Use git format-patch and git apply --apply when extracting patches from git and

applying them to a Perforce checkout. This should make it possible to apply git
commits with binary files that cannot be handled by path.

Signed-off-by: Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>

diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
index 80d966fb305de9eccec58cb1dd1187e6751db382..0b1df09cb87ca8ce901218602d0ee0785b347053 100755 (executable)
--- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
@@ -213,10 +213,13 @@ class P4Submit(Command):
             else:
                 die("unknown modifier %s for %s" % (modifier, path))
 
             else:
                 die("unknown modifier %s for %s" % (modifier, path))
 

-        diffcmd = "git diff-tree -p --diff-filter=ACMRTUXB \"%s^\" \"%s\"" % (id, id)
-        patchcmd = diffcmd + " | patch -p1"
+        diffcmd = "git format-patch -k --stdout \"%s^\"..\"%s\"" % (id, id)
+        patchcmd = diffcmd + " | git apply "
+        tryPatchCmd = diffcmd + "--check -"
+        applyPatchCmd = diffcmd + "--check --apply -"
+        print mypopen(diffcmd).read()

 
 

-        if os.system(patchcmd + " --dry-run --silent") != 0:
+        if os.system(tryPatchCmd) != 0:

             print "Unfortunately applying the change failed!"
             print "What do you want to do?"
             response = "x"
             print "Unfortunately applying the change failed!"
             print "What do you want to do?"
             response = "x"


@@ -226,7 +229,7 @@ class P4Submit(Command):
                 print "Skipping! Good luck with the next patches..."
                 return
             elif response == "a":
                 print "Skipping! Good luck with the next patches..."
                 return
             elif response == "a":

-                os.system(patchcmd)
+                os.system(applyPatchCmd)

                 if len(filesToAdd) > 0:
                     print "You may also want to call p4 add on the following files:"
                     print " ".join(filesToAdd)
                 if len(filesToAdd) > 0:
                     print "You may also want to call p4 add on the following files:"
                     print " ".join(filesToAdd)


@@ -239,7 +242,7 @@ class P4Submit(Command):
                 print "Patch saved to patch.txt in %s !" % self.clientPath
                 die("Please resolve and submit the conflict manually and continue afterwards with git-p4 submit --continue")
 
                 print "Patch saved to patch.txt in %s !" % self.clientPath
                 die("Please resolve and submit the conflict manually and continue afterwards with git-p4 submit --continue")
 

-        system(patchcmd)
+        system(applyPatchCmd)

 
         for f in filesToAdd:
             system("p4 add %s" % f)
 
         for f in filesToAdd:
             system("p4 add %s" % f)