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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-p4.txt3
-rwxr-xr-xgit-p4.py20
-rwxr-xr-xt/t9806-git-p4-options.sh2
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
index beff6229c8..2623bee5fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt
@@ -174,8 +174,7 @@ subsequent 'sync' operations.
--branch <branch>::
Import changes into given branch. If the branch starts with
'refs/', it will be used as is, otherwise the path 'refs/heads/'
- will be prepended. The default branch is 'master'. If used
- with an initial clone, no HEAD will be checked out.
+ will be prepended. The default branch is 'p4/master'.
+
This example imports a new remote "p4/proj2" into an existing
git repository:
diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index 7a0c0409be..c59ad93034 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -3118,17 +3118,15 @@ class P4Clone(P4Sync):
if not P4Sync.run(self, depotPaths):
return False
- if self.branch != "master":
- if self.importIntoRemotes:
- masterbranch = "refs/remotes/p4/master"
- else:
- masterbranch = "refs/heads/p4/master"
- if gitBranchExists(masterbranch):
- system("git branch master %s" % masterbranch)
- if not self.cloneBare:
- system("git checkout -f")
- else:
- print "Could not detect main branch. No checkout/master branch created."
+
+ # create a master branch and check out a work tree
+ if gitBranchExists(self.branch):
+ system([ "git", "branch", "master", self.branch ])
+ if not self.cloneBare:
+ system([ "git", "checkout", "-f" ])
+ else:
+ print 'Not checking out any branch, use ' \
+ '"git checkout -q -b master <branch>"'
# auto-set this variable if invoked with --use-client-spec
if self.useClientSpec_from_options:
diff --git a/t/t9806-git-p4-options.sh b/t/t9806-git-p4-options.sh
index 4900aef19e..2ad3a3e0ca 100755
--- a/t/t9806-git-p4-options.sh
+++ b/t/t9806-git-p4-options.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ test_expect_success 'clone no --git-dir' '
test_must_fail git p4 clone --git-dir=xx //depot
'
-test_expect_failure 'clone --branch should checkout master' '
+test_expect_success 'clone --branch should checkout master' '
git p4 clone --branch=refs/remotes/p4/sb --dest="$git" //depot &&
test_when_finished cleanup_git &&
(