28 messages in com.perforce.perforce-user[p4] perforce and patch: a tip and tw...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 11:50 | |
| Rick Macdonald | 02 Mar 2001 12:45 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 12:53 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 13:21 | |
| John D. Mitchell | 02 Mar 2001 13:23 | |
| Rick Macdonald | 02 Mar 2001 13:31 | |
| Todd Short | 02 Mar 2001 13:35 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 13:59 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 14:04 | |
| Dave Lewis | 02 Mar 2001 14:04 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 14:08 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 14:12 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 14:37 | |
| Lee Marzke | 02 Mar 2001 14:42 | |
| Gordon Broom | 02 Mar 2001 14:46 | |
| Rick Macdonald | 02 Mar 2001 15:01 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 15:03 | |
| Rick Macdonald | 02 Mar 2001 15:07 | |
| Rick Macdonald | 02 Mar 2001 15:11 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 15:16 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 15:23 | |
| Rick Macdonald | 02 Mar 2001 15:23 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 15:28 | |
| Rick Macdonald | 02 Mar 2001 15:33 | |
| Dan Kegel | 02 Mar 2001 15:37 | |
| Gordon Broom | 02 Mar 2001 16:17 | |
| John D. Mitchell | 02 Mar 2001 16:41 | |
| Steve Bennett | 05 Mar 2001 07:47 |
| Subject: | [p4] perforce and patch: a tip and two enhancement requests |
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| From: | Dan Kegel (da...@alumni.caltech.edu) |
| Date: | 03/02/2001 11:50:54 AM |
| List: | com.perforce.perforce-user |
I happily generate patches from perforce diff with the two-step process p4 diff -du > my.diff p4d2p < my.diff > my.patch where p4d2p is a script written by Gurusamy Sarathy; you can download it at http://www.kegel.com/p4d2p.pl
This works fine except for files with 'p4 add' pending; p4 diff doesn't show anything for those files :-(
It'd be nice if 'p4 diff' were enhanced to add a '--patch' option which generated real patches INCLUDING pending 'p4 add's. That's unlikely to happen anytime soon, since perforce isn't open source. Sigh.
Second problem working with patch: when I've put together what I think are a good set of changes, and I want to try them out on a fresh source tree, I'd love to go $ mv mydepot mydepot.old $ p4 sync -f mydepot/... and then apply the patch to my copy of the depot. But alas, 'p4 sync -f' doesn't give me the contents of any files where 'p4 edit' is pending.
It'd be REAL nice if 'p4 sync' were enhanced to add a '--all' option to get even the opened files. That's unlikely to happen anytime soon, since perforce isn't open source. Sigh.
- Dan