Re: [PATCH] git-p4: chdir now properly sets PWD environment variable in msysGit

On Sunday 03 August 2008 23:13:42 Junio C Hamano wrote:

"Robert Blum" [off-list ref] writes:

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P4 on Windows expects the PWD environment variable to be set to the
current working dir, but os.chdir in python doesn't do that by default

Missing full stop at the end of sentence aside, this comment makes me
wonder if there is an optional way to have it set it, as opposed to the
inconvenient way it behaves "by defualt".  If there is none, I think your
patch, even though it looks ugly, is the least evil approach.  Another way
might be to wrap callsites of system() by introducing a "run_p4" function,
like:

	def run_p4(arg):
        	os.environ['PWD'] = os.getcwd() if os.name == 'nt'
		return system(arg)

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Pushing it out to the list since I'm not entirely sure who the git-p4
owner even is. CC'ed likely suspects for ownership ;)

Thanks.  I've been waiting for an Ack from somewhere or success reports
from p4 users on Windows.

Acked-by: Simon Hausmann <redacted>

It may not be the prettiest solution, but I agree it needs to be solved :)

Simon