Re: git p4 clone - HEAD + partial history

From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date: May 12, 2015, 19:55 UTC
Message-ID: <55525A99.9070702@diamand.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAFcBi8_sARUkD2iDeto2CXr1vOm473aOSbj9dCiERTj51ot59A@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/05/15 20:31, FusionX86 wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> I'm migrating my company from Perforce to Git. There is history in
> Perforce that goes back to 2006 and I'd like to migrate it with some,
> but not all of the history. I'm not having luck so far.
>
>  From what I see, a simple git p4 clone grabs HEAD only. Using @all
> grabs all history and is way too much to migrate. I have tried using
> //depot/folder@2015/01/01,@all when cloning, but it doesn't grab the
> current stuff in HEAD.
>
> Is it possible to grab what is currently in HEAD and the last few
> months of history only?

What I've done in the past is just find a commit that's about the right date, and clone from there.

i.e.

$ git p4 clone //depot/folder/...@12345 $ git p4 sync

The usual problem I have after that is that P4 repos can get very large, and the process can quite time consuming....

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