I am using p4v to manage my source code. I have a changelist with shelved files. When I right-click on the “Shelved Files” item in p4v, it offers me two choices: “Refresh Shelved Items in Pending Changelist” and “Show Shelf in Swarm”. What I actually want is to delete the shelved files (which p4v usually offers me to do on right-click, but not in this case).

I am just interested what this “refresh” thing should do. I tried clicking it; it looks like it doesn’t do anything, and nothing appears in the log of p4 commands.

I did something, and p4v crashed. I opened it again, and now the right-click menu has additional items, including “Delete Shelved Files”, which is what I want. But I am still curious: what does this “refresh” do, and when would I want to use it?