P4v too many files in changelist

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Perforce: Number of files in a submitted changelist Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 8 months ago. Active 7 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 4k times. Is there a way to count the number of files in a submitted change-list in Perforce? Improve this question. Sankalp Sankalp 2, 2 2 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges.

Is it possible using GUI too? Information Blank. Which command s can be used to list the files in a changelist? There are several commands that list files in a changelist, including describe , opened , and files. Showing the changelist description The p4 describe -s command lists the files in a changelist along with the changelist description and any linked jobs. For example:. In the following example changelist was submitted by mistake. The description of changelist shows:.

In this example changelist contains edits only -- no files were added or deleted. Also, in this scenario, you just submitted changelist -- nothing has changed in your workspace since you did the submit, and no one else submitted any subsequent changes to the files in changelist In this scenario, changelist was submitted some time ago.

Since the submit other good edits have been submitted to the same files. Backing out changelist is more complicated in this case because you have to preserve any subsequent changes to the files.

In this example changelist contained file edits only -- no files were added or deleted. When backing out an old changelist, use a workspace with no opened files. You can use p4 opened to see if there are any opened files in your current workspace. To back out changelist when subsequent changes have been made to the files you:. Click "Open Terminal". Now you can use p4 in a preconfigured console, you don't need to setup workspace and server connection. Split a big changelist into little ones Now, perhaps, you need to create a 40 changelists with files in the each one.

Then: split -l