From: Scott Lamb Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:53:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Move git-p4import into contrib directory. Message-ID: <469A9771.1000805@slamb.org> In-Reply-To: <20070715154804.2877361d.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> Sean wrote: > Hi Junio, > > Having caught up on some list emails, it appears that Git now has a > much better option for importing from Perforce in the git-p4 front > end to fast-import. > > Is there anyone out there actually even using git-p4import? It was > written for a very specific case, by a git wannabe hacker who had > never used Perforce before, and not intended for inclusion in Git > proper... > > My guess is that it could be removed outright without pain to anyone, > but as a first step, it could be moved into contrib for 1.5.3. I vote for removing it immediately. It has serious bugs - e.g., incremental mode is totally broken. I sent in a patch a month ago to fix this particular bug, which remains unapplied. Now that git-p4 has made it into git.git, I don't think anyone - myself included - is interested in creating or merging git-p4import.py fixes. Keeping git-p4import.py in this broken state just wastes the time of anyone unlucky enough to see it first. Best regards, Scott -- Scott Lamb