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Reputation: 19333

Update have list to reflect local working copy

I deleted a large folder I no longer need from my local workspace, i.e. //binary_blobs/.... Now Perforce (command line) is complaining about the missing files, i.e.:

test.raw - submit change default to delete //binary_blobs/test.raw#1

My goal is to tell the remote server that I've locally deleted the files, and that the server/depot copy should be left alone. Essentially, I want to update the "have list" so that it knows I no longer possess this 200GB folder of binary data. I ran p4 flush //binary_blobs/..., hoping it would resolve the issue, but nope: p4 is still locally tracking these files.

So, I decide I'll just tell it to sync this folder at #0 to remove the local copies of the files via p4 sync -f //binary_blobs/...#0, but this fails too due to:

//binary_blobs/test.raw#1 is opened for delete and can't be deleted

Argh! Looks like I have to revert my changes:

p4 revert //binary_blobs/...

Now it's RE-SYNCING all the data over the network again, which will takes days.

Question

Can I tell Perforce, via the command line, to just update the "have list" based on what I locally possess, without re-pulling the entire depot from the remote server?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 212

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 19333

Finally figured it out. First, I revert while keeping the workspace files as-is:

p4 revert -k //binary_blobs/...

Now I can update to revision #0:

p4 sync -f //binary_blobs/...#0

Saved me from having to manually re-create my workspace.

Upvotes: 1

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