Re: git-p4: commits are visible in history after 'git p4 clone', but not a single file present

From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date: Jun 13, 2012, 18:00 UTC
Message-ID: <4FD8D527.6050703@diamand.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FD88DE0.4050606@nokia.com>

On 13/06/12 13:56, Ilya Dogolazky wrote:

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> Hi !
>
> 06/13/2012 09:58 AM, Ilya Dogolazky написал:
>> $ P4CLIENT=xexe1 git p4 submit
>> Error: Cannot locate perforce checkout of //xxx/yyy/ in client view
>
> After some playing around with git-p4 script and adding debugging
> printing I realized, that the solution is to do
>
> $ P4CLIENT=xexe1 git p4 clone //xxx/yyy/zzz@all ~/xexe1
> instead of just
> $ P4CLIENT=xexe1 git p4 clone //xxx/yyy@all ~/xexe1
>
> After that "git-p4 submit" started to work.
>
> I still don't understand p4 enough in order to know why it's happening,
> but now at least I can clone+change+rebase+submit files into the
> perforce repository with git-p4, which is great.
>
> Luke, Pete: thanks a lot for your help and patience!

So - what is a p4 stream? I found some blurb on the Perforce website but I was none the wiser after reading it.

Thanks! Luke