Coming from p4 to git, I thanked the heavens for not having to use this piece of garbage anymore! File locks? Multiple changelists? God forbid that one colleague who checked out some file went on vacation, neverending fun talking to admins of the server to do something about that! Rebasing commits? Own branches? Own repos? Nope!
I miss multiple changelists so much! I very often am working on a longer feature when I also get some small bug, and it's so nice to organize that into a separate changelist.
Also, file locks are awesome if you're working with binary files (a thing that P4, unlike Git, can actually do), or even when doing a big refactoring that you know will cause conflicts with any other change. Otherwise, at least on our server, we very rarely used them (ignoring the temporary lock just as you're submitting code).
I'm not sure what you mean about rebasing. The basic P4 workflow is equivalent to `git pull --rebase`. In fact, it's pretty hard NOT to rebase in P4.
Also, why is your own branch useful actually? Nevermind your own repo? You can always just keep multiple copies of the code if you really want to.
Also, with P4 you don't have to cleanup your whole working set just to switch branch - it's just a `cd` away!
Of course, different strokes for different folks and all that.
