As part of my work to help get git-p4 close to bug-free before Git 2.0, I'm posting all bugs and patches to this mailing list. Please direct me elsewhere if this is incorrect. When trying to clone a particular directory from a depot, that contains one or more branches that contain no commits for that directory, branch detection is broken and results in a failed clone. fatal: ambiguous argument 'refs/remotes/p4/silly_project_branch/trunk': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/dreid/bin/git-p4", line 3295, in ? main() File "/home/dreid/bin/git-p4", line 3289, in main if not cmd.run(args): File "/home/dreid/bin/git-p4", line 3163, in run if not P4Sync.run(self, depotPaths): File "/home/dreid/bin/git-p4", line 3016, in run self.importChanges(changes) File "/home/dreid/bin/git-p4", line 2678, in importChanges blob = self.searchParent(parent, branch, tempBranch) File "/home/dreid/bin/git-p4", line 2600, in searchParent for blob in read_pipe_lines(["git", "rev-list", "--reverse", File "/home/dreid/bin/git-p4", line 155, in read_pipe_lines die('Command failed: %s' % str(c)) File "/home/dreid/bin/git-p4", line 106, in die raise Exception(msg) Exception: Command failed: ['git', 'rev-list', '--reverse', '--no-merges', 'refs/remotes/p4/silly_project_branch/trunk'] Original command: $ git-p4 clone //insane_depot/projects/Exchange/CompanyName/silly_project_branch@all silly-project --detect-branches -v -- 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