Re: git-p4

From: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>
Date: Sep 13, 2010, 16:28 UTC
Message-ID: <4C8E511F.8000400@borg.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimL3mB8LeUOANsJO7p9uwqDCN9wKnLVMTq_-=3H@mail.gmail.com>

Tor Arvid Lund wrote:

> git remote, shows remotes as defined in your .git/config file (the
> [remote "someremotename"] sections). git-p4 does not need nor create
> such entries.

I am confused trying to understand what kind of beast the p4/master is.

I think my fundamental problem is that I need p4/master to point at a branch with a real git history, not a sync from Perforce (which has no git history).

I tried pointing p4/master at a clean branch in my repository with "git update-ref refs/remotes/p4/master ...", but every time I tried a "git p4 sync --verbose" it sprang back to pointing at the old commit (the one without a full git history).

So I figured I have brokenness I might be able to leave behind if I tried making a new "git p4 clone", doing a "git remote add ..." to the branch I like in my old git repository, and trying it again...but I get the same result.

After my update-ref I grep in .git for the commit hash that keeps grabbing my p4/master...and that hash is only in logs/refs/remotes/p4/master. I do a "git p4 sync" and the hash reappears in refs/remotes/p4/master. Where is it coming from?

How do I change where p4/master points? (Put another way, how can I have a complete Linux history in git but only new work in Perforce?)

Thanks,

-kb, the Kent who is getting a lot smarter about git in the last few days, but for whom git-p4 is not yet in control.