[p4] One "p4 open" command opens two revisions of one file!

[Jeff A. Bowles]

I think that "grep -i    //depot/path/filename.cpp",  against the
checkpoint, might be very helpful.  That output, fed to Tech Support, might
be the best next-step...

  -Jeff

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Matt Janulewicz
<mjanulewicz at alllucas.com>wrote:

> I've had a similar thing happen once. Check that you don't have:
>
>    //depot/path/filename.cpp
>    //depot/path/Filename.cpp
>
> Or some similar situation where you have two files, same name, different
> capitalization. Try doing this:
>
>    p4 files //depot/path/*
>
> Then look to see if you have two matching files. This error will come up
> when you're synced to a non-head revision of one of the files and try to
> check it out. Something like this:
>
>    p4 sync //depot/path/Filename.cpp#head
>    p4 sync //depot/path/filename.cpp#22
>
>    p4 open //depot/path/filename.cpp
>
> Let me guess. Unix server on a Windows client? :)
>
>
> -Matt
>
>
>
>
> On 01/12/2010 07:30 AM, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
>> Has anybody seen this before?
>>
>> % p4 open //depot/path/filename.cpp
>> //depot/path/filename.cpp#83 - opened for edit
>> ... //depot/path/filename.cpp - must sync/resolve #84,#96 before
>> submitting
>> //depot/path/filename.cpp#96 - opened for edit
>>
>> How could one "p4 open" command open two revisions of one file? I know
>> the warning about resolving can be from opening an old revision of I
>> file, but I can't figure out how the head revision #96 is also being
>> opened. The clientspec _does_ specify the hostname. I can't investigate
>> further since the situation is gone now, having been cleaned up by some
>> forced syncs, opens and submits.
>>
>> Could a user cause this or was the metadata messed up? If it was a
>> metadata problem, is there any p4/p4d check for such problems?
>>
>> The clientspec view is very simple, as shown below. There is a
>> parent-child integration relationship between parentPath and path, but
>> neither of the file revisions opened above are from the parentPath.
>>
>> View:
>>         //depot/parentPath/... //myClient/my/src/...
>>         //depot/path/... //myClient/my/dev/myProject/...
>>         -//depot/path/DATA/... //myClient/xp/dev/myProject/DATA/...
>>
>> I don't see anything interesting in the filelog of the file:
>>
>> ... #96 change 259709 edit on 2010/01/07 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'Backup'
>> ... #95 change 259622 edit on 2010/01/06 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'Backup'
>> ... #94 change 259544 edit on 2010/01/05 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'Backup'
>> ... #93 change 259533 edit on 2010/01/05 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'Daily backup'
>> ... #92 change 259480 integrate on 2010/01/05 by
>> username at usernamecrwprg033 (text) 'Got the latest code '
>> ... ... copy from //depot/parentPath/to/filename.cpp#58
>> ... #91 change 258328 edit on 2009/12/04 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'backup'
>> ... ... copy into //depot/parentPath/to/filename.cpp#57
>> ... #90 change 258322 integrate on 2009/12/04 by
>> username at usernamecrwprg033 (text) 'Got the latest code '
>> ... ... copy from //depot/parentPath/to/filename.cpp#54,#56
>> ... #89 change 254440 edit on 2009/10/09 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'Backup'
>> ... ... copy into //depot/parentPath/to/filename.cpp#53
>> ... #88 change 252657 edit on 2009/09/15 by username at usernamecrwprg033
>> (text) 'Backup '
>> ... ... copy into //depot/parentPath/to/filename.cpp#52
>> ... #87 change 251754 edit on 2009/09/01 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'Backup'
>> ... #86 change 251140 edit on 2009/08/21 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'Backup'
>> ... #85 change 251046 edit on 2009/08/20 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'backup'
>> ... #84 change 251045 edit on 2009/08/20 by username at usernamecrwprg033
>> (text) 'Backup '
>> ... #83 change 247529 edit on 2009/07/06 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'Backup'
>> ... ... copy into //depot/parentPath/to/filename.cpp#51
>> ... #82 change 247310 edit on 2009/07/01 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'Backup'
>> ... ... copy into //depot/parentPath/to/filename.cpp#50
>> ... #81 change 246869 integrate on 2009/06/25 by
>> username at usernamecrwprg033 (text) 'Got the latest code '
>> ... ... copy from //depot/parentPath/to/filename.cpp#45,#49
>> ... #80 change 246773 edit on 2009/06/24 by username at myClient (text)
>> 'Backup'
>> ... ... copy into //depot/parentPath/to/filename.cpp#44
>>
>> Rick
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