[p4] Peforce History in source code

[Joan Yuen]

You could keep all your history in one branch (this essential becomes your
trunk), and create a branch every time you release a new version.  Here we
just call our trunk "latest" and this is where development for the current
release takes place.

Joan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-admin at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-admin at perforce.com]On Behalf Of Joe Cotellese
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 2:32 PM
> To: Joe Cotellese
> Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Peforce History in source code
>
>
> Yikes, I didn't mean to start such a thread.  I'll have to make
> sure I consult
> the archives before posting ;-)
>
> One of the reasons I wanted to know if this feature existed is
> because of a
> problem (feature?) I ran into in the Windows client.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> Joe C.
>
>
>   On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you
> wrote: > Hello,
> >
> > We have recently migrated from MS VSS to Perforce.  One feature
> I miss is the
> > ability to replace patterns in my code with information from
> VSS.  This feature
> > gives me the ability to put the history for a file in the
> source.  Does such a
> > mechanism exist in Perforce?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joe C.
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