From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> A P4 repository can get into a state where it contains a file with type UTF-16 that does not contain a valid UTF-16 BOM. If git-p4 attempts to retrieve the file then the process crashes with a "Translation of file content failed" error. More info here: http://answers.perforce.com/articles/KB/3117 Fix this by detecting this error and retrieving the file as binary instead. The result in Git is the same. Known issue: This works only if git-p4 is executed in verbose mode. In normal mode no exceptions are thrown and git-p4 just exits. Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-p4.py | 27 ++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py index 073f87b..5ae25a6 100755 --- a/git-p4.py +++ b/git-p4.py @@ -134,13 +134,11 @@ def read_pipe(c, ignore_error=False): sys.stderr.write('Reading pipe: %s\n' % str(c)) expand = isinstance(c,basestring) - p = subprocess.Popen(c, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=expand) - pipe = p.stdout - val = pipe.read() - if p.wait() and not ignore_error: - die('Command failed: %s' % str(c)) - - return val + p = subprocess.Popen(c, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, shell=expand) + (out, err) = p.communicate() + if p.returncode != 0 and not ignore_error: + die('Command failed: %s\nError: %s' % (str(c), err)) + return out def p4_read_pipe(c, ignore_error=False): real_cmd = p4_build_cmd(c) @@ -2186,10 +2184,17 @@ class P4Sync(Command, P4UserMap): # them back too. This is not needed to the cygwin windows version, # just the native "NT" type. # - text = p4_read_pipe(['print', '-q', '-o', '-', "%s@%s" % (file['depotFile'], file['change']) ]) - if p4_version_string().find("/NT") >= 0: - text = text.replace("\r\n", "\n") - contents = [ text ] + try: + text = p4_read_pipe(['print', '-q', '-o', '-', '%s@%s' % (file['depotFile'], file['change'])]) + except Exception as e: + if 'Translation of file content failed' in str(e): + type_base = 'binary' + else: + raise e + else: + if p4_version_string().find('/NT') >= 0: + text = text.replace('\r\n', '\n') + contents = [ text ] if type_base == "apple": # Apple filetype files will be streamed as a concatenation of -- 2.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html