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Re: git p4 diff-tree ambiguous argument error

From
Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date
Jul 10, 2014, 18:07 UTC
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<53BED67D.8080006@diamand.org>
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Is this using NFS, or local storage?
On 10/07/14 18:30, Bill Door wrote:
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> $ git p4 sync --detect-branches --import-labels //main@all
> ... Lots of useful information elided
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'git-p4-tmp/8031': unknown revision or path not in
> the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
> 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
> Command failed: ['git', 'diff-tree',
> '6b3ef26a3e2635a5ff0170e15fdadb386672f8b9', 'git-p4-tmp/8031']
>
> If I re-run the command, it works the second time. Of course there are
> 73000+ commits. This is gonna take a while.
>
> I've done some debugging. It appears there is a timing problem between
> git-p4 and git.
>
> The failure occurs in P4Sync.searchParent(). Even though a checkpoint is
> sent to git (for fast-import) just prior to the call to searchParent() in
> importChanges(), the file does not yet exist. I used pdb, paused the program
> just before the call to diff-tree and the file was missing. After the
> program exits due to the error the file exists (i.e. the OS flushed the
> file). This is why re-running continues to work, there is an "old" file with
> basically the same information laying around (dangerous).
>
> How can I get git (fast-import) to flush the file at the right time?
>
> $ git --version
> git version 1.7.12.4
> $ python --version
> Python 2.6.6
> OS: GNU/Linux 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64
>
>
>
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  1. Bill DoorJul 10, 2014
  2. Luke DiamandJul 10, 2014
  3. Duane MurphyJul 10, 2014
  4. Duane MurphyJul 10, 2014
  5. Pete WyckoffJul 12, 2014
  6. Duane MurphyJul 12, 2014
  7. Bill DoorJul 11, 2014

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