A common error is to do "git-p4 sync" in a repository that
was not initialized by "git-p4 clone". There will be no
p4 refs. The error message in this case is a traceback
for an assertion, which is confusing.
Change it instead to explain the likely problem.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <redacted>
Acked-By: Tor Arvid Lund <redacted>
---
contrib/fast-import/git-p4 | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
index 6b847c4..04e6c3d 100755
--- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
@@ -1676,6 +1676,8 @@ class P4Sync(Command):
changes.sort()
else:
+ if not self.p4BranchesInGit:
+ die("No remote p4 branches. Perhaps you never did \"git p4 clone\" in here.");
if self.verbose:
print "Getting p4 changes for %s...%s" % (', '.join(self.depotPaths),
self.changeRange)--
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