How can I sync only 1 particular branch from my depo in P4.
Below command needs the file name:
p4 sync -n -f //depot/...filename
But I want to sync entire branch & I've multiple branches in my laptop. How can I specifically tell P4 to sync only a particular depo branch?
Thanks!
The ... in the command line you show means, roughly, "every subtree", so it syncs that filename in all branches under your depot. Instead you can give the full path -- either in local, or depot form -- of the file you actually want:
# sync everything in a branch
p4 sync -n -f //depot/path/to/branch/...
# sync only one file in a branch
p4 sync -n -f //depot/path/to/branch/.../filename.ext
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Is it possible to get an fstat (or any other command) to return a list of all "existing" files (nothing thats been deleted/archived/etc) that dont exist on the users current workspace?
ideally, examples would be in python but standard p4 commands are fine too.
Assuming you mean files that were previously synced but have since been removed from the workspace, the standard command for this is p4 diff -sd:
diff -- Display diff of client file with depot file
p4 diff [-d<flags> -f -m max -Od -s<flag> -t] [file[rev] ...]
...
The -s options lists the files that satisfy the following criteria:
...
-sd Unopened files that are missing on the client.
You can also use p4 reconcile -n -d, p4 status -d, etc.
If you're simply looking for files that haven't been synced, that's just p4 sync -n. Files listed as added are those that are completely missing from the workspace and would hence be added to it by a sync.
TL;DR: How do I sync an existing p4 workspace to a new label, so that all my previous changes are undone, and it is as good as a new sync?
Hi,
I have a perforce workspace synced to a label L1.
I added/deleted/edited a few files
I moved a few files inside a folder (mv a.txt b.txt new_folder/)
I want to cleanly sync this workspace to label L2 now.
I already removed all shelved and pending changelists, then tried
p4 reconcile -w ... && p4 revert -w ... && p4 sync ...#L2
Looks like it almost works, except that the files I moved inside a new folder do not get synced (p4 sync -f works though). But I do not want to use p4 sync -f on the entire workspace, as it would resync the unchanged files as well.
I am sorry if this question has been answered before, I am pretty new to perforce, so maybe could not find the correct terms to search for.
The ... path limits the scope of each operation to the current directory; if you ran those commands from a different directory than the one you moved the files to, that may be why they didn't get synced. I'd do:
p4 revert //...
p4 clean //...
p4 sync #L2
I want to be able to sync ONLY the differences in the depot into my workspace.
I do not want to re-sync all the source files which already match.
I currently can see the difference with this command:
p4 diff -sd //depot/source/...
But when trying to use this command to sync the depot differences to my local workspace:
p4 diff -sd //depot/source/... | p4 -x - sync -f | p4 //depot/source/...
I receive this message in the terminal:
"- must refer to client"
Note: Prior to performing all of the above command I set my client using
p4 set P4CLIENT=MYWORKSPACE
To sync only the files that have been updated on the server since you last synced, do:
p4 sync
The default behavior of the p4 sync command is to sync only changed files; you don't need to perform any special gyrations to make that happen.
The server's notion of what's different between the server and your workspace is dependent on its records of what it sent you the last time you synced. If you've messed around with your workspace in unsupported ways (i.e. you've modified files that Perforce made read-only without "opening" them for modification), those records have been invalidated. You can fix this one of two ways, depending on what you want to do with your modifications:
p4 reconcile
will open the files you modified, allowing you to choose between reverting the modifications or submitting them.
p4 clean
will simply overwrite your modifications, similar to a p4 sync -f, but p4 clean will do a diff to figure out which files you modified and will only re-sync those files.
Is there any way to sync only the latest change list number changes.
For example if the latest change number is 1234 and has 2 files in submitted changelist. I want to sync only those 2 files not the complete folder.
The below command is syncing only the 2 files
p4 sync -f //demo/osb/Test/...#=1234;
I want to pass this value dynamically as this value will change.
I have tried the below commands but none are working.
p4 sync -f //demo/osb/Test/...#head;
p4 sync -f //demo/osb/Test/...#=head;
p4 sync -f //demo/osb/Test/...#head; --> this is updating the complete folder
p4 sync -f //demo/osb/Test/...#=head; --> this is updating the complete folder
Thanks for the help!!
One way to do this would be to use two commands:
p4 -F %change% -ztag changes -m1 -s submitted //demo/osb/Test/...
p4 sync //demo/osb/Test/...#=NNN
The first command tells you the change number of the latest submitted change. The second command syncs the files changed in that changelist.
Depending on your shell, you could perhaps combine them:
p4 sync //demo/osb/Test/...#=`p4 -F %change% -ztag changes -m1 -s submitted //demo/osb/Test/...`
(Whew! That's a mouthful!)
You have to have a fairly recent client version for the '-F %change%' syntax to work; if you're having trouble with this part of the solution, check your client version.
I thought I could use P4 sync -f #Changelist# to sync only those files in Changelist#, but it is syncing the entire directory. How can I limit the sync to only the files in Changelist#?
If you want to limit a sync to only the files in a specific changelist, you can do the following:
$> p4 sync #changelist,#changelist
E.g.
$> p4 sync #604286,#604286
To sync only the files contained in a changelist, you can use the #= syntax:
p4 sync #=12345
If I understand the question correctly - You already have a tree with some files. Now there is a new change-list and you want your tree to be updated in such a way that only files listed in this new change list are synced leaving rest of the tree intact/unaffected.
If this is the case then answer is - p4 sync #=changelist. But just to be safe first try with p4 sync -n #=changelist option.
If you try with p4 sync #changelist you will see that your whole tree is updated/deleted. Just try with
p4 sync -n #changelist | more
To sum up the other answers and add one of my own: roll 1d3 and choose from this table.
p4 sync -f #=CHANGE
p4 sync -f #CHANGE,CHANGE
p4 -F %depotFile%%depotRev% files #CHANGE,CHANGE | p4 -x - sync -f