Integrating moved files in perforce

Question

Say I created a branch in perforce of our codebase. Here is the branch spec:

//depot/code/main/... //depot/code/branch/...

Then, in the branch,

Answer 1

You could script the creation of a branch spec for handling moved files using the output of p4 fstat.

Use the following as a starting point:

ROOT_PATH="//depot/books/..."
FIRST_CHANGE=91212

p4 fstat -Os -T headChange -F "headAction=move/* headChange>$FIRST_CHANGE" $ROOT_PATH|grep headChange | sort -u|while read DUMMY1 DUMMY2 change; do p4 describe $change; done|grep "moved from"|sed 's/\.\.\./\t/g; s/\#[0-9]*//g; s/ moved from//g;'

This will find all files in //depot/books/... that were moved in change 91212 or later

For us, the output of this looks like

//depot/books/bar.txt //depot/books/foo.txt

Use it for crafting a branch spec.