[p4] Diff for specific changeset?

[Chuck Karish]

> > this (or something like it) should do what you want on UNIX derived systems:
> >
> >     p4 opened -c default | grep ' - edit default change ' | sed -e
> > 's/#.*$//' | p4 -x - diff
>
> Yuck.  Nothing against your shell scripting, but p4 should make this
> common task simpler than the above.

Following Tony's example, this does what Roy first requested:

p4 describe $CHANGE | sed -n 's/^\.\.\. \(.*\) [a-z]*/\1/p' | p4 -x - diff

> Why can't "p4 describe" show the diffs of pending changlists when
> running on the machine where the changes exist?

It could.  Perforce would have to add the capability.

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