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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-05-11 14:23:46 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-05-11 14:23:46 -0700 |
commit | 120c585b229096595b4e54801a538cbef16c8240 (patch) | |
tree | 566ff1b59a7fec7924582b52e103eddb5484badc /Documentation | |
parent | Merge branch 'jc/plug-fmt-merge-msg-leak' (diff) | |
parent | git-p4: use -m when running p4 changes (diff) | |
download | tgif-120c585b229096595b4e54801a538cbef16c8240.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'ls/p4-changes-block-size'
"git p4" learned "--changes-block-size <n>" to read the changes in
chunks from Perforce, instead of making one call to "p4 changes"
that may trigger "too many rows scanned" error from Perforce.
* ls/p4-changes-block-size:
git-p4: use -m when running p4 changes
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-p4.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index a1664b9f68..82aa5d6073 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -225,9 +225,20 @@ Git repository: they can find the p4 branches in refs/heads. --max-changes <n>:: - Limit the number of imported changes to 'n'. Useful to - limit the amount of history when using the '@all' p4 revision - specifier. + Import at most 'n' changes, rather than the entire range of + changes included in the given revision specifier. A typical + usage would be use '@all' as the revision specifier, but then + to use '--max-changes 1000' to import only the last 1000 + revisions rather than the entire revision history. + +--changes-block-size <n>:: + The internal block size to use when converting a revision + specifier such as '@all' into a list of specific change + numbers. Instead of using a single call to 'p4 changes' to + find the full list of changes for the conversion, there are a + sequence of calls to 'p4 changes -m', each of which requests + one block of changes of the given size. The default block size + is 500, which should usually be suitable. --keep-path:: The mapping of file names from the p4 depot path to Git, by |