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

Question

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

Perforce has a much easier way of accomplishing this:

1. Shelve your changelist on branchA (note the changelist #, we'll call it NUM for reference here)

2. Create a branch mapping between branchA and branchB (we'll call it A_to_B)

3. Run the following command:

   p4 unshelve -s NUM -b A_to_B
   

Answer 2

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.