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diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index c3ff7d0d9b..c83aaf39c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ $ git p4 sync //path/in/your/perforce/depot ------------ This imports the specified depot into 'refs/remotes/p4/master' in an existing Git repository. The -'--branch' option can be used to specify a different branch to +`--branch` option can be used to specify a different branch to be used for the p4 content. If a Git repository includes branches 'refs/remotes/origin/p4', these @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ from a Git remote, this can be useful in a multi-developer environment. If there are multiple branches, doing 'git p4 sync' will automatically use the "BRANCH DETECTION" algorithm to try to partition new changes -into the right branch. This can be overridden with the '--branch' +into the right branch. This can be overridden with the `--branch` option to specify just a single branch to update. @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Submit ~~~~~~ Submitting changes from a Git repository back to the p4 repository requires a separate p4 client workspace. This should be specified -using the 'P4CLIENT' environment variable or the Git configuration +using the `P4CLIENT` environment variable or the Git configuration variable 'git-p4.client'. The p4 client must exist, but the client root will be created and populated if it does not already exist. @@ -150,10 +150,10 @@ $ git p4 submit topicbranch ------------ The upstream reference is generally 'refs/remotes/p4/master', but can -be overridden using the '--origin=' command-line option. +be overridden using the `--origin=` command-line option. The p4 changes will be created as the user invoking 'git p4 submit'. The -'--preserve-user' option will cause ownership to be modified +`--preserve-user` option will cause ownership to be modified according to the author of the Git commit. This option requires admin privileges in p4, which can be granted using 'p4 protect'. @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ General options All commands except clone accept these options. --git-dir <dir>:: - Set the 'GIT_DIR' environment variable. See linkgit:git[1]. + Set the `GIT_DIR` environment variable. See linkgit:git[1]. -v:: --verbose:: @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Git repository: where they will be treated as remote-tracking branches by linkgit:git-branch[1] and other commands. This option instead puts p4 branches in 'refs/heads/p4/'. Note that future - sync operations must specify '--import-local' as well so that + sync operations must specify `--import-local` as well so that they can find the p4 branches in refs/heads. --max-changes <n>:: @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Git repository: default, involves removing the entire depot path. With this option, the full p4 depot path is retained in Git. For example, path '//depot/main/foo/bar.c', when imported from - '//depot/main/', becomes 'foo/bar.c'. With '--keep-path', the + '//depot/main/', becomes 'foo/bar.c'. With `--keep-path`, the Git path is instead 'depot/main/foo/bar.c'. --use-client-spec:: @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ These options can be used to modify 'git p4 submit' behavior. --origin <commit>:: Upstream location from which commits are identified to submit to p4. By default, this is the most recent p4 commit reachable - from 'HEAD'. + from `HEAD`. -M:: Detect renames. See linkgit:git-diff[1]. Renames will be @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ p4 revision specifier on the end: Import all changes from both named depot paths into a single repository. Only files below these directories are included. There is not a subdirectory in Git for each "proj1" and "proj2". - You must use the '--destination' option when specifying more + You must use the `--destination` option when specifying more than one depot path. The revision specifier must be specified identically on each depot path. If there are files in the depot paths with the same name, the path with the most recently @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ CLIENT SPEC The p4 client specification is maintained with the 'p4 client' command and contains among other fields, a View that specifies how the depot is mapped into the client repository. The 'clone' and 'sync' commands -can consult the client spec when given the '--use-client-spec' option or +can consult the client spec when given the `--use-client-spec` option or when the useClientSpec variable is true. After 'git p4 clone', the useClientSpec variable is automatically set in the repository configuration file. This allows future 'git p4 submit' commands to @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ different areas in the tree, and indicate related content. 'git p4' can use these mappings to determine branch relationships. If you have a repository where all the branches of interest exist as -subdirectories of a single depot path, you can use '--detect-branches' +subdirectories of a single depot path, you can use `--detect-branches` when cloning or syncing to have 'git p4' automatically find subdirectories in p4, and to generate these as branches in Git. @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ git-p4.labelImportRegexp:: git-p4.useClientSpec:: Specify that the p4 client spec should be used to identify p4 depot paths of interest. This is equivalent to specifying the - option '--use-client-spec'. See the "CLIENT SPEC" section above. + 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:: @@ -515,20 +515,18 @@ git-p4.pathEncoding:: 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. + 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 [1] is implemented right now. Download - and install the Git LFS command line extension to use this option - and configure it like this: + 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 ------------- -+ - [1] https://git-lfs.github.com/ git-p4.largeFileExtensions:: All files matching a file extension in the list will be processed @@ -549,6 +547,21 @@ 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:: |