git-p4: add config to retry p4 commands; retry 3 times by default

P4 commands can fail due to random network issues. P4 users can counter
these issues by using a retry flag supported by all p4 commands [1].

Add an integer Git config value `git-p4.retries` to define the number of
retries for all p4 invocations. If the config is not defined then set
the default retry count to 3.

[1] https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/global.options.html

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index fd5ca52462..2422178210 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ def p4_build_cmd(cmd):
     if len(client) > 0:
         real_cmd += ["-c", client]
 
+    retries = gitConfigInt("git-p4.retries")
+    if retries is None:
+        # Perform 3 retries by default
+        retries = 3
+    real_cmd += ["-r", str(retries)]
 
     if isinstance(cmd,basestring):
         real_cmd = ' '.join(real_cmd) + ' ' + cmd