Joe Cotellese writes: ;->It seems that when you branch and try to view the history of the branched
file, ;->it doesn't show you the history prior to the branch, I understand why and it ;->makes sense however there are cases where I need this information. Putting
it ;->into $Log made the most sense to me.

Um - actually, $Log$ (if they ever do it, gods forbid) should track filelog.

What you really want is more information from filelog. Unfortunately, that isn't trivial, because you then have multiple history lists feeding the file.

;->There probably is a way to do this via scripting and the command-line but a
lot ;->of my users are Windows GUI guys that don't do the command-line (at least not ;->without a lot of wailing and teeth gnashing).

What I do for people like that is put cgi scripts on a web server running on the perforce server. It works fairly well.

In this case, it may be ideal. Some of the fancier web-based depot browsers can do integrated file histories - they may provide what you are looking for.

<mike