When you submit changes containing deleted file the command 'p4 diff -du ...' includes diffs for deleted files. This causes the failure: open for read: <deleted file>: No such file or directory Command failed: p4 diff -du ... The problem is that perforce has been told to delete the file and then we try to apply diffs to a file which no longer exists. --- contrib/fast-import/git-p4 | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 index c1ea643..04ce7e3 100755 --- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 +++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 @@ -706,7 +706,9 @@ class P4Submit(Command): submitTemplate = self.prepareLogMessage(template, logMessage) if os.environ.has_key("P4DIFF"): del(os.environ["P4DIFF"]) - diff = p4_read_pipe("diff -du ...") + diff = "" + for editedFile in editedFiles: + diff += p4_read_pipe("diff -du %r" % editedFile) newdiff = "" for newFile in filesToAdd: -- 1.7.2.2 -- 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