If the git commits you are submitting contain changes made by
other people, the authorship will not be retained. Change git-p4
to warn of this and to note that --preserve-user can be used
to solve the problem (if you have suitable permissions).
The warning can be disabled.
Add a test case and update documentation.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Patches from git passed into p4 end up with the committer being identified
as the person who ran git-p4.
With "submit --preserve-user", git-p4 modifies the p4 changelist (after it
has been submitted), setting the p4 author field.
The submitter is required to have sufficient p4 permissions or git-p4
refuses to proceed. If the git author is not known to p4, the submit will
be abandoned unless git-p4.allowMissingP4Users is true.
Signed-off-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using the p4 client spec, this attempts to obey the client's
output preferences.
For example, a view like
//depot/foo/branch/... //client/branch/foo/...
//depot/bar/branch/... //client/branch/bar/...
will result in a directory layout in the git tree of
branch/
branch/foo
branch/bar
p4 can do various other reordering that this change doesn't support,
but we should detect it and at least fail nicely.
Signed-off-by: Ian Wienand <ianw@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Acked-by: Tor Arvid Lund <torarvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch massages the documentation a bit for improved readability and cleans
it up from outdated options/commands.
Signed-off-by: Simon Hausmann <simon@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I am not entirely clear what these parameters do but felt it
useful to call them out in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>