[p4] How to sync only files already present?

Peter Steiner peter.steiner at hugwi.ch
Wed Oct 4 23:09:21 PDT 2006


Thanks to Shawn and Matt for their simultaneous answer with what I was
looking for.

Shawn Hladky wrote:
> Does this do what you want?
> 
> p4 sync -n #have,#head

Yes, that's it. It never occurred to me that sync might take a revision
range.

Thanks!

> On 10/4/06, *Peter Steiner* <peter.steiner at hugwi.ch
> <mailto:peter.steiner at hugwi.ch> > wrote:
> 
>     I have a rather large client where I sync only hand-picked
>     directories/files.
> 
>     What's the best way to find out if there are newer revisions in any of
>     these files?
> 
>     I have come up so far (on Windows with cygwin) with
> 
>     p4 files #have | cut -s -d "#" -f 1 | p4 -x - sync -n 2>nul
> 
>     but this takes some time. Does anybody know a simpler and/or faster way
>     to achieve this (command line, P4Win or P4V)?

Regards, Peter
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