X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=Documentation%2Fgit-p4.txt;h=ed827902fc540d098fc548e5bb68ab3ab95ffa25;hb=8ced9c90a28f6abc80dc5ad4cf7921c2322c0bb0;hp=78938b2930b724f80ebb6c735dba4f6dad719b23;hpb=4a3a1edd0be1c5254ae4fc66e06297d87ef7d530;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index 78938b293..ed827902f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -303,9 +303,13 @@ 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. Git-p4 can consult the client -spec when given the '--use-client-spec' option or useClientSpec -variable. +is mapped into the client repository. The 'clone' and 'sync' commands +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 +work properly; the submit command looks only at the variable and does +not have a command-line option. The full syntax for a p4 view is documented in 'p4 help views'. Git-p4 knows only a subset of the view syntax. It understands multi-line