regexp.sub(r'$\1$', text)
             contents = [ text ]
 
+        if gitConfig("git-p4.pathEncoding"):
+            relPath = relPath.decode(gitConfig("git-p4.pathEncoding")).encode('utf8', 'replace')
+        elif self.verbose:
+            try:
+                relPath.decode('ascii')
+            except:
+                print (
+                    "Path with Non-ASCII characters detected and no path encoding defined. "
+                    "Please check the encoding: %s" % relPath
+                )
+
         self.gitStream.write("M %s inline %s\n" % (git_mode, relPath))
 
         # total length...
diff --git a/t/t9822-git-p4-path-encoding.sh b/t/t9822-git-p4-path-encoding.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3646580
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t9822-git-p4-path-encoding.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='Clone repositories with non ASCII paths'
+
+. ./lib-git-p4.sh
+
+UTF8_ESCAPED="a-\303\244_o-\303\266_u-\303\274.txt"
+ISO8859_ESCAPED="a-\344_o-\366_u-\374.txt"
+
+test_expect_success 'start p4d' '
+	start_p4d
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'Create a repo containing iso8859-1 encoded paths' '
+	(
+		cd "$cli" &&
+		ISO8859="$(printf "$ISO8859_ESCAPED")" &&
+		echo content123 >"$ISO8859" &&
+		p4 add "$ISO8859" &&
+		p4 submit -d "test commit"
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'Clone repo containing iso8859-1 encoded paths without git-p4.pathEncoding' '
+	git p4 clone --destination="$git" //depot &&
+	test_when_finished cleanup_git &&
+	(
+		cd "$git" &&
+		UTF8="$(printf "$UTF8_ESCAPED")" &&
+		echo $UTF8 >expect &&
+		git -c core.quotepath=false ls-files >actual &&
+		test_must_fail test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'Clone repo containing iso8859-1 encoded paths with git-p4.pathEncoding' '
+
+	test_when_finished cleanup_git &&
+	(
+		cd "$git" &&
+		git init . &&
+		git config git-p4.pathEncoding iso8859-1 &&
+		git p4 clone --use-client-spec --destination="$git" //depot &&
+		UTF8="$(printf "$UTF8_ESCAPED")" &&
+		echo $UTF8 >expect &&
+		git -c core.quotepath=false ls-files >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual &&
+		cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+		content123
+		EOF
+		cat $UTF8 >actual &&
+		test_cmp expect actual
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'kill p4d' '
+	kill_p4d
+'
+
+test_done
-- 
1.9.5 (Apple Git-50.3)

```

## Luke Diamand, 2015-09-02 21:32

Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] git-p4: add config git-p4.pathEncoding
Message-ID: <CAE5ih7_Kje_Qrz7zKH4uSGziVpdp6VqsZf7hSMwQkvta97CG9w@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAE5ih7_Kje_Qrz7zKH4uSGziVpdp6VqsZf7hSMwQkvta97CG9w%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <1441226355-61103-2-git-send-email-larsxschneider@gmail.com>

```
On 2 September 2015 at 21:39,  <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
>
> Perforce keeps the encoding of a path as given by the originating OS.
> Git expects paths encoded as UTF-8. Add a config to tell git-p4 what
> encoding Perforce had used for the paths. This encoding is used to
> transcode the paths to UTF-8. As an example, Perforce on Windows often
> uses “cp1252” to encode path names.

Looks good to me, and the test passes.

Note that git diff --check complains about a trailing whitespace.

```

## Remi Galan Alfonso, 2015-09-03 08:26

Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] git-p4: add config git-p4.pathEncoding
Message-ID: <983771583.1014619.1441268816360.JavaMail.zimbra@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/983771583.1014619.1441268816360.JavaMail.zimbra%40ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr
In-Reply-To: <1441226355-61103-2-git-send-email-larsxschneider@gmail.com>

```
Hi Lars,

Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:

> +test_expect_success 'Clone repo containing iso8859-1 encoded paths with git-p4.pathEncoding' '
> +
> +        test_when_finished cleanup_git &&
> +        (
> +                cd "$git" &&
> +                git init . &&
> +                git config git-p4.pathEncoding iso8859-1 &&

Wouldn't 'test_config' be better here?

Thanks,
Rémi

```

## Lars Schneider, 2015-09-03 15:20

Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] git-p4: add config git-p4.pathEncoding
Message-ID: <5E77893F-8E13-4696-B7A6-46E10FE41989@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/5E77893F-8E13-4696-B7A6-46E10FE41989%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <983771583.1014619.1441268816360.JavaMail.zimbra@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>

```

On 03 Sep 2015, at 10:26, Remi Galan Alfonso <remi.galan-alfonso@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

> Hi Lars,
> 
> Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> +test_expect_success 'Clone repo containing iso8859-1 encoded paths with git-p4.pathEncoding' '
>> +
>> +        test_when_finished cleanup_git &&
>> +        (
>> +                cd "$git" &&
>> +                git init . &&
>> +                git config git-p4.pathEncoding iso8859-1 &&
> 
> Wouldn't 'test_config' be better here?
> 
If I got Eric’s explanation right in "[PATCH v1] t9821: use test_config” then we should not use “test_config” here?

Thanks,
Lars
```

## Remi Galan Alfonso, 2015-09-04 08:30

Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] git-p4: add config git-p4.pathEncoding
Message-ID: <1646294553.1067005.1441355413320.JavaMail.zimbra@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1646294553.1067005.1441355413320.JavaMail.zimbra%40ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr
In-Reply-To: <5E77893F-8E13-4696-B7A6-46E10FE41989@gmail.com>

```
Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:

> > Hi Lars,
> >
> > Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> +test_expect_success 'Clone repo containing iso8859-1 encoded paths with git-p4.pathEncoding' '
> >> +
> >> +        test_when_finished cleanup_git &&
> >> +        (
> >> +                cd "$git" &&
> >> +                git init . &&
> >> +                git config git-p4.pathEncoding iso8859-1 &&
> >
> > Wouldn't 'test_config' be better here?
> >
> If I got Eric’s explanation right in "[PATCH v1] t9821: use
> test_config” then we should not use “test_config” here?

After reading Eric's point of view, I agree with him about this.

So, sorry for the noise, now I'll know better in the future when
to use and not use 'test_config'.

Thanks,
Rémi

```
