From: Luke Diamand Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 19:55:05 GMT Subject: Re: git p4 clone - HEAD + partial history Message-ID: <55525A99.9070702@diamand.org> In-Reply-To: On 12/05/15 20:31, FusionX86 wrote: > 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.... > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >