[p4] Howto move a client from one host to another

[Stephen Vance]

Unless you use some media like a DVD or a flash drive, you're going to 
have to copy the files over the network anyway. In that case, I would 
recommend just creating a new client.

If you're using some media for the transfer and you want the client in 
the same place (drive and path) on the new disk, just copy the files and 
change the Host field in the workspace. This will work even if you have 
edited files.

If you want to change the location of the client, then you will need to 
know what level you've synced to and do a 'p4 flush <syncpoint>' after 
you've done the previous steps, where <syncpoint> is something like 
'@256' or '@2007/05/02:16:43:21'. This assumes that you don't have 
edited files. Try to either check everything in or revert if you have 
files open for edit and want to change the location. It can be done, but 
it's error-prone.

Steve

Alexander Goller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i want to move an existing client from one (win32) host to another
> without the need to sync all the repository (which is huge and remote).
> Is there any chance to do that (we're using p4v on Windows).
>
> cheers, alex
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