[p4] Diff for specific changeset?

[Dave Lewis]

oh, I see...  That is a lot of pending changelists!  Is that typical
in your environment?

I agree it would be a nice option for p4 diff.  You should send a note
to support asking for it.  They keep track of various enhancement
requests.

dave

On 10/9/07, Sam Clegg <sam at ideaworks3d.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:11 -0500, Dave Lewis wrote:
> > I have several thoughts...  The idea is code review, so I don't really
> > see sending diffs as a very nice way to do code reviews.  I am
> > surprised that nobody has mentioned p4tar as a means to package up the
> > changes to send to somebody for review.  There have been discussions
> > in the past about whole systems devoted to code review, I can't recall
> > their names offhand though.
>
> Its not just for code review.  If I have 20 outstanding changelists and
> I'm about to submit one of them the fist thing I'm going to want to do
> is eyeball the combined diff of all the files in the changelist (the
> evquiv for GUI users of selecting all the files in the changelist and
> pressing ctrl-d).
>
> Also, tools like p4tar and things the "shelve" changes would be far
> simpler to write/read/develop if "p4 describe" was capable of showing
> local diffs.
>
>
> --
> sam clegg
> sam at ideaworks3d.com
>
>