| Title | Can't replicate 'line' fields with hashes in them to Perforce |
| Status | closed |
| Priority | essential |
| Assigned user | Gareth Rees |
| Organization | Ravenbrook |
| Description | If you have a field with a # in it in the defect tracker, and if that field is replicated to a 'line' field in Perforce, the contents don't get replicated correctly to Perforce because the # is interpreted as the start of a comment. |
| Analysis | See the original customer report [1] and my response [2]. The solution is to not use 'line' fields in Perforce for anything that might contain free-form text. |
| How found | customer |
| Evidence | [1] <http://info.ravenbrook.com/mail/2001/12/19/02-54-20/0.txt>[2] < http://info.ravenbrook.com/mail/2001/12/19/16-26-34/0.txt> |
| Observed in | 1.2.1 |
| Test procedure | <http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/master/test/test_p4dti.py>, section 10 |
| Created by | Gareth Rees |
| Created on | 2001-12-19 16:30:53 |
| Last modified by | Gareth Rees |
| Last modified on | 2002-01-15 13:36:14 |
| History | 2001-12-19 GDR Created. |
| Change | Effect | Date | User | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25869 | closed | 2002-01-15 15:47:20 | Gareth Rees | Use 'text' field type for all text fields in Perforce. |