[p4] graphical representation of branches?

[Chuck Emary]

The tool is not checked in, I will look for it. 

-----Original Message-----
From: jeff.a.bowles at gmail.com [mailto:jeff.a.bowles at gmail.com] On Behalf
Of Jeff A. Bowles
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:02 AM
To: Chuck Emary; Jay Glanville
Cc: Perforce Users
Subject: Re: Re: [p4] graphical representation of branches?

I second that. Especially with its Mac interface.

You might consider this dataflow:
    "p4 integrated" to see the trails of what was integrated to where.
         (Post-process to end up with "Codeline1 -> Codeline2", then
         put through "sort|uniq" to remove redundancies. YOUR
post-processing
         will be different from MINE, because you use different branch
names/strategies.
         Eliminate all "Codeline1 -> Codeline1" sort of entries, which
are probably
         renames.)
    Make a Graphviz-friendly .dot file from this.
    Start up Graphviz.

It's a fine tool, and free.

    -Jeff Bowles

ps. Chuck, any chance that Ruby tool's checked into the Perforce public
depot?

On 9/26/06, Chuck Emary <chuck.emary at configuresoft.com> wrote:
> Jay,
> Not sure what your specs are, but you might look at dot/graphviz
> (http://www.graphviz.org/), I have used it in conjunction with a ruby
> script to display Perforce info graphically.  It is possible to be
very
> creative with the file contents to produce customized layouts.
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Jay Glanville
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:05 AM
> To: Perforce Users Mailing List
> Subject: [p4] graphical representation of branches?
>
> Hello all you fellow P4'ers
>
> I want to create a graphical representation of all the branches that a
> product of ours has gone through.  I know that P4 doesn't provide this
> functionality natively, so I was wondering if anyone in the P4
community
> has developed such a tool.  Before somebody says, "don't forget the
> 'Revision Graph ...' functionality in P4V", yes, that's great, but
it's
> just for a specific file, not for branches.
>
> I was thinking that the branch specifications would be a good data
> source for this information (from, to, date, reason, name, etc).
>
> So, has anyone already developed such a tool?  If not and I need to
> write such a tool, is branch specifications the appropriate data
source?
>
> Thanks
>
> JDG
>
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