On 16 June 2018 at 10:58, merlo...@yahoo.fr <merlo...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > Yes Luke, my colleagues and I, we care ! Our repository is p4 (choice of the > high management, sigh...). Some of us are working natively on p4, but others > like me are working on git through git-p4. We often want to share pieces of > codes to check compilation on misc platforms/configs, and shelve/unshelve > mechanism is commonly used between nativ p4 users. > For git-p4 users we have a temporary hack to unshelve, but it often fails to > apply the whole p4 diff, and we end up finishing stuff by hand, checking > line by line, sigh... Without speaking about diffs that are accross several > local workspaces. > Hopefully it is on small shelved p4 change lists for the moment, but we > cannot deploy on a larger scale. > Please continue your hard work on unshelve stuff. > > For your last remark, the members of our team often need to work on non > synchro revisions, but still need to share via shelve/unshelve, and I am > sure we will have conflits as you describe, leading unshelve to fail. > Automatic fast import would save us the need to stop our current work, sync > with p4 and launch a 1h compilation, before we could unshelve... So yes we > need it !
OK, I'll give it a go, in my copious free time :-) Luke
