[p4] Splitting a Depot - Chuck Karish - com.perforce.perforce-user

9 messages in com.perforce.perforce-user[p4] Splitting a Depot

From	Sent On	Attachments
David Ferguson	01 Dec 2003 17:12
Stephen Vance	01 Dec 2003 17:46
Paul Goffin	02 Dec 2003 01:02
Russell C. Jackson	02 Dec 2003 07:54
Paul Goffin	02 Dec 2003 08:01
Russell C. Jackson	02 Dec 2003 09:05
David Ferguson	02 Dec 2003 14:23
Chuck Karish	03 Dec 2003 08:25
Paul Goffin	03 Dec 2003 08:54

Subject:	[p4] Splitting a Depot
From:	Chuck Karish (kar...@well.com)
Date:	12/03/2003 08:25:32 AM
List:	com.perforce.perforce-user

If it doesn't fail, how does it store branched files if they're only present under their new names after the obliterate? By preserving metadata for files that aren't in the depot?

Paul Goffin wrote:

The 2003.1 server _doesn't_ fail when it can't find the files to copy.

It may be easier to copy the whole depot though. I have done this before, and I found that obliterate tries to copy in the depot files to a branch when you obliterate the main tree, and when it can't find those files to copy, it fails.