X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=Documentation%2Fgit-p4import.txt;h=ee9e8fa9090f88d1eb45ddbdb73866e0dc1fd53d;hb=922819c3d51bb048fe2194f33c275abe4c3d4b6a;hp=b8ff1e9bdebf04132a5b7dc85305ce0a20e95e09;hpb=44fe4f522e63d3f01174459af674af2f9c293671;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4import.txt b/Documentation/git-p4import.txt index b8ff1e9bd..ee9e8fa90 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4import.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-p4import - Import a Perforce repository into git SYNOPSIS -------- -`git-p4import` [-q|-v] [--authors ] [-t ] +`git-p4import` [-q|-v] [--notags] [--authors ] [-t ] `git-p4import` --stitch @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ OPTIONS Specify an authors file containing a mapping of Perforce user ids to full names and email addresses (see Notes below). +\--notags:: + Do not create a tag for each imported commit. + \--stitch:: Import the contents of the given perforce branch into the currently checked out git branch. @@ -125,10 +128,10 @@ Tags A git tag of the form p4/xx is created for every change imported from the Perforce repository where xx is the Perforce changeset number. Therefore after the import you can use git to access any commit by its -Perforce number, eg. git show p4/327. +Perforce number, e.g. git show p4/327. The tag associated with the HEAD commit is also how `git-p4import` -determines if their are new changes to incrementally import from the +determines if there are new changes to incrementally import from the Perforce repository. If you import from a repository with many thousands of changes @@ -140,7 +143,7 @@ may delete the tags. Notes ----- -You can interrupt the import (eg. ctrl-c) at any time and restart it +You can interrupt the import (e.g. ctrl-c) at any time and restart it without worry. Author information is automatically determined by querying the