Migrate from Perforce to Git

October 13, 2017

I had been using Perforce for revision control mostly for Windows and binary files (excel, PDF, etc.). It worked amazingly well and had a powerful GUI! However I finally decided to consolidate on Git.

Primary instructions are from git scm

In CentOS you will need the helper package:

$ sudo yum install git-p4

The following steps worked perfectly for me.

My Git projects are in ~/git (where the converted project will end up)
My Perforce server is on atlas
I use ~/work as my working directory (where I clone, checkout, etc.)

[mirandam@atlas ~]$ mkdir ~/git/p4proj
[mirandam@atlas ~]$ cd ~/git/p4proj

[mirandam@atlas p4proj]$ git init --bare
[mirandam@atlas p4proj]$ cd ~/work

[mirandam@atlas work]$ export P4PORT=atlas:1666
[mirandam@atlas work]$ p4 login
Enter password: 
User mirandam logged in. 

[mirandam@atlas work]$ git p4 clone //depot@all p4proj
Importing from //depot@all into p4proj
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /home/mirandam/work/p4proj/.git/
Import destination: refs/remotes/p4/master
Importing revision 189 (100%)

[mirandam@atlas work]$ cd p4proj

[mirandam@atlas p4proj]$ git remote add origin ~/git/p4proj
[mirandam@atlas p4proj]$ git push origin master
Counting objects: 2268, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (770/770), done.
Writing objects: 100% (2268/2268), 159.98 MiB | 128.79 MiB/s, done.
Total 2268 (delta 1272), reused 2268 (delta 1272)
To /home/mirandam/git/p4proj
 * [new branch]      master -> master

Now in my work directory I can perform changes and continue working.

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