Re: Git p4 sync changelist interval

[Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>]

On 5 June 2017 at 19:50, Андрей Ефанов <1134togo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-06-04 14:09 GMT+03:00 Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>:
>>
>> On 4 June 2017 at 10:56, Андрей Ефанов <1134togo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > My goal is to sync the repository from p4 using an interval of
>> > changelists so that the first changelist version of the repository
>> > would be considered as an initial commit.
>> > So I used the following command:
>> >
>> >  git p4 clone //depot@cl1,cl2
>> >
>> > And when it finished, the files, that were created before the cl1 were
>> > not in the HEAD.
>>
>> Do you mean that if foo.c was created at cl1+1, that after doing the
>> clone, it wasn't there?
>>
>> If so, that doesn't sound right to me.
>>
>> I have just tried doing what I think you mean:
>>
>> 1. Create p4 depot
>> 2. Add foo.c (at CL 2)
>> 3. Add bar.c (at CL 3)
>> 4. git-p4 clone //depot@2,3
>>
>> I end up with both files.
>>
>> >
>> > The problem, as I see it, is that before syncing changes in the given
>> > range, p4 task does not sync to cl1 version of the repo, and applies
>> > commits to the empty repository.
>> > Is it a bug or my misunderstanding of how git p4 should work?
>>
>> Possibly I'm misunderstanding what you're doing! Can you give a
>> sequence of steps to show the problem?
>
> What I meant is:
>
> 1. Create p4 depot
> 2. Add first.file (CL 2)
> 3. Add second.file (at CL 3)
> 4. Add third.file (at CL 4)
> 5. Modify first.file (at CL 5)
> 4. git-p4 clone //depot@3,5
>
> In this case first.file, will not be represented in the repository.

Hmmm, it's not working right for me. Although in my case I seem to be
missing the second file.

It's fine if I don't use the revision range "3,5".

Luke