I backed a change out of one codeline, but I don't want to back it out of the codeline that's branched from it. Now, every time I integrate between the two codelines, Perforce wants to integrate the backing-out change. Is there a way to tell it not to?
I assume you've backed out the change using the method describe in Tech Note 14, where you submit a change that puts files back to their old contents. You do have to integrate this backing-out change, but you can choose to "ignore" it. Consider this scenario:
- changelist 245 was originally submitted into //depot/main.
- //depot/main was integrated into //depot/branch
- @245 was backed out of //depot/main, and the change that did that was @250.
The next time you integrate from //depot/main to //depot/branch, Perforce will want to propagate @250 -- that is, it will want to back the same change out of //depot/branch that it did out out //depot/main. Which is not what you want, in your case.
What you have to do now is integrate @250 from main to branch, using the resolve step to tell Perforce you want the the actual deltas to be ignored. Here's how:
p4 integ //depot/main/...@250,@250 //depot/branch/... p4 resolve -ay p4 submit
(March 1998)