Re: git-p4 submit, Can't clobber writable file

From: Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
Date: Dec 2, 2008, 23:51 UTC
Message-ID: <3f4fd2640812021551t5451e6e3i91e6d2694c89e085@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <40586.80065.qm@web37902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

2008/12/2 Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>:

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> I followed the instructions at http://modular.math.washington.edu/home/mhansen/git-1.5.5.1/contrib/fast-import/git-p4.txt
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> But, I am not able to git-p4 submit. Any idea?
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> 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...

This will be running a `p4 sync ...` command to ensure that the files are up-to-date.

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> //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 ...

Perforce will mark files as readonly when it does a checkout. When you use `p4 edit` to say you have made changes to the file, Perforce removes the readonly bit.

What is happening here is that the sync (checkout) command is trying to write foo.h/c to your build_scripts directory, but because they already exist there *and* are not readonly, Perforce is producing that error as it does not want to overwrite any files that have changed locally.

Not sure what is happening on the git-p4 side, though.

- Reece