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| author | Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> | 2011-12-25 03:07:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-12-27 19:19:30 +0100 |
| commit | 1471c6b1558f45fa11ad606fc9ea72261d965284 (patch) | |
| tree | a3d01f9a23ce264a04349e008dcd4a4ae1e66f40 /Documentation/git-p4.txt | |
| parent | git-p4: test cloning with two dirs, clarify doc (diff) | |
| download | git-1471c6b1558f45fa11ad606fc9ea72261d965284.tar.xz git-1471c6b1558f45fa11ad606fc9ea72261d965284.zip | |
git-p4: document and test clone --branch
Clone with --branch will not checkout HEAD, unless the branch
happens to be called the default refs/remotes/p4/master. The
--branch option is most useful with sync; give an example of
that.
Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index befb21704a..9305e09987 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -178,7 +178,15 @@ subsequent 'sync' operations. --branch <branch>:: Import changes into given branch. If the branch starts with 'refs/', it will be used as is, otherwise the path 'refs/heads/' - will be prepended. The default branch is 'master'. + will be prepended. The default branch is 'master'. If used + with an initial clone, no HEAD will be checked out. ++ +This example imports a new remote "p4/proj2" into an existing +git repository: +---- + $ git init + $ git p4 sync --branch=refs/remotes/p4/proj2 //depot/proj2 +---- --detect-branches:: Use the branch detection algorithm to find new paths in p4. It is |