how to properly import perforce history...

Very new to git. Was hoping this would be much more straightforward and I'm assuming I'm just missing something fundamentally easy.

I'm using git-p4import.py which came with my release of git.

I have a small project I'd like to move from perforce to git ( 111 files, 165 revisions ).

I've used a number of different approaches to do this, all of them resulting in my files being deleted.

1) $ git init $ git-p4import //depot/path master

bombs out with missing .git/index

2) $ p4 sync ... $ git init $ git add . $ git commit $ git-p4import --stitch //depot/path

This imports all the comment history, but deletes all of my files!!

3) $ p4 sync ... $ git init $ git add . $ git commit $ git-p4import //depot/path new ### new branch with no files, but all my files in master $ git checkout master $ git merge new ### Now I see it deleting all of my files, but it pulls in all of the history.

NOTE:  All of the commits pulled in have no file information associated with
them...

What am I missing?

Thanks

--Kevin