[p4] Preserving checkin comments from feature branches.

[steve at vance.com]

That's not true.  It shows the comments for the history of 
the revision on the "from" end of the integration in 
addition to the comments from the integration changelist 
itself.  The integration changelist is part of the straight 
line history of the re-integrated change.  The "-i" flag 
would add no value if that is all that was displayed by its 
inclusion.

Stephen Vance

> Nope - doesn't do it.  All that will do is show the 
comments for the 
>  >integration< changelists..
> He's wanting to see the comments for the changelists of 
the edits from 
> those other branches.
> 
> Stephen Vance wrote:
> 
> > The comments are still in Perforce.  You just need to 
add the -i flag 
> > to the filelog command to see them.  That will cause 
the command to 
> > follow integration links, as well.
> >
> > At 11:50 AM 8/5/2002 -0700, Novikoff, Eric wrote:
> >
> >> We have begun using feature branches to help decouple 
multiple
> >> slightly-related feature development efforts.  When 
the feature is 
> >> merged
> >> back to mainline periodically, we do the merge as a 
single 
> >> changelist, which
> >> loses all the individual checkin comments made by 
developers working 
> >> in the
> >> branch.  Is there another way to do this that 
preserves the comments in
> >> mainline?  Is it easy?
> >> -eric
> >
> 
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