[p4] How many lines of code have I written?

[Chris Helck]

Frank,
Perhaps you're right. I took a look at diff and it seems to run on the
client which gives me total control. I believe my complaint should have
been directed against diff2 which runs on the server. In any case this
is not a serious problem, and it's not immediately obvious to me how it
could be improved.
-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Cusack [mailto:fcusack at fcusack.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:27 PM
To: Chris Helck; perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] How many lines of code have I written?

On January 11, 2010 1:38:33 PM -0500 Chris Helck
<Chris.Helck at us.icap.com>
wrote:
> It would be nice if the output of p4 diff was compatible with GNU diff

> and diffstat in particular -- though perhaps this has changed, I'm 
> stuck on P4 2007.1.

It is and always has been.  Only the header line (indicating the files)
is different, and my guess is that this is because of variability on
where files can be in the depot vs where they are on the filesystem.

This does break diffstat but it's trivially fixable by wrapping p4 diff
and printing a compatible header line.

-frank

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