[p4] Question about branching.

[Robert Cowham]

> One additional comment: the situation is very close to a 
> common situation that a Java developer might encounter....
> 
>     "I have x.java that defines class 'x' and want to copy it 
> to y.java to create a class 'y'.  My Perforce-folks encourage 
> me to use an 'integrate/submit' so that it is clear that I 
> made a copy of x.java to start from, but I need to change the 
> class or package statement before I submit it, so that 
> revision #1 of the new file is immediately usable."
> 
> Steve's response remains perfect for that situation also: 
> integ / edit / submit.

P4WSAD, Perforce's plugin for Eclipse does this automatically for you when
you do a rename via the refactoring menu.

Robert