Re: State of Perforce importing.

From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Sep 18, 2007, 07:27 UTC
Message-ID: <46EF7DD1.9090301@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070917193027.GA24282@old.davidb.org>

David Brown wrote:

> I'd like to track a lot of code living in a Perforce repository, so I've
> been playing with 'git-p4.py'.  Is the one in the contrib/fast-import
> directory the latest version, or is there a better place.

I'm pretty close to giving a newer one a spin, that actually imports from the raw perforce back-end files without needing the perforce server. I am hoping that this should give a very clean import and will be very fast and efficient, sending files that share ancestry to gfi in sequence so that the on-the-fly delta system works.

If you're interested, take a look at http://utsl.gen.nz/gitweb/?p=git-p4raw;a=summary. Expect the commands that say "WIP" to be rebased :-). It requires Postgres - I haven't yet re-written the SQL queries that step outside of MySQL's little box.

It could possibly be adapted to use the p4 client (though I'd expect that to be relatively slow per-revision), and possibly be extended to be bidirectional as all of the upstream change number information is recorded, a la git-svn.

Sam.