[p4] A tool to list all files that haven't been added

[Shawn Hladky]

p4v's folder diff will do this.  So will araxis w/ the Perforce plugin.

On 6/1/06, Taylor Brown <tbrown at ncsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
> Is there a GUI tool out there (or a way to do this in the Perforce GUIs)
> that allows me to see, at a glance, the difference between my perforce
> depot and my local drive?  In particular, I need an easy way to see
> which files I have forgotten to add to Perforce.  When you all need to
> guarantee that your checkin won't miss any new files, do you just
> recursively add files that match particular wildcards? For example:
> Recursiveadd.bat *.cpp
> Recursiveadd.bat *.h
> ...
>
> This could work, but I'm still worried it could miss the oddly named new
> file.
>
> I'd love to have a tool to recommend to our devs as a best practice
> before they do their checkin.  I am guilty of performing a checkin,
> syncing to a clean branch, testing, and then adding the files I forgot.
> Although I work in my own branch, I still don't like the idea that I'm
> breaking the branch until I get all my files checked in.  I'd rather it
> be more atomic.
>
> What I _really_ want (and now I'm dreaming) is a Beyond Compare plugin
> where one side is my local file system and the other is my Perforce
> depot...Now THAT would be a tool.
>
> Many thanks for any advice or assistance,
>
>    Taylor
>
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