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@@ -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.
@@ -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::
@@ -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::