Perforce to git migration

Question

I need to migrate repos from perforce to git with all the history. I tried searching through the web, but didn't find any clear documentation mentioning each and every step in detail. I saw an utility called git-p4 but didn't find any clear documentation related to that utility too.

Can somebody explain me on how I can perform this or provide me with the documentation that is helpful.

Regards

Answer 1

There's official documentation available on git-p4. It addresses the specific scenario you describe:

To reproduce the entire p4 history in Git, use the @all modifier on the depot path:

$ git p4 clone //depot/path/project@all

Note that if you have labels in your Perforce depot you'll need to add the --import-labels option to get them. If you have branches in Perforce, you'll want to look at the --detect-branches option as well.

Note that after running this command you'll have a p4 remote in your git repo. That's for people who plan to submit from git back into p4, but since you mentioned that you were migrating you can safely delete it.