[p4] Check consistency application

[Silgi, Nir]

Hi,

 

One of our developers' major source of confusion is the way
sync/statuses works in Perforce, meaning if they change a file locally
not through Perforce (meaning without checking it out), it will still
show synced and resyncing it will not sync it and will not tell them it
changed. The fact that Perforce retains the status of the file no matter
what you do to the file locally (again not through P4) is a bit of a
problem. 

The Eclipse IDE and P4 p4wsad plugin has a wonderful solution named
check consistency. If working offline you simply run it and it shows you
the files that were added, changed and deleted and will mark them
accordingly in Perforce. I wonder why Perforce doesn't have an
application like that (not to mention VS .NET). I know we can diff the
folder for changed files but it is manual, command line and not
comprehensive.

So we thought writing a relatively simple GUI application which acts
just like the Check consistency app add in Eclipse.

I would like to know if anyone has experience in solution like this or
has a better solution or any other useful inputs and tips.

 

Thanks,

 

-NirS