Re: git p4 clone - HEAD + partial history

From: FusionX86 <fusionx86@gmail.com>
Date: May 12, 2015, 20:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFcBi89+FuvB=VF3nCDy7_xrwz=Of_omkCn35MdXBwhy6VckjQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <55525A99.9070702@diamand.org>

Thanks Luke! I'll give that a shot.

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> wrote:

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> 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....
>
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