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Re: Is there an updated version of git-vcs-p4?

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 13, 2010, 18:53 UTC
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Heya,
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:04, Tor Arvid Lund <torarvid@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm having trouble getting exporting to work. Looking at the C code, I
> quickly realize that there's _much_ I don't know anything about, but
> it seems to me that vcs-p4.c needs to support the "refspec "
> capability. Am I on the right track?
>
> My reasoning so far: the version of vcs-p4.c that I have, contained a
> prefixcmp for "export ". This made "git push" barf with the current
> version of transport-helper.c, so I did something like this:

The export capability that is now in git is different from the one Daniel sketched initially. It's not really done for prime time anyway (see my email to Shawn about it not working). If you're interested in working on the git remote-helper infrastructure, let me know, and I can tell you more about how it works in #git-devel on freenode.net for example :).

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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