How to view Shelved P4 Changes?

perforce shelve
Mike picture Mike · Oct 13, 2011 · Viewed 73.1k times · Source

One of our team member (located in different region) has shelved changes in P4 with changelist 1234.

Now, if I want to see what files are modified snf what are the changes, how can I do this?

What is the P4 command that I should use to see the changes made by our team member?

Answer

jhwist picture jhwist · Oct 13, 2011

p4 describe -S 1234 should to the trick, see the documentation on describe.

To see the file content you would unshelve the files into your workspace (assuming you have a workspace for the same project your colleague is working on).

Create a new (empty) changelist with p4 change (results in e.g. 2345), then use p4 unshelve (docu) to get the modified files to your workspace:

p4 unshelve -s 1234 -c 2345

If you don't want the modified files in your workspace any longer, you can p4 revert -c 2345 them.

Related questions

How to delete a workspace in Perforce (using p4v)?

I'm new to Perforce and have created a few workspaces as exercises for getting familiar with it. Now I would like to delete some of the workspaces. I just want to get rid of the workspaces so that they do …

Read More
What is the difference between "Rollback..." and "Back Out Submitted Changelist #####" in Perforce P4V

I want to reverse the changes from one of my checkins. In the right-click context menu of the particular changelist, there are these two options: Rollback... Back Out Submitted Changelist What is the difference between these two? In what situations …

Read More
GIT vs. Perforce- Two VCS will enter... one will leave

So I'm in the process of getting GIT sold at work. First thing I need is to convince everyone that GIT is better at what they're already used to doing. We currently use Perforce. Anybody else go through a similar …

Read More