Perforce repositories can contain large (binary) files. Migrating these
repositories to Git generates very large local clones. External storage
systems such as Git LFS [1], Git Fat [2], Git Media [3], git-annex [4]
try to address this problem.
Add a generic mechanism to detect large files based on extension,
uncompressed size, and/or compressed size.
[1] https://git-lfs.github.com/
[2] https://github.com/jedbrown/git-fat
[3] https://github.com/alebedev/git-media
[4] https://git-annex.branchable.com/
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Conflicts:
Documentation/git-p4.txt
git-p4.py
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Simply running "p4 changes" on a large branch can result in a "too
many rows scanned" error from the Perforce server. It is better to
use a sequence of smaller calls to "p4 changes", using the "-m"
option to limit the size of each call.
Signed-off-by: Lex Spoon <lex@lexspoon.org>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The clone subcommand has long had support for excluding
subdirectories, but sync has not. This is a nuisance,
since as soon as you do a sync, any changed files that
were initially excluded start showing up.
Move the "exclude" command-line option into the parent
class; the actual behavior was already present there so
it simply had to be exposed.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Reviewed-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thomas Rast noticed the docs have a mix of styles when
it comes to options with multiple spellings. Standardize
the couple in git-p4.txt that are odd.
Instead of:
-n, --dry-run::
Do this:
-n::
--dry-run::
See
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/219936/focus=219945
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix a typo ("remote remote-tracking") going back to the big cleanup
in 2010 (8b3f3f84 etc). Also, remove some more occurrences of
"tracking" and "remote tracking" in favor of "remote-tracking".
Signed-off-by: Michael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update documentation to change "GIT" which was a poor-man's small
caps to "Git". The latter was the intended spelling.
Also change "git" spelled in all-lowercase to "Git" when it refers
to the system as the whole or the concept it embodies, as opposed to
the command the end users would type.
* ta/doc-no-small-caps:
Documentation: StGit is the right spelling, not StGIT
Documentation: describe the "repository" in repository-layout
Documentation: add a description for 'gitfile' to glossary
Documentation: do not use undefined terms git-dir and git-file
Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Documentation: avoid poor-man's small caps GIT
It finds its upstream and applies the commit properly, but
the sync step will fail unless it is told which branch to
work on.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is legal to sync a branch with a different name than
refs/remotes/p4/master, and to do so even when master does
not exist.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
For a clone or sync, --branch says where the newly imported
branch should go, or which existing branch to sync up. It
takes an argument, which is currently either something that
starts with "refs/", or if not, "refs/heads/p4" is prepended.
Putting it in heads seems like a bad default; these should
go in remotes/p4/ in most situations. Make that the new default,
and be more liberal in the form of the branch name.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make sure that the example on how to use git-p4.branchList
works if typed directly. In particular, it does not make sense
to set a config variable until the git repository has been
initialized.
Reported-by: Olivier Delalleau <shish@keba.be>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using the --branch argument to "git p4 clone", one
might specify a destination for p4 changes different from
the default refs/remotes/p4/master. Both cases should
create a master branch and checkout files.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows specifying what to do when a conflict
happens when applying a commit to p4, automating the
interactive prompt.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This option can be used to prepare the client workspace for
submission, only. It does not invoke the final "p4 submit".
A message describes how to proceed, either submitting the
changes or reverting.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A new option, "git p4 submit --dry-run" can be used to verify
what commits and labels would be moved into p4.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The short form "-v" is common in many git commands as an
alias for "--verbose".
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
P4Submit.applyCommit()
To avoid recalculating the same diffOpts for each commit, move it
out of applyCommit() and into the top-level run(). Also fix a bug
in that code which interpreted the value of detectRenames as a
string rather than as a boolean.
[pw: fix documentation, rearrange code a bit]
Signed-off-by: Gary Gibbons <ggibbons@perforce.com>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Attach example sections to previous level of indenting.
Fix a trailing ::
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The verbose flag is common to all classes, or at least should be.
Make it a member of the base Command class, rather than
reimplementing for each class. Make option parsing mirror this.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous one is already in 'next' but was somewhat lacking.
