[p4] integrating when destination has been deleted

[David Jones]

On 31 Aug 2006, at 13:33, Robert Cowham wrote:

>> Imagine if, rather than have a branch or delete just
>> automatically apply, you had to resolve it and do an "accept
>> theirs" or an "accept yours" such that from that point on you
>> would not have to revisit the integration and you wouldn't
>> have had to modify a branch spec.
>> Integrating an add with "accept theirs" would make the file
>> present and with "accept yours" would have the file missing.
>> Integrating a delete would make the file missing with "accept
>> theirs" and present with "accept yours".
>>
>> That is the way I believe it should behave,
>
> Yes, yes, yes - get's my vote!!

Mine too.

This could also naturally fix the perforce misfeature whereby fixes  
that have been applied to files on branches no longer get accounted  
for if the file is deleted on the branch then integed (back into the  
mainline for example).

drj