From: FusionX86 Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 20:23:20 GMT Subject: Re: git p4 clone - HEAD + partial history Message-ID: 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 wrote: > 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 >> >