[p4] Marking a file "do not submit"?
Roy Smith
smith_roy at emc.com
Sat Jul 28 07:25:26 PDT 2007
Is there a way to mark an open file, "do not submit"?
We just had an incident of somebody submitting a change which
consisted of several files he wanted to submit, plus one that was
picked up by accident. The accidental one was an experimental idea
he'd been working on for a long time in a different part of the
tree. He probably forgot that he still had it open and didn't look
at the list of file in the changlist too closely, so it got submitted
by accident.
This isn't the first time it's happened (to various people, including
myself).
If there was a way to mark a file, "still open for editing, but don't
ever include in a default changelist". This will let you keep edited
files around for a long time without risking accidental submissions
like this. I know, I know, you really should make a new branch for
stuff like this, but sometimes that's more overhead than it's worth.
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Roy Smith <smith_roy at emc.com>
Software Guy, EMC Common Management Group
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