Perforce Tip: how to apply my default change to the release branch

• Our current project uses mix platforms (WIN64/Linux64), so the file path contains backward slash \.
• My p4 CLI program is from Windows installer because Cygwin version has the slash issue.
• Windows version of p4 has no such issue under Cygwin if we only feed it relative path.

Create the patch,

p4 diff -du -db main-branch/... > ~/mywork.patch

Go to the work directory of release branch.

cd dir-release-branch/

p4 edit the files I want to patch under release branch. Please note,

• lsdiff is from the package patchutils.
• nosl will strip the backward/forward slashes. It's written by me.

cat ~/mywork.patch|lsdiff|nosl 5|p4 -x - edit

Patch the files and DONE!

patch -p5 < ~/mywork.patch

Here is the source code of nosl placed in my .bashrc,

nosl ()
{
    if [ -z "$1" ]; then
        echo "Usage: echo /hello/world|nosl num";
        echo "strip num leading slashes";
    else
        perl -pe "\$n=$1;while(\$n>0){ \$_=~ s/[^\\\\\\/]*[\\\\\\/]+//;\$n--; }";
    fi
}

BTW, you could avoid all the trouble of Perforce by switching to Git.

UPDATE: git-p4 is better solution.