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git-p4 is not cloning perforce code properly

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I am trying to clone perforce branch from git to my local drive, but it's skipping too many files and change list while fetching it from perforce.

It'll be very helpful if anyone can suggest me about how to git rid with this issue.

posted Feb 10, 2015 by anonymous

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When you say "skipping", can you be more specific please? What command line are you using?

If I want to clone the P4 tree at the current revision, I do something like:

$ git p4 clone //depot/sometree/...

That gets me just a single revision.

If I want all revisions back to the start of time, I do:

$ git p4 clone //depot/sometree/...@all
answer Feb 10, 2015 by Kiran
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