I was duplicating a depot into its new home, that had a slightly different structure.
I duplicated the folder by doing:
p4 duplicate //OldDepot/OldStream/Folder/Folder/... //NewDepot/ProjectStream/...
This worked fine, but I had a .p4ignore file that was outside the original folder, and I wanted to duplicate it inside the new folder
I did something like:
p4 duplicate //OldDepot/OldStream/Folder/.p4ignore //NewDepot/ProjectStream
The messaged suggested that this was a success. However, after refreshing the depot in p4admin, the file was not visible. I thought nothing of it, and just assumed it failed completely and went on with my life.
I started to add the file manually
p4 add //NewDepot/ProjectStream/.p4ignore -c 50 -d "Adding P4Ignore"
which was a success, but when I went to submit, there was an error:
p4 submit -c 50
Cannot add file '//NewDepot/ProjectStream/.p4ignore', filename collides with an existing file //NewDepot/ProjectStream
Neither the depot view in P4V, nor the depot view in P4Admin show any such file.
I have tried:
Submitting with P4V and the command line
Deleting the local file of .p4ignore and trying again
Obliterating the stream
Deleting, and recreating the stream (with the option selected to delete stream history)
It feels like perhaps there is a database error with the file/folder in question, but I don't know enough about how to go about fixing it.
I fixed this issue. While I ran obliterate on the stream in P4Admin, the stream folder was not deleted. After running obliterate specifically on the folder through the command line, the issue was resolved. I don't believe I could obliterate the folder in P4Admin, only the files within