Asking again... [Re: how to properly import perforce history?]

From: Kevin Green <kevin.t.green@morganstanley.com>
Date: Jun 11, 2007, 14:25 UTC
Message-ID: <20070611142525.GN25093@menevado.ms.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070608202236.GJ25093@menevado.ms.com>

Reading this again, the subject was probably misleading...  Sorry for that.

In the meantime I've been scouring the archives looking for the proper way to import p4 history into a project.

I'm attempting to use git-p4import.py as that's what came with my version of git. I ran into the problems below.

How can I properly migrate a project from perforce to git?

Thanks

--Kevin

On 06/08/07 16:22:36, Kevin Green wrote:

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> 
> 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