dpreid@xxxxxxxxx wrote on Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:20 +0100:
> 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.
[..]
> 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
Yes, this is a good bug. You could do "git rev-parse -q --verify"
on parent before trying to read the rev-list.
But then what should happen? I suspect git-p4 will just create
that ref when it commits the change it is considering.
-- Pete
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