How to detach from stream?

Question

I'm using Perforce 2015.2. I attached my workspace to a Perforce stream with a command similar to:

p4 client -s -S //Product/Main

Now I'd like to detach the workspace from the stream. I tried:

p4 client -s -S //

But got an error:

Stream '//' is not the correct format of '//depotname/string'

How can I detach from my workspace from the stream?

Answer 1

By "detach my workspace from the stream", I assume you mean that you want your workspace to stop referring to the stream's files, and instead you want to refer to some set of files in a non-stream depot.

So:

1. p4 client to bring up your client spec in your editor
2. Delete the line that reads: Stream: //Product/Main

3. Change the lines below View: that look like:

   //Product/Main/... //my-client/...

to instead read:

//depot/some/path/... //my-client/some/path/...

4. Save and close out of your editor.