On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 05:25:18PM +0000, nickp at aperture.com wrote:

Actually, I wrote C4 to allow me to have a client that had all files writable, so I could change files adhoc and have C4 figure what had happened, like CVS does. It turns out that there are only a few changes to get C4 to do "make the depot look like this". I will release an updated version of C4 (version 1.1) in the next few weeks that will allow you to do something like:

p4 get - Get all files into a client (make "have" right) rm -rf ... - Remove the client cpio ... - Replace the client with another tree c4 update -ad - Do any "p4 add", "p4 edit" and "p4 delete" commands to make the depot look like the new tree. p4 submit - Submit.

This will be used to help convert the several gigabytes of RCS'd source code we have at Auspex Systems into a several hundred megabyte (hopefully) P4 depot.

--- Neil Russell caret at c-side.com