title: Perforce: How can I delete a changelist that p4v refuses to delete?
body: <p>After a while of working with perforce I was left with a lot of still open change lists.
  To clean up I want to get rid of a subset of them.
  So here is what makes this complicate:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>For a subset of the changes the host of the client has changed.</li>
  <li>Some changes contain shelved files.</li>
  <li>Files from the change list may be deleted or moved.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>When one or more of above points are true for a change list, <code>p4v</code> (the visual client) will not allow you to delete the change list.</p>
  
  <p>So what is an effective way of <strong>deleting these change lists</strong>?</p>