[p4] P4V and check out of a binary file not at latest revision

[Melissa]

You can and must resolve the binary file. Merging is not a choice for a
binary file though. Your user should choose accept yours (The version from
his client) or accept theirs (the head revision from the server) when
resolving.


-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Nadeau
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:56 PM
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: [p4] P4V and check out of a binary file not at latest revision


Here we go for my first posting (well... not one sent by an out of office 
agent ;-))

I have the following scenario:
* a file mytexture.bmp (a binary file) is at version 10 on the server
* an artist is synced with version 7.
* he does a Check Out in P4V
* a little message in the log window gets displayed saying that he will have

to resolve #8,#10 before submitting.

But since it's a binary file that will never be possible!!!

In P4Win there is a dialog that pops up and it gives you the possibility to
do 
Sync then Edit... but I can't find an option that would give me the
equivalent 
in P4V. Am I missing something?

Or is the only solution to write a script to make sure an artist checks out 
the latest revision?

Of course one could say that the artist could have noticed before doing the 
Check Out that he was not synced to the latest revision since it's written
at 
the end of the file 
    mytexture.bmp #7/10 <binary>
But for those of you who deal with artists you surely know that it's not the

kind of things that most of them notices... ;-)
So how do you deal with this?

Thanks,

    Nancy

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