git p4: allow short ref names to --branch

For a clone or sync, --branch says where the newly imported
branch should go, or which existing branch to sync up.  It
takes an argument, which is currently either something that
starts with "refs/", or if not, "refs/heads/p4" is prepended.

Putting it in heads seems like a bad default; these should
go in remotes/p4/ in most situations.  Make that the new default,
and be more liberal in the form of the branch name.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py
index c59ad93034..2d0b58f0b4 100755
--- a/git-p4.py
+++ b/git-p4.py
@@ -2841,8 +2841,18 @@ class P4Sync(Command, P4UserMap):
                 if not self.silent and not self.detectBranches:
                     print "Performing incremental import into %s git branch" % self.branch
 
+        # accept multiple ref name abbreviations:
+        #    refs/foo/bar/branch -> use it exactly
+        #    p4/branch -> prepend refs/remotes/ or refs/heads/
+        #    branch -> prepend refs/remotes/p4/ or refs/heads/p4/
         if not self.branch.startswith("refs/"):
-            self.branch = "refs/heads/" + self.branch
+            if self.importIntoRemotes:
+                prepend = "refs/remotes/"
+            else:
+                prepend = "refs/heads/"
+            if not self.branch.startswith("p4/"):
+                prepend += "p4/"
+            self.branch = prepend + self.branch
 
         if len(args) == 0 and self.depotPaths:
             if not self.silent: