AW: [p4] Is there a way to have individual comments in a changelist?

[Karl Philipp]

Hi Rita,

> Has anyone come up with a way to get individual comments per file in a
> changelist?

I've no solution but an idea.

I describe this idea for further discussion in this mailinglist,
because I am a newbie using Perforce (expierence of 5 weeks).
Perhaps I can learn a little by other advanced Perforce users
 :-)

My idea is as follows:

You can use a pre-submit trigger that

   i) analyzes which files belongs to the changelist

  ii) requests for a special comment for each such file

 iii) stores the requested information in the description field
      of the changelist form in a special format, for instance
      in xml syntax.
      The special format has the advantage, that such changelists
      can be parsed for certain comments with appropriate scripts
      and can be displayed appropriately.

But I don't know whether it is still possible to edit the change
form with a pre-submit trigger.
And what will happen, if the trigger has finished, the change
form is opend for editing by the user and the user drop a file
from the changelist?
In this case the corresponding comment must be dropped from the
description field.

A possible solution is, that a daemon runs, which checks out the
submitted changelists of the last 12 hours (or similiar) and drops
the superfluous file comments. In this case the daemon needs
Perforce Admin privileges.

The changes are that is no good solution, but a workaround.

I hope, that the perforce team creates the facility of post
submit triggers in the future.

so long

 Karl

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