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# Check in files and work with changelists

To check in a file, you must submit a changelist The changes to files or stream specifications along with metadata, such as the list of changed files, their version numbers, the submitter of the changelist, and the submitter's description of the changes. A changelist is the unit of versioned work.. Whenever you mark files for add or delete, check them out, integrate To compare two sets of files and determine which changes to propagate. A typical use case is to integrate between a development branch and a release branch. (merge or copy), or schedule them for resolve The process you use to manage the differences between two revisions of a file, or two versions of a stream spec., the files are added to changelists. P4 Server changelists are lists of actions to be performed on files. The actions in the changelist are performed when you submit To send a pending changelist from the client workspace to the depot. the changelist. Pending changelists A unit of versioned work that is not submitted. A changelist is created when you check out any file. A changelist is pending until you submit or revert the change. are changelists that have yet to be submitted. Changelists are assigned unique numbers by P4 Server. In addition, a default changelist The unnumbered pending changelist that is automatically created when a file is opened for add, edit, or delete. is maintained for each client workspace Directories on your machine where you work on file revisions that are managed by P4 Server.. If submission of the default changelist fails, P4 Server assigns it a number An integer that identifies a changelist. Submitted changelist numbers are ordinal (increasing), but not necessarily consecutive. For example: 103, 105, 108, 109. A pending changelist number might be assigned a different value upon submission..

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