[p4] Demerging in Perforce in General

[Robert Cowham]

I don't have the book and thus the precise reference to hand, but Practical
Perforce documents the otherwise undoc'ed p4 merge3 command.

If I recall correctly, p80 shows how to undo a conflict resolution merge (I
recently pointed someone else at this so think I am right). The same
techniques would work for branching changes.

However, regarding branching, you can't remove the branching history, even
if by various bits of integ/merge3 magic (and ignoring conflicts) you could
do the right thing. The best bet is probably a new branch with the history
you want. (Let's not even go think of obliterating of revisions...)

Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> Weintraub, David
> Sent: 27 July 2006 13:04
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] Demerging in Perforce in General
> 
> Actually, this brings up an interesting question...
> 
> How do you "unmerge" code from a file? In most version 
> control systems, you can specify a merge in reverse to say 
> "remove any changes that this particular version of the file 
> had made". It can be important to undo something that 
> shouldn't have been included in the version in the first place.
> 
> It looks like you can sort of do this via the "p4 integrate" 
> command, but only by creating a new branch in the first 
> place. However, I'm looking for a two things:
> 
> * Demerging without branching. Sort of controversial, but 
> other version control systems do allow it.
> * A way of demerging an entire branch that was previously 
> merged into another branch.
> 
> Is this possible in Perforce?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> Aklujkar, Abhijit
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:13 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] unsync the change list from the latest..??
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> How do we unsync or ignore a particular change list from the 
> latest submitted code...??
> 
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> 
> Thank You.
> 
>  
> 
> ~ Abhi
> 
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