git-p4 question

Hi All,

Me again with more dumb git-perforce questions.

I have been toying with git-p4 and I think it does everything I want except the crazy client map support. I figure I don't really need this. My client is something like this:

//depot/sane/... //clientroot/crazy/... //depot/stuff/... //clientroot/dumb/... //depot/otherstuff/... //clientroot/dumb/... //depot/my/product/... //clientroot/src/realworkhere/...

My "working directory" looks something like this:

c:\path\crazy\xyz_from_perforce c:\path\crazy\abc_from_huge_binary_fileshare_notinp4 c:\path\dumb\... c:\path\src\realworkhere\...

If I can just sync from p4 and then sync my binary share and THEN tell git-p4 that //depot/my/product/... maps to c:\path\src\realworkhere, get it to import history etc, then I would be set.

Is this at all possible to do with git-p4?

If not, what sort of work would be necessary to add that (considering that I am a git noob).

Thanks for the help.

-Govind

On 8/10/07, Govind Salinas <govindsalinas@gmail.com> wrote:

git-p4-import.bat can import a state from the client have-list, but it does not import the history. It can import the history separately, so that you can stitch it into a merge which will be the state imported from the client. Complicated, but I couldn't bring myself to figure out the history automatically.

The script attached (sorry for .gz, gmail wont let me send a .bat).

On 8/10/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

Err, example:

Import a state from p4 client:

  git-p4-import -y -c client-name -e

Import p4 history of a path mapping:

  git-p4-import --p4-path //perforce/path \
    --local-path very-local-path \
    --p4-range '@1234,5678' \
    --start start-commit \
    --branch branch-name

The last argument (--branch) is optional, will just store the last imported commit there. start-commit will be assumed current HEAD, if omitted.

I am having some problems running the script.  It seems that (line
1425) $f->{sha1} is uninitialized and causing the import to fail (the
perforce path is missing the leading "//" I don't know if that is
intentional).  Let me know if you want to continue this off list since
it isn't really a part of git.

On 8/10/07, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/10/07, Govind Salinas <govindsalinas@gmail.com> wrote:

the line in question deals with local pathnames, so it is expected. What i don't understand is how did you manage to have the file without sha1... Could you put a

 print "$tmpfile\n";

after line 1400?
 open($ft,'>',$tmpfile) or die "$tmpfile: $!\n";

and run git-p4-import -v -v -v? Than it possible to compare lists of the files which is acquired through p4 change with the list of files output by p4 print.

What perforce client version do you have, BTW?

It isn't. We can continue privately