Perforce: How do I p4 integrate a local uncommited changelist?

Question

So here's my scenario:

I have two projects projectA and projectB. A branchspec auto-integrates projectA to projectB. Now, I have a changelist which modifies some files in projectA -- I have not committed/submitted this changelist yet.

I'd like this changelist to go into projectB only.

Doing a p4 integrate -b branchspec -c changelistNumber

shows

"All revision(s) are integrated."

How can I integrate an uncommitted changelist?

Answer 1

Hack-ish solution:

1. Check out the files in project B
2. Manually copy files from project A to project B (they're not write-protected due to step 1)
3. Shelve changelist in project A
4. Submit to B
5. Integrate files from B to A and resolve
6. Unshelve files from step 3. Resolve as needed accepting yours.
7. Submit to A when ready

Another approach is to create a separate branch where you do your work and then integ to A or B as needed.

The general idea is that Perforce works in terms of submitted or shelved changelists. The idea of integrating an non-committed changelist seems to go against Perforce's natural grain which makes these workarounds cumbersome.

Answer 2

You can use P4_Shelve to move the changes to a new branch which you could then integrate to projectB.