From: Maxim Gordienko <mgordienko@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:48:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [GIT-P4] usage under Windows
Message-ID: <96c268400802291048u31a2d8b6ub1726ade941afb8c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47C5E4EC.1060003@trolltech.com>

Thank you, Marius for detailed instructions!
Now everything except submitting back to perforce works like a charm.
Perforce complains about git-p4 checkout is not under it's root

Synchronizing p4 checkout...
executing p4 sync ...
Path 'c:/tmp/p42/main\...' is not under client's root 'c:\p4'.

if I move checkout under perforce root git-p4 unable to create patch.
Have you encounter such errors?
Thank you!

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Marius Storm-Olsen
<marius@trolltech.com> wrote:
> Maxim Gordienko wrote:
> > What are best practices to use git-p4 under windows?
> > What p4 client should i use, native or cygwin one? Is any special
> > perforce client configuration required?
>  > What python distribution is preferred, included in cygwin or active
> python?
>
> Depends on what your system is. Are you using Git under Cygwin or MSys?
> If you're using Cygwin normally, it's probably wise to use the cygwin
> version of perforce too.
>
> Here's what I do:
>     1) Use MSys Git. It's faster. (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/)
>     2) Use native Perforce. It's faster.
>     3) Get Python from python.org. There's a binary installer.
>
> > Where i need to put imported directory under perforce client' root or
> > in any other place?
>
> In perforce create your client spec somewhere where you don't see it.
> You never need to touch these files, but they are needed to be able to
> submit back to the perforce depot, if you need that. For cloning a
> perforce depot, you don't need a checkout (git-p4 used 'p4 print' to get
> the files directly)
>
> Keep in mind to always rebase your patches before submitting back to a
> Perforce depot, since merges can be represented properly. So, a good
> work practice is to
>    1) Clone perforce branch
>    2) work, work, commit, work, commit...
>    3) git p4 rebase
>    4) git p4 submit
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> .marius
>
>