Re: [p4] Merging one changelist into multiple locations

Posted on behalf of forum user 'Sambwise'.



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p4rfong, on 2018/04/26 18:27:21 UTC, said:
>    You can use "ditto" mappings where a file is mapped to multiple locations.  So one location would be actual and the others would be linked to the original location.
>   See
>      https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4guide/index.html#P4Guide/configuration.workspace_view.one-to-many.html?Highlight=mappings
>   
>   Major new functionality in 2016.1
>   #1357095 (Bug #5897) * **
>   Ditto (&) mappings are now supported in client views.
>   These allow a client to map files from the depot into multiple
>   locations in the workspace in a one-to-many fashion.
>   Files mapped with this flag are read-only, and may not be open by
>   'p4 edit', etc. The same files may also be normally mapped, allowing
>   a single copy of the file in the workspace to be openable.
>   Each sync'ed copy of the same file has it's own have record, and so
>   can be sync'ed to a different revision from the other copies of the
>   same file. To sync a specific copy of a file, you must specify the
>   path in client syntax.
>   Existing clients will be able to sync files mapped with ditto
>   mappings. In order for 'p4 fstat' to show details about ditto mapped
>   files, p4 must either be updated or the '-zexpandAndmaps' global
>   flag must be provided.
>     
Last I checked those don't work in branch views (although I might be out of
date)...



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