From a37a8de8d61f5af3a2d347c6d6668f4316f48383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:52:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] git-p4: cope with labels with empty descriptions

Use an explicit length for the data in a label, rather
than EOT, so that labels with empty descriptions are
passed through correctly.

Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 contrib/fast-import/git-p4 | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
index e8c586e242..8aa84f2caf 100755
--- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
@@ -1741,9 +1741,11 @@ class P4Sync(Command, P4UserMap):
                     else:
                         tagger = "%s <a@b> %s %s" % (owner, epoch, self.tz)
                     self.gitStream.write("tagger %s\n" % tagger)
-                    self.gitStream.write("data <<EOT\n")
-                    self.gitStream.write(labelDetails["Description"])
-                    self.gitStream.write("EOT\n\n")
+
+                    description = labelDetails["Description"]
+                    self.gitStream.write("data %d\n" % len(description))
+                    self.gitStream.write(description)
+                    self.gitStream.write("\n")
 
                 else:
                     if not self.silent:
-- 
2.11.4.GIT