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diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index e21fcd8..de5ee67 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -636,7 +636,42 @@ git-p4.pathEncoding:: Git expects paths encoded as UTF-8. Use this config to tell git-p4 what encoding Perforce had used for the paths. This encoding is used to transcode the paths to UTF-8. As an example, Perforce on Windows - often uses "cp1252" to encode path names. + often uses "cp1252" to encode path names. If this option is passed + into a p4 clone request, it is persisted in the resulting new git + repo. + +git-p4.metadataDecodingStrategy:: + Perforce keeps the encoding of a changelist descriptions and user + full names as stored by the client on a given OS. The p4v client + uses the OS-local encoding, and so different users can end up storing + different changelist descriptions or user full names in different + encodings, in the same depot. + Git tolerates inconsistent/incorrect encodings in commit messages + and author names, but expects them to be specified in utf-8. + git-p4 can use three different decoding strategies in handling the + encoding uncertainty in Perforce: 'passthrough' simply passes the + original bytes through from Perforce to git, creating usable but + incorrectly-encoded data when the Perforce data is encoded as + anything other than utf-8. 'strict' expects the Perforce data to be + encoded as utf-8, and fails to import when this is not true. + 'fallback' attempts to interpret the data as utf-8, and otherwise + falls back to using a secondary encoding - by default the common + windows encoding 'cp-1252' - with upper-range bytes escaped if + decoding with the fallback encoding also fails. + Under python2 the default strategy is 'passthrough' for historical + reasons, and under python3 the default is 'fallback'. + When 'strict' is selected and decoding fails, the error message will + propose changing this config parameter as a workaround. If this + option is passed into a p4 clone request, it is persisted into the + resulting new git repo. + +git-p4.metadataFallbackEncoding:: + Specify the fallback encoding to use when decoding Perforce author + names and changelists descriptions using the 'fallback' strategy + (see git-p4.metadataDecodingStrategy). The fallback encoding will + only be used when decoding as utf-8 fails. This option defaults to + cp1252, a common windows encoding. If this option is passed into a + p4 clone request, it is persisted into the resulting new git repo. git-p4.largeFileSystem:: Specify the system that is used for large (binary) files. Please note |