Labelling an Old Release

Published by Marco on in Perforce

With Perforce, it’s not the end of the world if you forget to label a release before checking in more changes. As long as you know the last changelist number that belonged to the release, you can always make the label anyway. In fact, you can follow the instructions for Creating a Label, but alter them in the following way:

  1. Once you have the final dialog open (After step 4), do not click Ok immediately.
  2. Instead, click the radio button at the top for Add/Replace only the following files.
  3. Click the Other radio button below, select Changelist from the drop-down and enter the number. Files will be added to the label with the revision they had at the time that changelist was submitted.
  4. Click Ok to commit changes.