If a symlink in your Perforce repository matches git-p4.largeFileExtensions, git-p4.py will attempt to put the symlink in LFS but will blow up when it passes a string to generateTempFile. Git LFS normal behavior does not stash symlinks in LFS. Importing revision 42889 (100%)Traceback (most recent call last): File "./git/git-p4.py", line 4621, in <module> main() File "./git/git-p4.py", line 4615, in main if not cmd.run(args): File "./git/git-p4.py", line 4225, in run self.importRevisions(args, branch_arg_given) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 4002, in importRevisions self.importChanges(changes) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 3876, in importChanges self.initialParent) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 3496, in commit self.streamP4Files(files) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 3336, in streamP4Files cb=streamP4FilesCbSelf) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 910, in p4CmdList cb(entry) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 3321, in streamP4FilesCbSelf self.streamP4FilesCb(entry) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 3266, in streamP4FilesCb self.streamOneP4File(self.stream_file, self.stream_contents) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 3217, in streamOneP4File git_mode, contents = self.largeFileSystem.processContent(git_mode, relPath, contents) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 1656, in processContent return LargeFileSystem.processContent(self, git_mode, relPath, contents) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 1526, in processContent contentTempFile = self.generateTempFile(contents) File "./git/git-p4.py", line 1488, in generateTempFile contentFile.write(d) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/tempfile.py", line 485, in func_wrapper return func(*args, **kwargs) TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' Signed-off-by: Matthew McClain <mmcclain@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- git-p4.py | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py index d26a980e5a..f5fda2a3dc 100755 --- a/git-p4.py +++ b/git-p4.py @@ -1522,6 +1522,10 @@ def processContent(self, git_mode, relPath, contents): file is stored in the large file system and handles all necessary steps. """ + # no need to store symlinks in LFS (generateTempFile wants bytes) + if git_mode == "120000": + return (git_mode, contents) + if self.exceedsLargeFileThreshold(relPath, contents) or self.hasLargeFileExtension(relPath): contentTempFile = self.generateTempFile(contents) pointer_git_mode, contents, localLargeFile = self.generatePointer(contentTempFile) -- 2.39.3