[p4] Submit and keep open

[Viktor Haag]

Glenn Kasten writes:
 > The suggestion to write a shell script that submits and then
 > re-opens the files works when the files are unlocked.  But
 > suppose you want to keep the files locked across the submit?
 > The shell script would leave a window during which the files
 > are not locked. I think we need an atomic submit and re-open
 > that preserves the lock.  Glenn

That was certainly what I was hoping there was. I hope the folks
at Perforce can add "p4 checkpoint" or something that updates the
depot with your changeset, and then (essentially) sets you with a
changeset exactly identical to the checkpointed one, whilst
maintaining your lock on the files...

It really shouldn't be all that difficult... (he said completely
naively), since the underlying RCS versioning engine supports it
as an atomic operation...


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Viktor Haag                           Senior Technical Writer, RIM
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