[PATCH] git-p4: do not pass '-r 0' to p4 commands
From: Igor Kushnir <hidden>
Date: 2016-12-29 09:06:53
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
git-p4 crashes when used with a very old p4 client version that does not support the '-r <number>' option in its commands. Allow making git-p4 work with old p4 clients by setting git-p4.retries to 0. Alternatively git-p4.retries could be made opt-in. But since only very old, barely maintained p4 versions don't support the '-r' option, the setting-retries-to-0 workaround would do. The "-r retries" option is present in Perforce 2012.2 Command Reference, but absent from Perforce 2012.1 Command Reference. Signed-off-by: Igor Kushnir <redacted> --- Documentation/git-p4.txt | 1 + git-p4.py | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
index bae862ddc..f4f1be5be 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ git-p4.client:: git-p4.retries:: Specifies the number of times to retry a p4 command (notably, 'p4 sync') if the network times out. The default value is 3. + '-r 0' is not passed to p4 commands if this option is set to 0. Clone and sync variables ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index 22e3f57e7..e5a9e1cce 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ def p4_build_cmd(cmd): if retries is None: # Perform 3 retries by default retries = 3 - real_cmd += ["-r", str(retries)] + if retries != 0: + # Provide a way to not pass this option by setting git-p4.retries to 0 + real_cmd += ["-r", str(retries)] if isinstance(cmd,basestring): real_cmd = ' '.join(real_cmd) + ' ' + cmd
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