[p4] Re: What is the effect of changing a user ID? - Jack Tan - com.perforce.perforce-user

11 messages in com.perforce.perforce-user[p4] Re: What is the effect of changi...

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Rick Cameron	05 Mar 2004 15:06
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Gary Sanders	05 Mar 2004 17:11
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Jack Tan	06 Mar 2004 05:37
Rick Cameron	08 Mar 2004 09:18

Subject:	[p4] Re: What is the effect of changing a user ID?
From:	Jack Tan (jack...@yahoo.com)
Date:	03/06/2004 05:37:03 AM
List:	com.perforce.perforce-user

It is also possible to use "p4 change -f" to change the user. Use "p4 changes" to find all of the changes "by olduser@", then use "p4 change -f" and sed to modify the changelist to read "User: newuser".

Jack

--- steve at vance.com wrote:

As for the connection to the previous ID, only checkpoint surgery

will make it so that past operations appear as if they were from the same user.

Otherwise it will look as if it was a different user. As always, work with support when doing checkpoint surgery.

Steve

Tetlow, Gordon writes:

Pretty much, deleting/rename a user doesn't affect any of the existing metadata AFAIK.

-gordon

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From: Rick Cameron [mailto:Rick.Cameron at businessobjects.com] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:16 PM To: Tetlow, Gordon; Rick Cameron; perforce-user at perforce.com Subject: RE: [p4] What is the effect of changing a user ID?

Hi, Gordon

I take it from your answer that, after changing her ID, all changelists and other objects that referred to her old ID will still do so, and a search using the new ID will not find those changes.

Thanks

- rick

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From: Tetlow, Gordon [mailto:gtetlow at soe.sony.com] Sent: March 5, 2004 16:10 To: Rick Cameron; perforce-user at perforce.com Subject: RE: [p4] What is the effect of changing a user ID?

Depending on your tolerance, you have basically 2 options.

1) You could just rename her and deal with the fallout.

2) You could attempt a deep rename by basically running a checkpoint through sed. This can be problematic if she has a name that might be found in a file name.

-gordon

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From: perforce-user-admin at perforce.com [mailto:perforce-user-admin at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Rick Cameron Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:07 PM To: perforce-user at perforce.com Subject: [p4] What is the effect of changing a user ID?

Hi, all

(I sent this message earlier, but it bounced because we recently changed our email domain.)

Our IT department is changing the logon ID of one of our Perforce users, and they want us to change her Perforce ID as well.

If I change her Perforce ID, how will this affect existing changelists? If I search for checkins using the new ID, will it find ones made using the old ID?

Thanks

- rick

PS - My apologies if this is an FAQ; I wasn't able to find any mention of it on the Perforce website.

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