Fwd: Git p4 sync changelist interval

["Андрей Ефанов" <1134togo@gmail.com>]

2017-06-04 14:09 GMT+03:00 Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>:
>
> On 4 June 2017 at 10:56, Андрей Ефанов <1134togo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > My goal is to sync the repository from p4 using an interval of
> > changelists so that the first changelist version of the repository
> > would be considered as an initial commit.
> > So I used the following command:
> >
> >  git p4 clone //depot@cl1,cl2
> >
> > And when it finished, the files, that were created before the cl1 were
> > not in the HEAD.
>
> Do you mean that if foo.c was created at cl1+1, that after doing the
> clone, it wasn't there?
>
> If so, that doesn't sound right to me.
>
> I have just tried doing what I think you mean:
>
> 1. Create p4 depot
> 2. Add foo.c (at CL 2)
> 3. Add bar.c (at CL 3)
> 4. git-p4 clone //depot@2,3
>
> I end up with both files.
>
> >
> > The problem, as I see it, is that before syncing changes in the given
> > range, p4 task does not sync to cl1 version of the repo, and applies
> > commits to the empty repository.
> > Is it a bug or my misunderstanding of how git p4 should work?
>
> Possibly I'm misunderstanding what you're doing! Can you give a
> sequence of steps to show the problem?

What I meant is:

1. Create p4 depot
2. Add first.file (CL 2)
3. Add second.file (at CL 3)
4. Add third.file (at CL 4)
5. Modify first.file (at CL 5)
4. git-p4 clone //depot@3,5

In this case first.file, will not be represented in the repository.

Regards,
Andrew