On 16 Jan 2014, at 14:08, Pete Wyckoff <pw@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > damien@xxxxxx wrote on Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:56 +0100: >> p4 fstat //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h@59702 >> ... depotFile //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h >> ... headAction edit >> ... headType symlink >> ... headTime 1237906419 >> ... headRev 2 >> ... headChange 59702 >> ... headModTime 1231329423 >> >> p4 print -q //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#2 | od -c >> 0000000 >> >> p4 print //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#1 >> //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#1 - add change 59574 (text) >> p4 print //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#2 >> //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#2 - edit change 59702 (symlink) > > That's interesting. When I do the equivalent "p4 print" commands > it shows something like this. > > arf-git-test$ p4 fstat //depot/bn.h > ... depotFile //depot/bn.h > ... clientFile /dev/shm/trash directory.t9802-git-p4-filetype/cli/bn.h > ... isMapped > ... headAction edit > ... headType symlink > ... headTime 1389876870 > ... headRev 2 > ... headChange 8 > ... headModTime 1389876870 > ... haveRev 2 > > arf-git-test$ p4 print //depot/bn.h#1 > //depot/bn.h#1 - add change 7 (text) > file-text > > arf-git-test$ p4 print //depot/bn.h#2 > //depot/bn.h#2 - edit change 8 (symlink) > /elsewhere/bn.h > > I don't know how you manage to get a symlink with an empty > destination like that. > > I'll work on a way to hack around this failure. In the mean time, > if you're game, it might be fun to see what p4 does with such a > repository. You could make a client for just that little subdir, > check out at 59702 and see what is there: > > mkdir testmess > cd testmess > cat <<EOF | p4 client -i > Client: testmess > Description: testmess > Root: $(pwd) > View: //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/... //testmess/... > EOF > > then take a look at how p4 represents the "empty" symlink > in the filesystem: > > p4 sync @59702 > ls -la bn.h I’ve tried exactly your commands, and I’ve got an empty folder.. {14:38}~/p4/testmess ➭ p4 sync @59702 //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/aes.h#2 - refreshing /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/aes.h //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/asn1.h#2 - refreshing /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/asn1.h //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/asn1_mac.h#2 - refreshing /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/asn1_mac.h //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/asn1t.h#2 - refreshing /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/asn1t.h //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bio.h#2 - refreshing /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/bio.h //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/blowfish.h#2 - refreshing /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/blowfish.h //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#2 - refreshing /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/bn.h //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/buffer.h#2 - refreshing /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/buffer.h […] {14:39}~/p4/testmess ➭ ls -la total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 dgerard dgerard 4096 janv. 16 14:37 . drwxr-xr-x 4 dgerard dgerard 4096 janv. 16 14:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 dgerard dgerard 93 janv. 16 14:37 .perforce Then I tried to sync the previous changeset, which is ok : {14:44}~/p4/testmess ➭ p4 sync -f @59701 //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/aes.h#1 - updating /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/aes.h […] {14:44}~/p4/testmess ➭ l total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 dgerard dgerard 0 janv. 16 14:44 aes.h -r--r--r-- 1 dgerard dgerard 0 janv. 16 14:44 asn1.h -r--r--r-- 1 dgerard dgerard 0 janv. 16 14:44 asn1_mac.h -r--r--r-- 1 dgerard dgerard 0 janv. 16 14:44 asn1t.h -r--r--r-- 1 dgerard dgerard 0 janv. 16 14:44 bio.h -r--r--r-- 1 dgerard dgerard 0 janv. 16 14:44 blowfish.h -r--r--r-- 1 dgerard dgerard 0 janv. 16 14:44 bn.h -r--r--r-- 1 dgerard dgerard 0 janv. 16 14:44 buffer.h […] However, when trying to sync to the appropriate changeset : {14:44}~/p4/testmess ➭ p4 sync -f @59702 //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/aes.h#2 - updating /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/aes.h rename: /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/aes.h: No such file or directory //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/asn1.h#2 - updating /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/asn1.h rename: /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/asn1.h: No such file or directory //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/asn1_mac.h#2 - updating /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/asn1_mac.h rename: /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/asn1_mac.h: No such file or directory //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/asn1t.h#2 - updating /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/asn1t.h rename: /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/asn1t.h: No such file or directory //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bio.h#2 - updating /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/bio.h rename: /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/bio.h: No such file or directory //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/blowfish.h#2 - updating /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/blowfish.h rename: /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/blowfish.h: No such file or directory //depot/openssl/0.9.8j/openssl/include/openssl/bn.h#2 - updating /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/bn.h rename: /home/dgerard/p4/testmess/bn.h: No such file or directory And the folder remains untouched. 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