How to submit nib files to perforce that were previously added?

Question

Recently I added a .bundle file that had several .nib files in it to perforce. I'm new to using p4 on a mac so I didn't think much of it and it submitted just fine.

I now tried to check out and edit the bundle (basically just replace the previous version with a new one) and when I try to check it in I get the error -

read: /devdir/Resources.bundle/CreateAccount.nib: Is a directory

Submit aborted -- fix problems then use 'p4 submit -c 82488'. Some file(s) could not be transferred from client.

I don't understand why it let me add it in the first place if this is the case but that aside I'm not sure what to do about it now. The files are just sitting in this limbo state in a pending change list.

Is there any way to force submit them or delete them (I could just readd the whole bundle in that case)? Or any other suggestions..

Thanks

Answer 1

In OS X, .nib and .bundle "files" are both actually directories with extensions in their names. As such, in Perforce, you will need to add/edit the contents, not the items themselves.

For example:

p4 reconcile /devdir/Resources.bundle/CreateAccount.nib/...

or

p4 edit /devdir/Resrources.bundle/CreateAccount.nib/...
p4 submit /devdir/Resrources.bundle/CreateAccount.nib/...

If you're editing inside of Xcode, or an external editor (or getting updated files from somebody else), I'd suggest using p4 reconcile to let Perforce determine which of the contents need to be updated.

Generally, in OS X and iOS development this isn't necessary since you would not have .nib files these days (.xib files, which are XML-based are the source to .nib files in modern Xcode development). However, if you get code from a third party, they often have already-compiled resources.