[p4] Revert a changelist

[Jamie.Echlin@barclayscapital.com]

Hi Steve,

Didn't find anything in the public depot, but thanks.

> I can provide more help on the others. The revert of a branch
operation would be a delete as the only option short of obliterate.

The problem with this is, next time the integration is done you will get
"all revisions already integrated". What you want to happen is for the
integ to happen again, as though the initial changelist had never
happened. I can't see anyway around this without an oblit.

Cheers, jamie

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Vance [mailto:steve at vance.com] 
Sent: 12 July 2007 15:10
To: Echlin, Jamie: IT (LDN)
Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Revert a changelist

Jamie --

If someone has an implementation, it's probably in the Public Depot. I
know that's not a lot of help, but it's what I can give there. I know
Jeff Bowles has a bunch of useful scripts in his area with the same task
written in multiple languages.

I can provide more help on the others. The revert of a branch operation
would be a delete as the only option short of obliterate. The reverse of
an integrate would be a recovery of the version on the target prior to
the integration or, if appropriate, a forced integration from the
version prior to the integration source. The latter only works in very
restrictive situations involving no additional intervening revisions and
limited types of clean integrations.

Steve

Jamie.Echlin at barclayscapital.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone got a programmatic implementation of Technote 14 (how to 
> revert a changelist), in any language? Looking for a bit of a 
> headstart for one the custom tools we're doing.
>
> Also, if the changelist contains branch/integrates, I don't see how 
> you can revert that without doing an obliterate. Any idea?
>
> Cheers, jamie
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