[p4] change filetypes for whole subtree?

[Qazwart]

That's been a big problem with RCS keyword expansion: You can't  
easily find true diffs. Even in CVS, I would have to fix merges where  
the whole "conflict" was the RCS string change.

I wrote a quickie Perl script to copy all the files in the directory  
into another directory and "unexpand" the RCS Keywords.

I don't have the script, but it wasn't too difficult. I used the  
"File::Find" module,  and used the substitution pattern s/$(Author| 
Date|Id|State):\$/\$$1:$/g (or something like that). The only real  
troublemaker is the "$Log$" keyword. If you have that, you're  
basically out of luck.

On May 10, 2007, at 5:55 PM, William Deegan wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I used cvs2p4 and it created all the files as type ktext, which I'd
> like to undo.
> Can I change all the files back and get the original $Id $ values
> which were imported?
> I want to verify the cvs checked out files match the perforce checked
> out imported files,
> and of course since the $Id $ is getting expanded all files are
> showing differences..
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
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David Weintraub
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qazwart at gmail.com