[p4] trying to keep my changes but also test the versions submittedto perforce??

[Arieh Schneier]

I wrote a scripts to backup/restore changelists, which basically does
what you were doing manually. I then found that those scripts had
already been written and shared publicly by Jeff Grills (I haven't used
his version but I'm pretty sure they do what you want). Search the
public depot for p4tar and p4untar (this link should work
http://public.perforce.com:8080/@md=d&cd=//guest/jeff_grills/&c=xQZ@//gu
est/jeff_grills/p4tar/?ac=83 ).

Arieh.

-----Original Message-----
I am working on several files, sometimes I need to test some of my
friends changes to those files submitted after I started my work. In
order to do that, I go manually to all my changed files, and copy them
to some names like filename.copylater, update my whole directory from
perforce. When I am done with testing and go back to my work; manually
copy my files filename.copylater and recompile. It is a painful process,
but I dont want my unfinalized changes to be submitted into perforce,
but at the same time I have to check my friends changes which are
submitted after I started working on my files.

Is there a way to automate this process without submitting my files??

Thanks