P4 merge tool help

I will pass the command as git config --global merge. The second command will tell Git where to look for the p4merge tool. So the next command tells Git not to prompt and not to launch p4merge, so every time we need to resolve a conflict, We will pass another command to resolve a conflict as git config --global mergetool.

The last command to configure out difftool is git config --global difftool. Most of the configuration that is set up in the. In the next article called Git Comparisons, you are going to understand clearly how p4merge is useful in comparing, merging, and branching. Backing Out Changes in Git Repository. Mappings for multiple P4 user can be defined.

This can be true, false, or a score as expected by git diff -M. Detect copies. This can be true, false, or a score as expected by git diff -C. On submit, re-author changes to reflect the Git author, regardless of who invokes git p4 submit. When preserveUser is true, git p4 normally dies if it cannot find an author in the p4 user map. This setting submits the change regardless. The submit process invokes the editor before each p4 change is submitted.

If this setting is true, though, the editing step is skipped. After editing the p4 change message, git p4 makes sure that the description really was changed by looking at the file modification time.

This option disables that test. By default, any branch can be used as the source for a git p4 submit operation. This configuration variable, if set, permits only the named branches to be used as submit sources. If the user running git p4 submit does not exist in the p4 user map, git p4 exits. This option can be used to force submission regardless. These would otherwise cause merge conflicts and prevent the submit going ahead.

This option should be considered experimental at present. Only p4 labels matching this regular expression will be exported. Specify submit behavior when a conflict with p4 is found, as per --conflict. The default behavior is ask. Cloning or syncing does not require a p4 client; file contents are collected using p4 print.

Submitting requires a p4 client, which is not in the same location as the Git repository. Patches are applied, one at a time, to this p4 client and submitted from there. Each commit imported by git p4 has a line at the end of the log message indicating the p4 depot location and change number. This line is used by later git p4 sync operations to know which p4 changes are new.

Setup and Config git config help bugreport Getting and Creating Projects init clone Basic Snapshotting add status diff commit notes restore reset rm mv Branching and Merging branch checkout switch merge mergetool log stash tag worktree Sharing and Updating Projects fetch pull push remote submodule. Inspection and Comparison show log diff difftool range-diff shortlog describe Patching apply cherry-pick diff rebase revert Debugging bisect blame grep Email am apply format-patch send-email request-pull External Systems svn fast-import Server Admin daemon update-server-info.

Administration clean gc fsck reflog filter-branch instaweb archive bundle Plumbing Commands cat-file check-ignore checkout-index commit-tree count-objects diff-index for-each-ref hash-object ls-files ls-tree merge-base read-tree rev-list rev-parse show-ref symbolic-ref update-index update-ref verify-pack write-tree.

Creates an empty Git repository in a subdirectory called project. Creates a local branch, master from this remote and checks it out. To reproduce the entire p4 history in Git, use the all modifier on the depot path:.

Sync As development continues in the p4 repository, those changes can be included in the Git repository using:. This command finds new changes in p4 and imports them as Git commits. P4 repositories can be added to an existing Git repository using git p4 sync too:. Rebase A common working pattern is to fetch the latest changes from the p4 depot and merge them with local uncommitted changes.

Submit Submitting changes from a Git repository back to the p4 repository requires a separate p4 client workspace. See git[1]. Sync options These options can be used in the initial clone as well as in subsequent sync operations. Clone options These options can be used in an initial clone , along with the sync options described above.

See git-clone[1]. Submit options These options can be used to modify git p4 submit behavior. This option requires p4 admin privileges. Hooks for submit p4-pre-submit The p4-pre-submit hook is executed if it exists and is executable. Rebase options These options can be used to modify git p4 rebase behavior.

Unshelve options --origin Sets the git refspec against which the shelved P4 changelist is compared. See p4 help revisions for the full syntax of p4 revision specifiers. General variables git-p4. Clone and sync variables git-p4.

This example declares that both branchA and branchB were created from main: git config git-p4. This means you can just do: git config --global merge. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. VonC VonC 1. You've got "merge. I just tried this again on a new machine. Maybe an error on my part, but just in case someone else has the same problem. Benjol: interesting, I will test it again also. Was your new machine different from your first tries?

VonC, Vista, yes. Note: according to the 3rd comment here , p4merge is now supported natively by msysgit. I'm not sure since which version. This means you can just do git config --global merge. Show 1 more comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Did these steps with diff and it works fine, only problem is with merge. Skip to content. Sign in Sign up. Instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Last active Nov 5, Code Revisions 5 Stars 67 Forks Embed What would you like to do?

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