What is the difference between merge any
and merge down
in Perforce P4V?. when I try to create a stream in Perforce I am seeing these two options in Advanced settings/options.
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Bryan Pendleton
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The "merge any" option allows a merge operation to be done in either direction (up or down), whereas the default "merge down" requires that you only merge down (and must copy up instead of merging up).
https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/user/relnotes.txt:
#963443 (Bug #65298, #74627) **
The new 'mergeany' stream option allows flow rules for 'p4 merge'
to be ignored for a particular stream. The default option of
'mergedown' preserves the previously existing flow rules. Streams
created by 'p4 switch' on a personal server use 'mergeany'.

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