Re: git-p4: commits are visible in history after 'git p4 clone', but not a single file present

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Ilya Dogolazky
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi !

I hope this is the right mailing list for question regarding the usage of
git-p4, sorry if I'm wrong.

This is the right place!

Here is my problem: I'm issuing the command
'git p4 clone //kalma/xxx/yyy@all'. (the depot //kalma/xxx/yyy/ exists on my
machine and is full of files). After this command the directory 'yyy' is
created and the history of commits is visible there by 'git log -p'.

Every commit contains author name, a title (related to the project I'm
working on, so obviously coming from perforce depot) and a single line
looking like this:

[git-p4: depot-paths = "//kalma/xxx/yyy/": change = 17473]

Beside of that, the commit is empty: not a single line of code is
changed/added. And the directory 'yyy' contains only the '.git'
subdirectory, so not a single file of the project is visible.

Please help me to understand what could be going on there, and what could I
have done wrong.

If you do something like "p4 describe 17473" what does that show?
Are the files changed all contained with //kalma/xxx/yyy?

It could be that there's a p4 version problem going on - which version
of p4 are you
using? And which platform are you using?

Thanks,
Luke