[p4] Branching a pending changelist

[Ivey, William]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com]On Behalf Of 
> Whitfield, Greg
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 3:49 AM
> To: Mark Allender; Perforce-User List
> Subject: Re: [p4] Branching a pending changelist
> 
> 
> There's a technote on the Perforce website about this, which I've used
> for similar situations:
> 
> http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note056.html
> 
> Title "How do you branch work in progress?"

If you only need a temporary branch to hold the current work
until it can be submitted, you can avoid branching everything
by moving the opened files to the new branch, then use an
overlay mapping in the client to merge them in the client's
workspace.

Robert Cowham has an excellent blog article on this:
	http://robertcowham.com/blog/scm/p4_sparse_branching.html

-Wm