[p4] Check consistency application

[Greg Whitfield]

There is also the "Check Consistency" menu option from P4Win that does, I
think, what your developers want. It diffs the files on your disk with those
in the depot, and gives you the option of checking out those that have been
modified locally outside of Perforce.

It is hidden away a bit. Just select the folder in the depot view, then
File->More->Check Consistency.

I can't find the equivalent in P4V, but perhaps it is just hidden away
somewhere or under a different name?

Greg
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-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Jensen
Sent: 11 January 2007 03:59
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Check consistency application

Just script the steps in Tech Note 2:

 http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note002.html


-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Silgi, Nir
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 5:02 PM
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: [p4] Check consistency application

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 

 

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