[p4] P4V vs P4Win

[Matthew Janulewicz]

The latest version of P4V has a new 'Reconcile offline work' context
menu selection in the Workspace view tab.

It launches the P4Diff tool and you can go through the workspace as if
you were doing a folder diff. There are a few built-in folders (only
show offline work, only show identical file pairs, etc.) Things that are
'off' are highlighted in red. When you click on them the description
tells you why they are red and what you can do with them. I could go on
and on.

It's a pretty slick use of the diff tool. It's been so long since I did
the same thing with P4Win, but I seem to remember that it finds
everything and adds it to your changelist, then you go and revert the
things you don't want. This one lets you (forces you?) to do the work up
front. (Or with P4V you can just recursively mark for add and check
things out, then do the same thing as P4Win.)

Anyway, I believe this was brand new with 2007.1, but it's there and in
keeping with the theme of this debate, completely different than what's
in P4Win. :)


-Matt


On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 15:48 -0700, Rick Cameron wrote:
> One feature of p4win that doesn't appear to have a equivalent in p4v
> 2007.1 is the "Local files not in depot" view. Not that I ever use it,
> but .. um .. a friend of mine sometimes realises he has forgotten to add
> a newly-created file to the depot, and uses this view to track it down.
> 
> My friend says the view would be even more useful if it allowed the user
> to filter by file extension (I - I mean he - seldom wants to add .obj or
> .class files to the depot) and if it could search a whole subtree &
> display all un-added files.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> - rick (& friend)
> 
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