begin quoting David Brown as of Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:40:48PM -0800: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:07:51PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > > >Matt can help me with this, but since p4 is a "branch on checkout" model, > >it really isn't that hard to create a new branch. You simply integrate > >your changed file to the new branch, which creates it and retains history. > > P4 doesn't exactly have branches. It allows you to 'integrate' changes > into a different tree in the repo, and remembers the association between > them. The integration has to be done as its own discrete step. > > I think it would be better to describe it as: P4 doesn't have branches, but > it can track merges between trees which can be used to simulate some of > the behavior of branches.
What behavior do you believe is missing? -- Why can't the version-control repository detect file renames transparently? Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
