El Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:54:16 -0400 Kent Borg <kentborg@xxxxxxxx> escribió: [ CCing git mailing list. Looks like a better place to ask this question] > I have a git-p4 question: I work in a Perforce shop and am doing Linux > kernel work, I need to share that work with colleagues who see the world > as a Perforce place. The kernel I have came from Linus' tree and has a > lot of history. When I try to do my first a "git p4 submit" it chokes > as it looks back in the entire git history until it fails looking for > the ancestor of the first commit (linux-2.6.12-rc2!), I think it is > looking for the last time it did a git-p4 submit so it knows how far > back to go--but it has never done a submit in this new relationship > between p4 and git. There is plenty of git history that is not > reflected in p4, and I don't want it in p4, I just want new work in p4. > > I fear that git-p4 is for git people to contribute to bits natively > p4-homed code, not this case where the code is natively git-homed code > and it is the p4 people who will be contributing bits. > > My attempt at a work around was this: > > - create a director on the p4 side, and from the p4 side submit the > files that match my latest git submit. > > - sync with git-p4 > > - try to submit a file with git-p4...and that fails as it runs all the > way back through the history. (Thank goodness it didn't succeed in > submitting kernel activity since 2005!) > > > I was hoping I could merge the p4/master with master to force a stopping > point in the git-p4 submit, but that doesn't work, it is searching > through git history to find the stopping point. What might I put in the > git history to force the stop (or maybe make a change to git-p4 to help > my plight along)? > > > Thanks, > > -kb, the Kent who has always hated Perforce, alas. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html