From: Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:07:29 GMT
Subject: Re: git-p4 submit, Can't clobber writable file
Message-ID: <20081203030729.GB5624@jabba.hq.digizenstudio.com>
In-Reply-To: <40586.80065.qm@web37902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:30:51PM -0800, Gary Yang wrote:
> 
> I followed the instructions at http://modular.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/git-1.5.5.1/contrib/fast-import/git-p4.txt
> 
> But, I am not able to git-p4 submit. Any idea?
> 
> git-p4 clone //build/scripts build_scripts
> cd build_scripts
> vi foo.h
> git commit foo.h
> git-p4 rebase
> git-p4 submit
> 
>   from sets import Set;
> Perforce checkout for depot path //build/scripts/ located at /home/gyang/workspace/build_scripts/
> Syncronizing p4 checkout...
> //build/scripts/foo.h#1 - added as /home/gyang/workspace/build_scripts/foo.h
> Can't clobber writable file /home/gyang/workspace/build_scripts/foo.h
> //build/scripts/foo.c#1 - added as /home/gyang/workspace/build_scripts/foo.c
> Can't clobber writable file /user/home/gyang/workspace/build_scripts/foo.c
> ......
> command failed: p4 sync ...

You might want to clone to a git working dir different than the p4
working dir.

For instance, if your p4 workspace has the working dir set to
build_scripts/, try 'git p4 clone //build/scripts build_scripts.git'.

You would then normally work under build_scripts.git/. build_scripts/
would only be used by git-p4 at submission time.

Cheers.
-- 
Jing Xue