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Jim
Jim

Reputation: 701

Unshelve to a new changelist from command line

With the perforce GUI, it's possible to unshelve files from a pending changelist into a new changelist. I noticed in the log that the GUI program accomplishes this by first creating a new empty changelist and then unshelving into that new changelist.

How would one do this from a batch script? I have a list of shelved changelists and I would like to unshelve each of them into new pending changelists.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2417

Answers (4)

Swoogan
Swoogan

Reputation: 5558

Here is a PowerShell cmdlet to create a new numbered changelist:

function New-Changelist {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    param (
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false)]
        [string]$Message
    )
    process {
        $cl = p4 --field "Description=$Message" --field "Files=" change -o | 
            p4 change -i | 
            select-string "\b(\d+)" | 
            ForEach-Object {$_.matches[0].value}

        Write-Output $cl
    }
}

It outputs the changelist number, so you can easily add that to the unshelve command:

$cl = New-Changelist -Message "Changelist for unshelving"
p4 unshelve -s 99999 -c $cl

Upvotes: 0

bingles
bingles

Reputation: 12223

Here's a bash function version:

# Takes shelved changeset # as single argument and unshelves to a new changeset
p4unshelve() {
    p4 change -i <<< "Change:new"$'\n'"Description:Unshelve $1" | awk '{ print $2 }' | p4 unshelve -s $1 -c $(cat)
}

Usage

p4unshelve 43245

This will not work as-is in a .bat file but could be used if you are using some form of Bash and could probably be modified to it's .bat counterpart.

Upvotes: 2

Jim
Jim

Reputation: 701

It's not pretty but if you have a shelved changelist number that you want to unshelve into a new changelist you can run the following:

 (echo Change:  new && echo Description:    test) | p4 change -i | for /f "tokens=2" %i IN ('more') DO p4 unshelve -s 99999 -c %i

If you know of a cleaner solution, please post it.

Upvotes: -1

Mike O&#39;Connor
Mike O&#39;Connor

Reputation: 3813

You can use the changes command with the -s shelved option to retrieve a list of all your shelved changes.

If you create a new changelist for each shelved change, the -c <changelist> option of the unshelve command allows you to specify the destination changelist.

Upvotes: 0

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