[PATCH] git p4: catch p4 describe errors

Group the two calls to p4 describe into a new helper function, and try to validate the p4 results. The current behavior when p4 describe fails is to die with a python backtrace. The new behavior will print the full response. Based-on-patch-by: Matt Arsenault arse...@gmail.com Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH] git p4: catch p4 describe errors

On Nov 3, 2012, at 16:07 , Pete Wyckoff p...@padd.com wrote: Arthur and Matt, you've both had intermittent p4 describe errors. I've not been able to repeat this or come up with a possible root cause. But it is clear that the error handling in this area is weak. I tried this week to find