[p4] manipulating changelists with sed

[Andy Finkenstadt]

I haven't done what you have done yet from a script, but when I edit 
changelist commentaries, I need to have 'admin' privilege or better to 
do so.

'p4 help protect'

andy


Jay Renbaum wrote:
> I am trying to add a string to a changelist to denote that it was used
> in a QA build.
>
>  
>
> Ideally, I would add it to the description section so that as part of
> the next QA build that I run I can find the last one and run a p4 diff
> between changelists to see the delta.
>
>  
>
> I am able to run the following command successfully using sed:
>
>  
>
>   
>> ClientBuilds>p4 change -f -o 9077 | sed
>>     
> 's/^Description:/Description:\n\tQA_BUILD__LS100_R1-0__trunk__2006_1022_
> 0749 /'
>
>  
>
> This results in:
>
>  
>
> # A Perforce Change Specification.
>
> #
>
> #  Change:      The change number. 'new' on a new changelist.
> Read-only.
>
> #  Date:        The date this specification was last modified.
> Read-only.
>
> #  Client:      The client on which the changelist was created.
> Read-only.
>
> #  User:        The user who created the changelist. Read-only.
>
> #  Status:      Either 'pending' or 'submitted'. Read-only.
>
> #  Description: Comments about the changelist.  Required.
>
> #  Jobs:        What opened jobs are to be closed by this changelist.
>
> #               You may delete jobs from this list.  (New changelists
> only.)
>
> #  Files:       What opened files from the default changelist are to be
> added
>
> #               to this changelist.  You may delete files from this
> list.
>
> #               (New changelists only.)
>
>  
>
> Change: 9077
>
>  
>
> Date:   2006/10/20 16:19:56
>
>  
>
> Client: jr_win32_client
>
>  
>
> User:   jrenbaum
>
>  
>
> Status: submitted
>
>  
>
> Description:
>
>         QA_BUILD__LS100_R1-0__trunk__2006_1022_0749
>
>         Added message if APP_CONFIG_NAME variable is not set.
>
>  
>
>  
>
> The added QA_BUILD string is exactly what I want added, however, when I
> pipe this command to p4 change -i it fails:
>
>  
>
> jrenbaum at swbuild2:~/p4_src/CM_tools/ClientBuilds> p4 change -f -o 9077 |
> sed
> 's/^Description:/Description:\n\tQA_BUILD__LS100_R1-0__trunk__2006_1022_
> 0749 /' | p4 change -i
>
>  
>
> Results in:
>
>  
>
> Error in change specification.
>
> Can't update committed change 9077.
>
>  
>
> Any ideas? Am I using the p4 change command incorrectly? Is there an
> easier way to denote which changelist has been used in a QA build
> without applying labels/tags?
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
>  
>
> Jay Renbaum
>
>  
>
>  
>
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