Perforce Streams: Selective Copy up to Main

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We utilize streams to manage our code in Perforce. We are having issues when efforts are moved out to later releases as part of our controls requires that we have a valid/approved artifact tied to a release before we copy up to the main stream and proceed to cut the release stream.

In Perforce when you are copying code up from a development stream to the main stream is there a way to deselect change lists? When I attempt it, it appears I can deselect specific change lists, usually the last few added, but Perforce seems to not allow certain lists to be deselected, I am guessing if the file changes are included in later changes to the same file.

Is there a good way to selectively move these change sets?

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Matt On

You'll want to use the merge command instead of copy in this case to cherry pick the changes up to main. Copy takes files at a point in time and makes the target look like the source no matter what. Merge will let you pick around changes that aren't ready.