[p4] Un-delete a job?

[Shawn Hladky]

In my opinion, this is one of the biggest gaps in Perforce.  Our change
management process relies heavily on jobs/fixes, and this lack of historical
evidence is frustrating.  It's a big pain to sift through log and journal
files to figure this stuff out.  We actually lie to our users, and tell them
that Perforce won't let them unfix jobs.  If they submitted a changelist
with the wrong job fixed they send us an e-mail to re-fix.  Since our users
generally don't use the command line or read help files, our little lie
worked.  That is, until the new GUIs came out with context menus to un-fix
jobs.

At a minimum, I think Perforce needs a trigger on fix / un-fix... we can
implement security that way, and it would also help the defect tracking
integrations.  Full-blown versioning of fix records would be nice too.

On 4/26/07, paul goffin <paul.goffin at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> "p4 jobs" is an "engineering whiteboard".  Once someone (anyone! - the
> room the
> whiteboard is kept in doesn't have a lock on the door...) has run a damp
> cloth
> over it, everything has gone.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> Quoting Jeff Grills <jgrills at drivensnow.org>:
>
> >
> > There's no undelete for jobs I know of, but you should be able to grab
> the
> > appropriate records from last night's checkpoint and today's journal
> > (excluding the delete entries, of course) and replay them in to your
> current
> > server to restore the records for the job.  I don't know the full range
> of
> > records that would be necessary, but perforce support probably already
> knows
> > or can figure it out quickly.  If you don't have a support contract, you
> > should be able to figure out the records necessary by looking at exactly
> > what was deleted by the errant delete, or by looking at the DB schema.
> >
> > Do you have a spec depot?  It might have what you need in it as well,
> but
> > I'm not sure.  I haven't used the spec depot nor jobs very extensively.
> >
> > j
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> > [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Jensen
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:07 PM
> > To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> > Subject: [p4] Un-delete a job?
> >
> >
> > So someone deleted a job that had many checkins to it.  Is there a
> practical
> > way to undelete it?
> >
> > If not, is there a practical way to create a new one of the same name
> and
> > have the prior changelists associated with the new one as with the
> deleted
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