[p4] Moving a changelist across to a new branch?

Robert Cowham robert at vaccaperna.co.uk
Thu May 1 01:54:45 PDT 2008


There are a couple of related utilities:

Perforce Public depot:

//guest/chris_stoy/p4_shelve/readme.txt

And

http://code.google.com/p/p4shelf/

Robert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Greg 
> Whitfield
> Sent: 30 April 2008 14:15
> To: Troughton, Robert; Perforce Users
> Subject: Re: [p4] Moving a changelist across to a new branch?
> 
> See Perforce knowledgebase:
> 
> http://kb.perforce.com/UserTasks/CodelinesAndBranching/Branchi
> ngWorkInPr
> ogress
> 
> Greg
> ~~~~ 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> Troughton, Robert
> Sent: 30 April 2008 12:38
> To: Perforce Users
> Subject: [p4] Moving a changelist across to a new branch?
> 
> Imagine a situation where a programmer has been working on a 
> change that's turned out to be much bigger than he'd first 
> expected... his changelist expands to, say, 100 changes, a 
> mixture of adds, deletes and edits, and it looks like the 
> changelist will get bigger still before he's finally able to 
> check it in.
> 
> So... after two weeks of work, he decides that he should've 
> created a branch for his changed.
> 
> Basically... how easy would it be to create that branch from 
> the current "head" version on Perforce and to pull his 
> changelist across to that branch instead?
> 
> Sorry if I've explained this badly ... I hope the question 
> makes some sense?
> 
> Robert
> 
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