On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 19:19, Luke Diamand <l...@diamand.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 14:45, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Luke Diamand <l...@diamand.org> writes:
> >
> > > The branch detection code looks for branches under refs/remotes/p4/...
> > > and can end up getting confused if there are unshelved changes in
> > > there as well. This happens in the function p4BranchesInGit().
> > >
> > > Instead, put the unshelved changes into refs/remotes/p4-unshelved/<N>.
> >
> > I am not a p4 user (and not a git-p4 user), so it is a bit hard for
> > me to assess if this is a backward incompatibile change and if so
> > how serious potential breakage to existing users would be.
>
> I don't think it's a particularly serious breakage - it reports the
> branch it unshelves to, so it should be fairly obvious.
>
> However, maybe it would make sense to pull this into a separate commit
> to make it more obvious? I should have thought of that before
> submitting.
>
> >
> > >
> > > -If the target branch in refs/remotes/p4/unshelved already exists, the 
> > > old one will
> > > +If the target branch in refs/remotes/p4-unshelved already exists, the 
> > > old one will
> > >  be renamed.
> > >
> > >  ----
> > >  $ git p4 sync
> > >  $ git p4 unshelve 12345
> > > -$ git show refs/remotes/p4/unshelved/12345
> > > +$ git show p4/unshelved/12345
> >
> > Isn't this "p4-unshelved/12345" now?
>
> Yes, I think another reason to pull into a separate commit.

D'oh. It's already in a separate commit.
I'll re-roll fixing that documentation.

I think it will be fine to change the branch that the unshelving
happens into - I think it's very unlikely anyone is basing some
automated scripts on this, because of the way that unshelving is used
anyway.

Luke

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