How do I add a client without doing a full "get"?

[PaulDuBoisPaul_Du_Bois at geoworks.com]

Ping Huang writes:
> ship him or her the hard disk).  The new engineer now have bits on
> disk and corresponding client information as long as their P4CLIENT
> and P4USER (or defaults values thereof) match what you used when you
> did the get for them.

Or you can ship them the files, and have the user do a "p4 flush" -- this is
an undocumented command that essentially does a "get" without really doing
the "get".  I'm not sure of the semantics of p4 flush when you have files
open for edit.

You probably want to make sure that the shipped files really do match the
depot when you do a p4 flush -- doing a p4 diff -se is likely to be more
painful than the initial get! ;)

p