Re: git-p4 clone @all error

From: Thomas Berg <merlin66b@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 31, 2012, 14:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CABYiQp=1HEW=53U2Rck5vckhq0PB3C9iuanoXeVvNG6Xv5+oHg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1351593879401-7570219.post@n2.nabble.com>

Hi,

Sorry, forgot to reply-to-all, here is my response again:

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Arthur <a.foulon@amesys.fr> wrote:

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> The problem :
>
> Importing revision 7727 (100%)Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/git-p4", line 3183, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/git-p4", line 3177, in main
>     if not cmd.run(args):
>   File "/usr/bin/git-p4", line 3048, in run
>     if not P4Sync.run(self, depotPaths):
>   File "/usr/bin/git-p4", line 2911, in run
>     self.importChanges(changes)
>   File "/usr/bin/git-p4", line 2618, in importChanges
>     self.initialParent)
>   File "/usr/bin/git-p4", line 2198, in commit
>     epoch = details["time"]
> KeyError: 'time'
>

Are you permanently converting a project, or are you planning to continue submitting to perforce with git-p4?

I have seen similar bugs myself when using the --detect-branches option. The branch detection in git-p4 is flaky anyway: it is limited what it can handle, and it used to require correct perforce branch specs at least, so I would recommend not using it unless you know what it is doing under the hood.

Instead I would just clone a single branch at a time (drop the --detect-branches) and work on that.

I do this even in the rare cases when I need more than one perforce branch in the same git repo - there are other ways to achieve the same thing.

- Thomas