[p4] Very old pending change lists

Robert Cowham robert at vaccaperna.co.uk
Wed Dec 6 08:51:43 PST 2006


> Deleting a client closes any file opened for editing, but I 
> also thought it closes all the changelists opened by that 
> client. I guess I'll have to reread the documentation to verify this.

IIRC this wasn't always the case - can't remember the server release which
fixed it.

Thus I think it's a hangover of old server versions, and manual delete will
sort.

Robert

> On 12/6/06, Jamison, Shawn <sjamison at ciena.com> wrote:
> > Howdy everyone!
> >
> > I was trolling through the Pending change lists and found some very 
> > old change list dating from 2000 and 2001.
> >
> > Some of the old Change lists are in the 2000 range when we are 
> > currently working on 254000+ numbers.
> >
> > Why doesn't deleting the client spec and user delete any associated 
> > pending change lists?
> >
> > Is it safe to just delete these assuming they are empty?


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