[p4] Refactoring and Perforce

[Shenon, Amanda]

Is there another tool that has 'move' behavior you prefer?  I've received a number of responses from people doubting that any tools handle this and refactoring in general better than Perforce.  One person said he believes ClearCase handles merged history better but that was the only thing he thought it did better than Perforce.

Our company also looked at StarTeam but in my opinion there is a much bigger list of problems with that product - no atomic commits being at the top of it.  I don't know that refactoring specifically was looked at with StarTeam but given that they maintain history in more than one place I can imagine it will have it's own set of issues.


Any suggestions?


Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: JEREMY OVERESCH [mailto:JOVERE at millerwelds.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:51 AM
To: karish at well.com
Cc: Shenon, Amanda; perforce-user at perforce.com; Melissa Kacher
Subject: Re: [p4] Refactoring and Perforce


That's great for single files, but it's still completely useless when I want to compare changelists.  The whole idea of dragging and dropping changelists for comparison becomes useless after a "move".  I can't see an entire directory of files that have changed primarily because, as Jeff Smith stated, it doesn't see directories as an entity.  Folder diffs are not possible.  How about the very useful Time-lapse view?  That's impossible to use after the "move" as well.  It only shows the file changes in that specific directory.  As far as it knows, those other changes don't exist.

Jeremy

>>> chuck.karish at gmail.com 7/21/2005 10:18 AM >>>
On 7/21/05, JEREMY OVERESCH <JOVERE at millerwelds.com> wrote:
> Here's why I think Perforce's "move" is annoying.  Say I decide that I don't like where I put a project, so I move it to another location on the depot and add a changelist or two afterward.  Now, I want to compare my latest change to something I did about 6 changelists ago, which is in the original location.  With Perforce, there is no easy way to do this. 

- From File/Preferences/General, select 'Enable diff2 on file-to-file
drag and drop'
- Right-click on the file's icon
- Select 'Revision History'
- Expand the list of revisions for the previous file location you're
interested in
- Drag and drop the previous revision onto the current one

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