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diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index a1664b9f68..88ba42b455 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 @@ -499,6 +510,58 @@ git-p4.useClientSpec:: option '--use-client-spec'. See the "CLIENT SPEC" section above. This variable is a boolean, not the name of a p4 client. +git-p4.pathEncoding:: + Perforce keeps the encoding of a path as given by the originating OS. + Git expects paths encoded as UTF-8. Use this config to tell git-p4 + what encoding Perforce had used for the paths. This encoding is used + to transcode the paths to UTF-8. As an example, Perforce on Windows + often uses "cp1252" to encode path names. + +git-p4.largeFileSystem:: + Specify the system that is used for large (binary) files. Please note + that large file systems do not support the 'git p4 submit' command. + Only Git LFS is implemented right now (see https://git-lfs.github.com/ + for more information). Download and install the Git LFS command line + extension to use this option and configure it like this: ++ +------------- +git config git-p4.largeFileSystem GitLFS +------------- + +git-p4.largeFileExtensions:: + All files matching a file extension in the list will be processed + by the large file system. Do not prefix the extensions with '.'. + +git-p4.largeFileThreshold:: + All files with an uncompressed size exceeding the threshold will be + processed by the large file system. By default the threshold is + defined in bytes. Add the suffix k, m, or g to change the unit. + +git-p4.largeFileCompressedThreshold:: + All files with a compressed size exceeding the threshold will be + processed by the large file system. This option might slow down + your clone/sync process. By default the threshold is defined in + bytes. Add the suffix k, m, or g to change the unit. + +git-p4.largeFilePush:: + Boolean variable which defines if large files are automatically + pushed to a server. + +git-p4.keepEmptyCommits:: + A changelist that contains only excluded files will be imported + as an empty commit if this boolean option is set to true. + +git-p4.mapUser:: + Map a P4 user to a name and email address in Git. Use a string + with the following format to create a mapping: ++ +------------- +git config --add git-p4.mapUser "p4user = First Last <mail@address.com>" +------------- ++ +A mapping will override any user information from P4. Mappings for +multiple P4 user can be defined. + Submit variables ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ git-p4.detectRenames:: |