The configuration "git-p4.validLabelRegexp" is now called
"labelExportRegexp", and its default covers lowercase alphabets as
well.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing label import code looks at each commit being
imported, and then checks for labels at that commit. This
doesn't work in the real world though because it will drop
labels applied on changelists that have already been imported,
a common pattern.
This change adds a new --import-labels option. With this option,
at the end of the sync, git p4 gets sets of labels in p4 and git,
and then creates a git tag for each missing p4 label.
This means that tags created on older changelists are
still imported.
Tags that could not be imported are added to an ignore
list.
The same sets of git and p4 tags and labels can also be used to
derive a list of git tags to export to p4. This is enabled with
--export-labels in 'git p4 submit'.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Move git-p4 out of contrib/fast-import into the main code base,
aside other foreign SCM tools.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* maint:
Document accumulated fixes since 1.7.9.2
Git 1.7.8.5
grep -P: Fix matching ^ and $
am: don't infloop for an empty input file
rebase -m: only call "notes copy" when rewritten exists and is non-empty
git-p4: remove bash-ism in t9800
git-p4: remove bash-ism in t9809
git-p4: fix submit regression with clientSpec and subdir clone
git-p4: set useClientSpec variable on initial clone
Makefile: add thread-utils.h to LIB_H
Conflicts:
RelNotes
t/t9809-git-p4-client-view.sh
If --use-client-spec was given, set the matching configuration
variable. This is necessary to ensure that future submits
work properly.
The alternatives of requiring the user to set it, or providing
a command-line option on every submit, are error prone.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
RCS keywords cause problems for git-p4 as perforce always
expands them (if +k is set) and so when applying the patch,
git reports that the files have been modified by both sides,
when in fact they haven't.
This change means that when git-p4 detects a problem applying
a patch, it will check to see if keyword expansion could be
the culprit. If it is, it strips the keywords in the p4
repository so that they match what git is expecting. It then
has another go at applying the patch.
This behaviour is enabled with a new git-p4 configuration
option and is off by default.
Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce new tests that look more closely at overlay situations
when there are conflicting files. Five of these are broken.
Document the brokenness.
This is a fundamental problem with how git-p4 only "borrows" a
client spec. At some sync operation, a new change can contain
a file which is already in the repo or explicitly deleted through
another mapping. To sort this out would involve listing all the
files in the client spec to find one with a higher priority.
While this is not too hard for the initial import, subsequent
sync operations would be very costly.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clarify there is a -M option, but no -C. These are both
configurable through variables.
Explain that the allowSubmit variable takes a comma-separated
list of branch names.
Catch earlier an invalid branch name given as an argument to
"git p4 clone".
Test option --origin, variable allowSubmit, and explicit master
branch name.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The depot path is required, even with this option. Make sure
git-p4 fails and exits with non-zero.
Contents in the specified depot path will be rearranged according
to the client spec. Test this and add a note in the docs.
Leave an XXX suggesting that this is somewhat confusing behavior
that might be good to fix later.
Function stripRepoPath() looks at self.useClientSpec. Make sure
this is set both for command-line option --use-client-spec and
for configuration variable git-p4.useClientSpec. Test this.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explain that it is needed on future syncs to find p4 branches
in refs/heads. Test this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Clone with --branch will not checkout HEAD, unless the branch
happens to be called the default refs/remotes/p4/master. The
--branch option is most useful with sync; give an example of
that.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Document how git-p4 currently works when specifying multiple
depot paths:
1. No branches or directories are named.
2. Conflicting files are silently ignored---the last change
wins.
2. Option --destination is required, else the last path is construed
to be a directory.
3. Revision specifiers must be the same on all paths for them to
take effect.
Test this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add proper documentation for git-p4. Delete the old .txt
documentation from contrib/fast-import.
Cc: Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com>
Cc: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Lars Schneider
Lex Spoon
Luke Diamand
Pete Wyckoff
Michael Schubert
Junio C Hamano
Thomas Ackermann
Gary Gibbons