[p4] what's the best way to determine the currentclient workspace?

[Jay Glanville]

Thanks for the reminder about "-s submitted".  Very helpful.

JDG

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Jay Dickon Glanville


> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Vance
> Sent: June 27, 2007 6:35 PM
> To: Jeff Grills
> Cc: Jay Glanville; Perforce Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [p4] what's the best way to determine the 
> currentclient workspace?
> 
> 
> Skip branch_name altogether and just do:
> 
> p4 changes -m 1 -s submitted //clientname/...
> 
> Don't forget submitted, though, so you exclude numbered 
> pending changelists.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Jeff Grills wrote:
> > Maybe try "p4 info". Since it looks like you want the output to be
> > easily parsed, you might try "p4 -ztag info".
> >
> > However, if you just want the latest change of the current 
> workspace and
> > don't need to be able to pass other workspaces names into 
> the script,
> > try "p4 changes -m1 //branch_name/...#have".
> >
> > j
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> > [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> Jay Glanville
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:00 PM
> > To: Perforce Users Mailing List
> > Subject: [p4] what's the best way to determine the current client
> > workspace?
> >
> > I want to write a script that calls a perforce command 
> where one of the
> > arguments is the name of the current workspace.  The 
> desired output of
> > the command is the latest change list number on the current 
> hard drive.
> > In other words, I want to execute the following command:
> >
> >     p4 changes -m 1 \
> >       //branch_name/...@[current_workspace] | \
> >       sed 's/Change \([0-9]*\).*/\1/'
> >
> > Where [current_workspace] is the name of the current workspace.  My
> > question is this: what is the best way to determine what is 
> the current
> > workspace?  My original thought was to parse the client 
> spec, something
> > like this:
> >
> >     p4 client -o | \
> >       sed 's/^Client: *\([a-zA-Z_0-9]*\).*/\1/'
> >
> > (I know that this sed won't actually work, but you get the idea).
> >
> > So, is this the best way?  Is there a better way?  Is there 
> a direct way
> > to do this (by that, I mean simply ask p4 directly 'what is 
> the current
> > workspace')?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > JDG
> >
> > ---
> > Jay Dickon Glanville
> >
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