Perforce streams; child streams and reuse workspace, no files visible

Question

I am setting up a very basic stream architecture, whereby I have a mainline stream and then a development stream beneath that. I want to reuse my workspace so I can move between the two, but for some reason my child stream doesn't have any files in it. I thought that the child stream automatically inherited the paths, and all I have in my paths is the most basic 'share ...'

Wth stupid mistake am I making??

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65943813/perforce-streams-child-streams-and-reuse-workspace-no-files-visible

Answer 1

If all the files are share ..., you need to populate them from the parent before they appear in the child:

p4 populate -r -S //stream/your_dev_stream

Note that the p4 switch command (which I think is normally only available on "local" servers but you can flip a server configurable to allow it on shared servers) does this automatically. Use p4 switch -c your_dev_stream to automatically create your_dev_stream as a child stream of your current stream within the same stream depot, populate it from the parent stream, and switch your workspace to it (shelving any pending work first).