[p4] perforce vs. subversion

[Jeff Jensen]

As I suggested in the other email, seriously consider using multiple pending
changelists to organize your work.  After a week or two of doing so, it
becomes natural and you really appreciate it.  You can come back to your
work-in-progress a number of days later and have a far better insight as to
what you were working on and why you were changing which files.  This has
been my experience with many people.


-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Sam Roberts
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:53 PM
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] perforce vs. subversion

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:45:58PM +0100, Sweeney, Tony wrote:
> > I used to change these conf files and not open them, but "p4 diff"
> won't
> > report differences on unopened files!
> 
> Uh, "don't do that then"?

"used to"

I don't anymore, and diff works, but I have the problem of keeping my
discardable changes out of the current changelist.

> P4 diff -f filename#have does what you want.

Thanks, I will try this.

> > Also, the "p4 submit" commmand (unlike svn) doesn't allow multiple 
> > arguments. So if you have changes in src/ and doc/, but don't want 
> > to submit changes in conf/, you have to do a "p4 submit ...", then
> manually
> > weed out the conf/ files. With svn, I would do "svn submit src doc".
> 
> 'P4 submit' didn't originally take any arguments at all.  I asked them 
> to add one, on the grounds I often found myself running 'p4 edit 
> filename; p4 submit filename', and it seemed like a fairly natural 
> usage.

I'd agree.

> file names, triggering a bug, which Perforce "fixed" by restricting 
> the number of arguments to one (although wildcards are still allowed).  
> In my view it should take arbitrary files on the command line, same as 
> p4 edit, etc.  As a workround, you can create a change using 'p4 
> change', put just the files you want into it using 'p4 reopen -c 
> <changeno> files' (which doesn't have the single argument restriction 
> imposed by
> submit) and 'p4 submit -c <changeno>'.

Thanks for the info.

I'm not yet convinced that this is easier or more reliable than just
deleting files from the changelist when I do a p4 submit, but I'll give it a
try.

Thanks,
Sam

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