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| author | Lex Spoon <lex@lexspoon.org> | 2015-04-20 11:00:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-04-20 12:36:00 -0700 |
| commit | 96b2d54aeeda3af3775f571a0ab706e6f3678d7a (patch) | |
| tree | 4a0c8931bff81df138c8b46c324edc185803b490 /Documentation/git-p4.txt | |
| parent | 3d6bc9a763f56156b424e7382b4029a67a49847e (diff) | |
| download | git-96b2d54aeeda3af3775f571a0ab706e6f3678d7a.tar.gz | |
git-p4: use -m when running p4 changesls/p4-changes-block-size
Simply running "p4 changes" on a large branch can result in a "too
many rows scanned" error from the Perforce server. It is better to
use a sequence of smaller calls to "p4 changes", using the "-m"
option to limit the size of each call.
Signed-off-by: Lex Spoon <lex@lexspoon.org>
Acked-by: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-p4.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-p4.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-p4.txt b/Documentation/git-p4.txt index a1664b9f68..82aa5d6073 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-p4.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-p4.txt @@ -225,9 +225,20 @@ Git repository: they can find the p4 branches in refs/heads. --max-changes <n>:: - Limit the number of imported changes to 'n'. Useful to - limit the amount of history when using the '@all' p4 revision - specifier. + Import at most 'n' changes, rather than the entire range of + changes included in the given revision specifier. A typical + usage would be use '@all' as the revision specifier, but then + to use '--max-changes 1000' to import only the last 1000 + revisions rather than the entire revision history. + +--changes-block-size <n>:: + The internal block size to use when converting a revision + specifier such as '@all' into a list of specific change + numbers. Instead of using a single call to 'p4 changes' to + find the full list of changes for the conversion, there are a + sequence of calls to 'p4 changes -m', each of which requests + one block of changes of the given size. The default block size + is 500, which should usually be suitable. --keep-path:: The mapping of file names from the p4 depot path to Git, by |