Re: [p4] P4 sync order of operations

Posted on behalf of forum user 'Matt Janulewicz'.

It's my understanding (and experience) that by default p4 sync processes
arguments in order.

Unless you use the '-L' switch, which builds a table as a whole and
syncs it all at once, in which case will get an alphabetical sync order.

As an experiment you can use explicit depot paths and revisions for a couple
files and note the difference between:

> p4 sync -n -L file1#1 file2#2
> p4 sync -n file1#1 file2#2

Then do the same with the order of arguments reversed so you can see how
'-L' sorts alphabetically.

You could also 'p4 sync' files individually.

Another tact might be to put the files in the proper order in a separate text
file and pass that in to a single p4 call:

> p4 sync -x file list -b 1 sync

'-b 1' means 'batch size 1', process one line at a time. It
still essentially does a separate 'p4 sync' for each file/line, but you
can shorthand it with a single command this way.

A curios sort might also ask why this would be necessary, and if there perhaps
is a different way to accomplish what you're trying to do.  :)



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