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Shaik Sabeena
Shaik Sabeena

Reputation: 31

how to sync the perforce client only with the files of a particular change list using p4 sync command

I'm trying to sync only the files modified in a particular change list to p4v.

Suppose in a perforce directory //demo/test I have 10 files out of which only 3 are modified as part of change list number 1234. I want only 3 files to be synced up. I have tried below options but it did not work.

p4 sync //demo/test...@1234;

This command says the files are updated but i don't see the files synced up.

p4 sync -f //demo/test...@1234;

This command is syncing all 10 files in the directory.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3610

Answers (1)

Bryan Pendleton
Bryan Pendleton

Reputation: 16389

Use

p4 sync //demo/test...@1234,1234

or

p4 sync //demo/test...@=1234

When running tests like these, remember that 'p4 sync' won't sync a file that you already have, which is why you found the need to run 'p4 sync -f' to force the files to be sent even though the server knows you already have them. If you want to clear the server's memory of the files that you have, you can run

p4 sync //demo/test...#none

which will remove all the (p4-managed) files matching '//demo/test...' from your workspace, and then 'p4 sync' will bring them back the next time.

Oh, and since 'test' is a directory, the pattern

//demo/test/...

is preferred to 

//demo/test...

since '//demo/test/...' matches only the files in the test directory, while '//demo/test...' will also match the files in the '//demo/test1', '//demo/test-and-set', and '//demo/testarossa' directories (if those should happen to exist).

Upvotes: 3

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