perforce: create a local backup of current pendinglist

Asked 2009-11-12T13:40:36.653

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in perforce, i have a pending list with some changed files. now i want to revert to the base, but without loosing my changes, so i want to back them up somewhere. like saving the DIFFs of each file. at a later time, i want to restore those changes and continue my work.

is this possible? if so, how?

thanks!

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Create a branch of these files in some appropriate location
Check out the branch versions of the files you have edited
Copy the edited files over from the trunk and submit them
Revert the files on the trunk

Now you've got those "diffs" you wanted safely archived. When your ready to apply those changes later on, just integrate them back into the trunk.

This is what the Python script, that Brett mentioned, does. This is the way to do it manually without any special tools.

answered 2009-11-12T22:12:09.650

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