Perforce Tip: how to apply my default change to the release branch

Create the patch,

p4 diff -du -db main-branch/... > ~/mywork.patch

Go to the work directory of release branch.

cd dir-release-branch/

`p4 edit' the files I want to patch under release branch. Please note,

• `lsdiff' is from the package `patchutils'.
• `nosl' will strip the slashes. It's written by me.

cat ~/mywork.patch|lsdiff|nosl 5|p4 -x - edit

Patch the files and DONE!

patch -p5 < ~/mywork.patch

Here is the source code of nosl. I put it in my .bashrc

function nosl(){
  if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Usage: echo /hello/world|nosl num"
    echo "strip num leading slashes"
  else
    perl -pe "/$n=$1;while(/$n>0){ /$_=~ s/[^//]*//+//;/$n--; }"
  fi
}

BTW, you could save all the trouble of Perforce by switching to Git .