Re: BUG: git-p4: can't add files with special chars

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luke@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:48 +0000:
> I just noticed this today. You can't add a file from git to perforce
> that contains a p4 special character (@,#,% or *).
> 
> There is code to cope going the other way round (p4 file with
> special character in it) but if you create a file in git and then
> try to git-p4 submit, it fails.
> 
> I've just tried a quick and simple fix, and it turns out that it's
> not that easy as the special characters get expanded to %40, %2A and
> so-on. The % seems to get further expanded by python...

Entertaining.  Probably p4_add() and friends should stop using
system.  And add option "-f" when wildcards are detected.  I
wouldn't be surprised if this turned into a larger set of issues.

		-- Pete
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