Create or edit a changelist specification
When files are opened for edit with p4 add, p4 delete, p4 edit, or p4 integrate, the files are listed in a changelist. Edits to the files are kept in the local client workspace until the changelist is sent to the depot with p4 submit. By default, files are opened within the default changelist, but multiple changelists can be created and edited with the p4 change command.
p4 change brings up a form for editing or viewing in the editor defined by the environment or registry variable P4EDITOR. When no arguments are provided, this command will create a new, numbered changelist. Changelist numbers are assigned in sequence, and changelists may be renumbered automatically on submission in order to keep the numeric order of submitted changelists identical to the chronological order.
p4 change changelist# can be used to edit the description of a pending changelist, and may be used to view the fields of a submitted changelist.
The default changelist will be assigned a number if p4 submit of the changelist fails. The changelist must be referred to by number from that point forward.
| Field Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change: | Read-only | Contains the change number if editing an existing changelist, or new if creating a new changelist. |
| Client: | Read-only | Name of current client workspace. |
| User: | Read-only | Name of current Perforce user. |
| Status: | Read-only value | pending, submitted, or new. Not editable by the user. The status is new when the changelist is created; pending when its been created but has not yet been submitted to the depot with p4 submit, and submitted when its contents have been stored in the depot with p4 submit. |
| Description: | Writable | Textual description of changelist. This value must be changed before submission, and cannot be changed after submission except by the Perforce superuser. |
| Jobs: | List | A list of jobs that are fixed by this changelist. The list of jobs that appears when the form is first displayed is controlled by the p4 user form's JobView setting. Jobs may be deleted from or added to this list. |
| Files: | List | List of files being submitted in this changelist. Files may be deleted from this list, and files that are found in the default changelist can be added. |
| -d | Delete the changelist. This is usually allowed only with pending changelists that contain no files, but the superuser can delete changelists under other circumstances with the addition of the -f flag. |
| -f | Allows the description of a submitted changelist to be edited. Available only to Perforce superusers. |
| -f -d | Delete a submitted changelist. Only the superuser can use this command, and the changelist must have had all its files removed from the system with p4 obliterate. |
| -o | Write a changelist description to standard output. |
| -i | Read a changelist description from standard input. Input must be in the same format as that used by the p4 change form. |
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Can File Arg Use Revision Specifier? |
Can File Arg Use Revision Range? |
Minimal Access Level Required |
|---|---|---|
| <NA> | <NA> | open |
| To submit a changelist to the depot | p4 submit |
| To move a file from one changelist to another | p4 reopen |
| To remove a file from all pending changelists | p4 revert |
| To list changelists meeting particular criteria | p4 changes |
| To list opened files | p4 opened |
| To list fixes linked to particular changelists | p4 fixes |
| To link a job to a a particular changelist | p4 fix |
| To remove a job from a particular changelist | p4 fix -d |
| To list all the files listed in a changelist | p4 opened -c changelist# |