### About

**p4tar** and **p4untar** are two scripts that can pack up a changelist
and then unpack it on another machine (or the same one). Uses for
"tarring" a changelist include:

-   Temporarily "shelving" work in progress so that you can retest
    against clean depot copies of your files.
-   Moving work in progress from one client machine to another.
-   Sending work in progress to another user for review without first
    submitting it to the depot.

See also [P4 Shelve](P4_Shelve "wikilink"), which has similar
applications but submits the changelist to the depot (in a new branch)
rather than creating a client-side tarfile.

### Usage

**p4tar \[-c \#\] \[-q\] \[-z\] archive\_name**

:   -c = changelist \#
:   -q = quiet, don't print summary
:   -z = compress
:   -i = convert integrates and branches to edits (UNSAFE)

**p4untar \[-debug\] \[-revert\] \[-z\] archive\_name**

:   -revert = completely revert all changes in this archive (this will
    DELETE added files)
:   -c \# = changelist
:   -ld = convert to dos style line-ends
:   -lu = convert to unix style line-ends
:   -ln = do not do any line-end conversions
:   -e = do not extract files, just do edits and adds
:   -z = uncompress
:   -d = do not extract files with identical contents
:   -diff = diff files in archive against client, extract nothing
:   -unpack = just extract all files into p4tar\_unpack/
:   -q = quiet - emit no output
:   -nopipe = disable the use of perl's input pipe

### Example

`C:\test\depot\sam>p4 diff`\
`==== //depot/sam/bar#2 - c:\test\depot\sam\bar ====`\
`3a4`\
`> This is an edit I'm tarring up.`\
\
`C:\test\depot\sam>perl p4tar.pl -c default test_tar`\
`edited:  1   added: 1   deleted: 0   skipped: 0`\
\
`C:\test\depot\sam>p4 revert ...`\
`//depot/sam/bar#2 - was edit, reverted`\
`//depot/sam/foo#4 - was add, reverted `\
\
`C:\test\depot\sam>perl p4untar.pl test_tar`\
`//depot/sam/bar#2 - file(s) up-to-date.`\
`//depot/sam/bar#2 - opened for edit`\
`//depot/sam/foo#5 - opened for add`\
`edited: 1         added: 1        deleted: 0   skipped: 0`\
\
`C:\test\depot\sam>p4 diff`\
`==== //depot/sam/bar#2 - c:\test\depot\sam\bar ====`\
`3a4`\
`> This is an edit I'm tarring up.`

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