[p4] Syncing only to labeled files using p4 command line

[Shawn Hladky]

p4 sync ...@=LastWorkingRevision

On 5/3/06, Ken.Williams at thomson.com <Ken.Williams at thomson.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This strikes me as a question I should probably already know the answer
> to, but I couldn't seem to find it from perusing the Tech Notes on
> labels, or the section of Chapter 6 in the docs on labels.
>
> I've got a label called "LastWorkingRevision", which is a light-weight
> way for our developers to indicate the last working revision of a set of
> files they're working on when they know the head revision is broken.
> The idea is that if syncing to head & building & testing fails, team
> members should be able to sync to head then sync to this label and
> probably get a working build.
>
> Using p4win, we can sync to head, then right-click on the label and
> select "sync specific files to label" to achieve this effect.  Using the
> p4 command-line client (on Linux) though, I'm not sure what the easiest
> way is.  If we do "p4 sync ... at LastWorkingRevision", all files not
> mentioned in the label are deleted.
>
> Any tips?
>
> -Ken
>
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