In perforce, how do I remove pending changes for NEW/ADDED files not submitted?

Question

I am trying to remove a pending changelist in perforce. All the files (20 old) are new but have not be committed/submitted yet. So in p4Win, they show a RED + cross. I am failing to remove these files from the change list. How do I go about getting rid of these files?

Thanks for the answers to right-click and revert. I have tried that but it fails with the example error strings below.

Operation: user-revert
Librarian digest source/.../foo.c failed.
RCS checkout 1.715484 failed!
RCS no such revision 1.715484!
//source/.../foo.c#1 - was add, reverted

I've also tried the p4 revert command but it fails with same error(s).

Solution 1

Fixed with "revert -k" by perforce support group. They suspect it may be due to overlay values in the client workspace but have not been very specific.

Solution 2

How are you trying to remove the files?

It's been a while since I used Perforce in anger but I seem to remember that you just had to right click and revert the file.

I've just tried this and it worked OK for me (the programmer's lament!). It uses the following p4 command:

p4 revert //depot/test.txt

Where test.txt is the name of the test file.

Update

Does the new file still exist locally on your hard drive?

Does the path where the file would be in the depot still exist? ie. what's in the "..." of your path.

Solution 3

Revert files, right-click on file in change list and select revert, this will remove added files.

Comments

[ChrisF]

The final comment would seem to indicate that the revert worked, but I assume that the file is still on the changelist.

[dubnde]

Yes. The new file stil exists locally on the hard drive

[ChrisF]

I'm running out of ideas :(. Does the depot location still exist?

[ChrisF]

I was thinking of the path where it would exist - but Perforce should be able to cope with that not existing, so my question is meaningless - sorry. Is the number the same every time? I don't understand where that's come from.

[dubnde]

You mean the number "1.715484", right? Yes it is the same even for different files

[ChrisF]

I'd take this up with Perforce support. When we used it in the past their support was very good. I'm still using an old version so anything else I suggest may well be out of date.

[undeniablyrob]

Worked like a charm for me. From "p4 help revert": "The -k flag marks the file as reverted in server metadata without altering files in the client workspace."