On Wednesday 19 September 2007 01:37:49 David Brown wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:30:28PM -0700, David Brown wrote: > > I'd like to track a lot of code living in a Perforce repository, so I've > > been playing with 'git-p4.py'. Is the one in the contrib/fast-import > > directory the latest version, or is there a better place. > > > > So far, it is having a couple of problems: > > > > - The commit comment is empty. It doesn't seem to grab the Perforce > > description, and the user seems to be . > > > > - Every revision seems to check every file out of Perforce. This means > > that for the directory I want, every revision is going to take about > > 20 minutes. > > An additional problem: > > - git-p4 doesn't preserve the execute permission bit from Perforce. Hmm, can you paste the output of p4 fstat //path/in/depot/to/file/that/is/imported/incorrectly ? I'm interested in the type of the file that p4 reports. FWIW it works for me ;-) Thanks, Simon