[p4] Getting the size of a branch

[Tetlow, Gordon]

In newer releases, check the p4 sizes command. Caveat, it relies on the
database having the sizes of the files, it won't calculate them. If you
haven't run p4 verify -u since the upgrade, it'll likely be problematic.

-gordon 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Robert Cowham
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:54 AM
> To: 'Jamison, Shawn'; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Getting the size of a branch
> 
> I assume you mean size of files on disk (as opposed to number 
> of files in
> branch)?!
> 
> P4 fstat has the following option:
> 
>              -Ol     output a fileSize and digest field for 
> each revision
>                      (this may be expensive to compute) 
> 
> So process output of:
> 
> P4 fstat -Ol //depot/some/branch/...
> 
> C:\bruno_ws>p4 fstat -Ol //depot/jam/MAIN/... | grep fileSize 
> | gawk "{s +=
> $3} END{print s;}"
> 475980
> 
> Note that the file size for text files is only accurate with Unix line
> endings.
> 
> Robert
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> > [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> > Jamison, Shawn
> > Sent: 29 April 2008 15:56
> > To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> > Subject: [p4] Getting the size of a branch
> > 
> > Howdy everyone,
> > 
> > Is there a way to get the size of a branch from Perforce 
> > without having to sync the files out to local disk?
> > 
> > Thanks for all your help.
> > -Shawn Jamison>
> > Ciena Corp.
> > Perforce Admin
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