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P4DTI issue job000442

Title: Can't replicate 'line' fields with hashes in them to Perforce
Status: closed
Priority: essential
Assigned user: gdr
Product: p4dti
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
Introduced in: 0.0.0
Test procedure: <http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/master/test/test_p4dti.py>, section 10
Created by: gdr
Created on: 2001-12-19 16:30:53
Last modified by: gdr
Last modified on: 2002-01-15 13:36:14
History: 2001-12-19 GDR Created.

Fixes

Change Effect Date User Description
25869 closed 2002-01-15 15:47:20 gdr Use 'text' field type for all text fields in Perforce.

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