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From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
To: Aaron Miller <aaronkmiller@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-p4: Clone p4 path with bidirectional integrations
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:23:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE5ih78UOor3XT_hDofanoGUPLD1BC2y=pCbzF-Edm2mpRvjyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALSvhyb7Td-ugzze9cSLXRjF78w=zE5=3yuMFZVeuXsCWLSjHg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 18:30, Aaron Miller <aaronkmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to `git p4 clone --detect-branches` from a Perforce
> path which contains bidirectional integrations?
>
> I've tried a bunch of things to get this to work, but here's an
> example which hopefully illustrates what I'm trying to accomplish
> and the issue I'm having.

I have to admit I don't use the detect-branches code myself.

It's possible that running with "-v" might give a bit more information.

Can you write a test case, or even just a shell script, that might
help figure out what's going on.

Unfortunately Perforce doesn't really know about branches, so git-p4
has to make a guess!

>
> Perforce setup, assuming PWD is mapped to //depot/... in your client spec:
>
>   1. mkdir -p testing/master
>   2. touch testing/master/test1 && p4 add testing/master/test1 && p4 submit
>   3. p4 integrate //depot/testing/master/...
> //depot/testing/staging/... && p4 submit
>   3. touch testing/staging/test2 && p4 add testing/staging/test2 && p4 submit
>   4. p4 integrate //depot/testing/staging/...
> //depot/testing/master/... && p4 submit
>
> Now try to clone with git-p4:
>
>   1. git init p4_git_test && cd p4_git_test
>   2. git config git-p4.branchList master:staging
>   3. git config --add git-p4.branchList staging:master
>   4. git p4 clone //depot/testing/...@all --detect-branches .
>
> You end up with a failure like:
>
>   Importing from //depot/testing/...@all into .
>   Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/amiller/p4_git_test/.git/
>   Importing revision 1205832 (25%)
>       Importing new branch testing/master
>
>       Resuming with change 1205832
>   fatal: ambiguous argument 'refs/remotes/p4/testing/staging': unknown
> revision or path not in the working tree.
>   Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
>   'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
>   Command failed: ['git', 'rev-list', '--reverse', '--no-merges',
> 'refs/remotes/p4/testing/staging']
>
> I'm using Git 2.22.1.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-19 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-19 17:29 git-p4: Clone p4 path with bidirectional integrations Aaron Miller
2019-08-19 20:23 ` Luke Diamand [this message]
2019-08-20 22:52   ` Aaron Miller
2019-08-20  2:14 ` Andrey
2019-08-20 23:45   ` Aaron Miller
2019-08-23  3:06     ` Andrey

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