[p4] Difference between "edit" and "add" in "p4 opened" output?

[Stephen Vance]

They'll show up with integration history like you want. That's just how
Perforce designates them as a shorthand in that situation.

Steve

Roy Smith wrote:
> I'm moving a directory from one part of my source tree to another.  I  
> did:
>
> p4 integ foo/... bar/foo/...
> p4 delete foo/...
>
> As expected, the files in the new location show up with "p4 opened"  
> as "branch default change (text)".
>
> Before I submit, I need to edit some of the files to change #include  
> paths.  I use the emacs integration, so on each of those files, I did  
> "c-x p e" (p4-edit).  When I look at any of those edited files with  
> "p4 opened", they show up as "add default change (ktext)".  I  
> expected them to be listed as "edit", not "add".
>
> Should I be worried?  My concern is that they will show up as new  
> files, and I'll lose the revision history going back to their old  
> locations in the source tree.
>
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