From 98bae92fda9ca01d01b2e9fb70b04b00470e7bec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Keene <seraphire@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:08:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added general variable git-p4.binary and added a default for
 windows of 'P4.EXE'

Signed-off-by: Ben Keene <seraphire@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-p4.txt |  5 +++++
 git-p4.py                | 14 +++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
index 3494a1db3ebf49..e206e692505f26 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
@@ -547,6 +547,11 @@ git-p4.retries::
 	Set the value to 0 to disable retries or if your p4 version
 	does not support retries (pre 2012.2).
 
+git-p4.binary::
+	Specifies the p4 executable used by git-p4 to process commands.
+	The default value for Windows is `p4.exe` and for all other
+	systems the default is `p4`. 
+
 Clone and sync variables
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 git-p4.syncFromOrigin::
diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index 6e8b3a26cd297c..160d966ee1717c 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
 import zlib
 import ctypes
 import errno
+import os.path
+from os import path
 
 # support basestring in python3
 try:
@@ -85,7 +87,17 @@ def p4_build_cmd(cmd):
     location. It means that hooking into the environment, or other configuration
     can be done more easily.
     """
-    real_cmd = ["p4"]
+    # Look for the P4 binary
+    p4bin = gitConfig("git-p4.binary")
+    real_cmd = []
+    if p4bin != "":
+        if path.exists(p4bin):
+            real_cmd = [p4bin]
+    if real_cmd == []:
+        if (platform.system() == "Windows"):
+            real_cmd = ["p4.exe"]    
+        else:
+            real_cmd = ["p4"]
 
     user = gitConfig("git-p4.user")
     if len(user) > 0: