Mercurial for offline work on Perforce projects?

[Kunle Odutola]

Hi,

I have a number of projects hosted in Perforce depots that I'd like to work
on from my laptop while disconnected from the Perforce servers hosting the
depots. My understanding from my basic research is that a distributed SCM
like Mercurial might be an ideal tool for my needs as it can be used to
effectively add offline editing capability to a centralized SCM like
Perforce.

Given that the source Perforce depots must remain the master depots (and I'd
like to preserve all history including all my individual offline commits), I
though I'd ask if anyone here felt Mercurial was suitable for working on
Perforce-hosted projects in a such a manner. I imagine the workflow would be
something like:

- Pull project + history from Perforce into 'from_p4' repo
- Branch/Clone 'from_p4' repo to create 'from_p4_working' repo
  ...
*edit-and-commit-in-'from_p4_working'-repo-as-often-as-needed*
  ...
- Merge intervening changes from Perforce into 'from_p4_working' via
'from_p4' (perhaps with option to choose wanted changes)
- Push offline changes in 'from_p4_working' repo incrementally to the
Perforce source (perhaps with option to choose changes to push)

Is this possible with Mercurial?.


Kunle