Perforce command line: How to view/edit unshelved files?

Question

Let's pretend that user A has a file called "Test.java" and it has: System.out.println("Hello")

Now she changes the file to System.out.println("How are you?")

Then she decides to change it to: System.out.println("I'm fine")

However, she doesn't want to submit the code yet, so she shelved both files with changelist 1234 and 5678.

Now user B wants to unshelve these changelists and test them, so he types:

p4 unshelve -s 1234

p4 unshelve -s 5678

My question is: where are these files located on user B's workspace? How can he run/modify these specific changelist?

Thank you!

Answer 1

When user B unshelves the changeset, the unshelved files will be placed in the workspace according to user B's client-spec (which specifies how depot paths are mapped to the local client). It'd be similar to if user A submitted the changeset and user B synced.

User B's versions of the files will be overwritten (unless they're already open for edit).