> On 14 Feb 2017, at 19:16, Martin-Louis Bright <mlbright@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[CC'ing Luke and George]
> hi!
>
> I am using git-p4.py to migrate a lot of medium and large Perforce
> depots into git. I almost exclusively go one way: from Perforce to
> git. I also frequently re-clone/re-migrate as the Perforce migration
> client spec is refined.
>
> For this, I have added rudimentary caching in git-p4.py so that
> Perforce requests are not repeated over the network.
Martin implemented an on disk cache and "requests not repeated" applies
mostly for re-migrations. Re-migrations are multiple test migrations ("git-p4 clone")
with minor client spec changes until we find the right client spec for the
production migration.
> I have it working and tested on a ~150MB repo and the migration time was halved.
>
> Is this something that would be of interest to the larger community?
I like the idea!
Disclaimer: I work together with Martin on the P4 -> Git migrations :-)
Cheers,
Lars