Re: git to p4 conversion

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Endre Czirbesz [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Vitor,

2011/2/4 Vitor Antunes [off-list ref]:

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I dropped the whole directory, and then recreated it, I do not know
any better 'cleanup'. :)

Which directory did you drop? Was is the git repository or the P4 workspace?
You need to clean up the later. Basically, a "rm -rf
path/to/p4_workspace" and a "p4 sync -f" should do the trick :)

It is almost the same in my case. :)
My p4 client root is ~/work/, my project dir is ~/work/projdir (and at
the moment this is the only directory within ~/work/), and I dropped
the latter.
And then it was created again by git-p4 clone.

I... wonder if we're maybe talking past one another here...

Let's take a few things from the top, just in case... If we think
about the perforce setup (before we start doing any git stuff)... You
have a perforce workspace/client-spec, right? That is - a setup that
tells perforce where you want the files to be placed on your hard
drive when you do a standard "p4 sync". Let's call it ~/p4root/ and
let us say that your project will then be synced by perforce to
~/p4root/myproj/

When you want to do a git-p4 clone, you should definitely be *outside*
of ~/p4root/ . Let's say we have a ~/gitroot/ as well. So do cd
~/gitroot/ so that the git-p4 clone will be under ~/gitroot/myproj/ ;
and then do all the git-p4 stuff (clone, add remote, fetch, rebase,
sync, submit).

I think Vitors point was that before you do git-p4 submit, you should
clean - not ~/gitroot/myproj - but ~/p4root/myproj/.

This is probably not something that you need to do everytime you want
to submit back to perforce, but since we have had some rounds with
trial-and-error with this, we have probably placed some dirty files
inside the perforce folders... Make sure that you don't have files
opened in perforce before you sync.

Clearer? More confused? Best of luck anyway :)

    -- Tor Arvid