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@@ -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
@@ -241,6 +252,9 @@ Git repository:
Use a client spec to find the list of interesting files in p4.
See the "CLIENT SPEC" section below.
+-/ <path>::
+ Exclude selected depot paths when cloning or syncing.
+
Clone options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These options can be used in an initial 'clone', along with the 'sync'
@@ -254,9 +268,6 @@ options described above.
--bare::
Perform a bare clone. See linkgit:git-clone[1].
--/ <path>::
- Exclude selected depot paths when cloning.
-
Submit options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These options can be used to modify 'git p4 submit' behavior.