Make --with-origin the default for syncing.

Signed-off-by: Simon Hausmann <shausman@trolltech.com>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
index 30ee68c60..ed5a5c593 100755
--- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ def gitBranchExists(branch):
     proc = subprocess.Popen(["git", "rev-parse", branch], stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE);
     return proc.wait() == 0;
 
+def gitConfig(key):
+    return mypopen("git config %s" % key).read()[:-1]
+
 class Command:
     def __init__(self):
         self.usage = "usage: %prog [options]"
@@ -514,7 +517,6 @@ class P4Sync(Command):
                 optparse.make_option("--changesfile", dest="changesFile"),
                 optparse.make_option("--silent", dest="silent", action="store_true"),
                 optparse.make_option("--detect-labels", dest="detectLabels", action="store_true"),
-                optparse.make_option("--with-origin", dest="syncWithOrigin", action="store_true"),
                 optparse.make_option("--verbose", dest="verbose", action="store_true"),
                 optparse.make_option("--import-local", dest="importIntoRemotes", action="store_false"),
                 optparse.make_option("--max-changes", dest="maxChanges")
@@ -536,12 +538,15 @@ class P4Sync(Command):
         self.detectBranches = False
         self.detectLabels = False
         self.changesFile = ""
-        self.syncWithOrigin = False
+        self.syncWithOrigin = True
         self.verbose = False
         self.importIntoRemotes = True
         self.maxChanges = ""
         self.isWindows = (platform.system() == "Windows")
 
+        if gitConfig("git-p4.syncFromOrigin") == "false":
+            self.syncWithOrigin = False
+
     def p4File(self, depotPath):
         return os.popen("p4 print -q \"%s\"" % depotPath, "rb").read()
 
@@ -847,7 +852,8 @@ class P4Sync(Command):
 
         if self.syncWithOrigin:
             if gitBranchExists("origin"):
-                print "Syncing with origin first as requested by calling git fetch origin"
+                if not self.silent:
+                    print "Syncing with origin first by calling git fetch origin"
                 system("git fetch origin")
 
         createP4HeadRef = False;
@@ -1116,13 +1122,11 @@ class P4Sync(Command):
 class P4Rebase(Command):
     def __init__(self):
         Command.__init__(self)
-        self.options = [ optparse.make_option("--with-origin", dest="syncWithOrigin", action="store_true") ]
+        self.options = [ ]
         self.description = "Fetches the latest revision from perforce and rebases the current work (branch) against it"
-        self.syncWithOrigin = False
 
     def run(self, args):
         sync = P4Sync()
-        sync.syncWithOrigin = self.syncWithOrigin
         sync.run([])
         print "Rebasing the current branch"
         oldHead = mypopen("git rev-parse HEAD").read()[:-1]
diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4.txt b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4.txt
index aa9f31e5f..c315158d8 100644
--- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4.txt
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4.txt
@@ -70,18 +70,10 @@ repository can be used to clone the working repository from and one would
 import from Perforce directly after cloning using git-p4. If the connection to
 the Perforce server is slow and the working repository hasn't been synced for a
 while it may be desirable to fetch changes from the origin git repository using
-the efficient git protocol. git-p4 supports this through
+the efficient git protocol. git-p4 supports this setup by calling "git fetch origin"
+by default if there is an origin branch. You can disable this using
 
-  git-p4 sync --with-origin
-
-or
-
-  git-p4 rebase --with-origin
-
-In that case "git fetch origin" is called and if it turns out that the origin
-branch is newer than the git "p4" import branch then the latter is updated from
-the former and the direct import from Perforce is resumed, which will result in
-fewer changes to be imported using the slower perforce connection.
+  git config git-p4.syncFromOrigin false
 
 Updating
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