From: Andrew Oakley <andrew@adoakley.name>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:54:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-p4: recover from inconsistent perforce history
Message-ID: <20190211085405.51d752b7@ado-amd-gentoo.home.adoakley.name>
In-Reply-To: <20190208091033.12617-1-andrew@adoakley.name>

On Fri,  8 Feb 2019 09:10:33 +0000
andrew@adoakley.name wrote:

> From: Andrew Oakley <andrew@adoakley.name>
> 
> Perforce allows you commit files and directories with the same name,
> so you could have files //depot/foo and //depot/foo/bar both checked
> in.  A p4 sync of a repository in this state fails.  Deleting one of
> the files recovers the repository.
> 
> When this happens we want git-p4 to recover in the same way as
> perforce.

Unfortunately this still has a few issues:
- newer p4d versions don't allow this by default so the tests fail
- deleted files get recreated in some cases
- command line too long when there are lots of deletions

These are all easily fixable, but I'll test more on a real repository
with before sharing another patch.

-- 
Andrew Oakley