From: Ian Wienand <ianw@vmware.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:23:26 GMT
Subject: Re: git to p4 conversion
Message-ID: <4D4AF29E.7070509@vmware.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=0TSD6p7WtsVzx=pq8=GVu+jHUdxt1bnC++CT+@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/02/11 05:52, Endre Czirbesz wrote:
> I have some small (and flat) git repos, which I would like to migrate
> into a perforce depot keeping their histories. I tried git-p4 without
> any success, and I did not find a good manual for it.

What exactly did you try?

Theoretically, you could clone your new, empty, company-mandated p4
tree into a fresh git repo, get your existing code onto a new branch
in this fresh repo (it's already in git, right, so that should be
easy), then use 'git-p4 submit' to submit that branch back to p4.

> Is there any step-by-step tutorial out there? Is there any living human
> who ever made a successful conversion in this direction?

I'm not aware of an existing tutorial for this, sorry

-i