Re: P4 Sync problem

[Tor Arvid Lund <torarvid@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Dmitry Smirnov <divis1969@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to import Perfoce client into Git repository.
> I had configured git-p4.clent=MYCLIENT and git-p4.useclientspec=true.
>
> When runnign git p4 sync --verbose I got the follwing:
>
> c:\p4\views\Git\p4client>git p4 sync --verbose
<snip>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/sbin/git-core//git-p4", line 1929, in ?
>    main()
>  File "/usr/sbin/git-core//git-p4", line 1924, in main
>    if not cmd.run(args):
>  File "/usr/sbin/git-core//git-p4", line 1676, in run
>    changes = p4ChangesForPaths(self.depotPaths, self.changeRange)
>  File "/usr/sbin/git-core//git-p4", line 442, in p4ChangesForPaths
>    assert depotPaths
> AssertionError

Hi. So - I think the problem is that git-p4 doesn't understand what it
is you want to sync. The git-p4.useclientspec flag was created for the
purpose where your perforce depot may look like this:

//depot/project1
//depot/project1/source_code
//depot/project1/documentation
//depot/project1/some_large_collection_of_binaries

Then - if I set up my client spec like:

//depot/...
-//depot/project1/some_large_collection_of_binaries

... and do

git p4 sync //depot/project1@all

... it should get all project1 files except the
"some_large_collection_of_binaries" subdirectory (provided that you
have set the git-p4.client and git-p4.useclientspec).

-Tor Arvid-