On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 at 22:48, Peter Osterlund <peterosterlund2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I use "git p4 sync" to update a git repository from a perforce depot,
> the operation fails with error message:
>
> failure accessing depot: unknown error code info
>
I guess, this got broken in
commit 0ef67acdd78 ("git-p4: better error reporting when p4 fails", 2018-06-08)
> When I run "p4 login -s" from a shell it reports:
>
> 'login' not necessary, no password set for this user.
In my case, I was getting (this is pretty printed `p4 -G` output):
{b'code': b'info', b'level': 0, b'data': b'User <username> was authenticated by password not ticket.'}
I guess, that's because I have P4PASSWD variable exported and/or git-p4.password set.
> The following patch fixes the problem for me:
>
> --- /usr/libexec/git-core/git-p4~ 2018-12-15 14:51:07.000000000 +0100
> +++ /usr/libexec/git-core/git-p4 2019-01-06 23:23:06.934176387 +0100
> @@ -332,6 +332,8 @@
> die_bad_access("p4 error: {0}".format(data))
> else:
> die_bad_access("unknown error")
> + elif code == "info":
> + return
> else:
> die_bad_access("unknown error code {0}".format(code))
This fixes the problem for me too.
>
> Not sure if this helps, but running "p4 -G login -s | hexdump" gives:
>
> 00000000 7b 73 04 00 00 00 63 6f 64 65 73 04 00 00 00 69 |{s....codes....i|
> 00000010 6e 66 6f 73 05 00 00 00 6c 65 76 65 6c 69 00 00 |nfos....leveli..|
> 00000020 00 00 73 04 00 00 00 64 61 74 61 73 35 00 00 00 |..s....datas5...|
> 00000030 27 6c 6f 67 69 6e 27 20 6e 6f 74 20 6e 65 63 65 |'login' not nece|
> 00000040 73 73 61 72 79 2c 20 6e 6f 20 70 61 73 73 77 6f |ssary, no passwo|
> 00000050 72 64 20 73 65 74 20 66 6f 72 20 74 68 69 73 20 |rd set for this |
> 00000060 75 73 65 72 2e 30 |user.0|
> 00000066
>
> Best regards,
