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From: Ian Wienand <ianw@vmware.com>
To: Endre Czirbesz <endre@czirbesz.hu>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git to p4 conversion
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:23:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4AF29E.7070509@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=0TSD6p7WtsVzx=pq8=GVu+jHUdxt1bnC++CT+@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/02/11 05:52, Endre Czirbesz wrote:
> I have some small (and flat) git repos, which I would like to migrate
> into a perforce depot keeping their histories. I tried git-p4 without
> any success, and I did not find a good manual for it.

What exactly did you try?

Theoretically, you could clone your new, empty, company-mandated p4
tree into a fresh git repo, get your existing code onto a new branch
in this fresh repo (it's already in git, right, so that should be
easy), then use 'git-p4 submit' to submit that branch back to p4.

> Is there any step-by-step tutorial out there? Is there any living human
> who ever made a successful conversion in this direction?

I'm not aware of an existing tutorial for this, sorry

-i

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-03 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-03 13:52 git to p4 conversion Endre Czirbesz
2011-02-03 18:23 ` Ian Wienand [this message]
2011-02-03 19:50   ` Endre Czirbesz
2011-02-04  0:03     ` Vitor Antunes
2011-02-04  9:25       ` Tor Arvid Lund
2011-02-04 10:49         ` Endre Czirbesz
2011-02-04 14:01           ` Tor Arvid Lund
2011-02-04 16:08             ` Endre Czirbesz
     [not found]               ` <AANLkTimGaPQ=hRp+2pvw-hAOg+wp50nvc_sv9jNTay=n@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-04 16:52                 ` Endre Czirbesz
2011-02-05  0:53                   ` Tor Arvid Lund
2011-02-05  1:11                     ` Vitor Antunes
2011-02-07 13:57                       ` Endre Czirbesz
2011-02-07 14:13                         ` Tor Arvid Lund
2011-02-07 15:07                           ` Endre Czirbesz

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