[p4] Merging an indirect branch to the mainline.

[Raghu Kumar C]

Hi,

	I have a mainline branch called A. From this I have a branch
called A1 with a branch spec. Now I have created a new branch from A1
called A2 with another branch spec. The pictorial view looks like this.

----------------------------A
        |
        |
        -----------A1
             |
             |
             -----------A2 

	Integration from A1 to A using the branch spec works perfect. It
only shows me those files that have changed during integration.

	Now, when I integrate from A2 to A, I am not able to integrate
it using the branch spec, so I used the file spec option to integrate.
The problem here is instead of showing me only those files that have
changed between A and A2 it shows me all the files inside the A2 branch,
which runs into thousands. My doubt is - is this expected behaviour?
Can't the tool trace the branch's ancestry? Is there a better way to
branch where I just need to merge only the changed files instead of the
whole list of files in my branch? I am on Perforce 2003.1/46260.

Thank you,
Raghu
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