6. Diff, Merge, and Change Palette : The Change Palette Tool

The Change Palette Tool
The Change Palette is a tool for propagating changes 'outside the lines' of a depot's stream hierarchy. You use it to promote one or more versions from a dynamic stream to a stream other than its parent stream. In some cases, a merge operation is required before you can propagate changes between streams; the Change Palette helps you to manage the Merge and subsequent Promote commands. You can use Patch instead of Merge, in order to send just some -- not all -- of the changes that a version contains.
You can also use the Change Palette to send changes from a dynamic stream to a workspace. This can be accomplished with a simple checkout operation, or with a more complex merge or patch operation.
You cannot use the Change Palette to promote versions from your workspace to an arbitrary stream. The only destination for versions in a workspace is the workspace’s backing stream, via the Promote command. (But you can reparent a workspace to provide a new destination for promoted versions.)

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