I need to find out if file/folder is under specific source control.
The easiest way of doing this is to find some hidden folders. (this does not guaranty that partifical file is under source control, but with some probality says that this source control was used )
It's quite straightforward with SVN, GIT, as they have hidden folders.
But I can not find the same things for Perforce and ClearCase. Are there any universal way to understand what VSC is used in those paricular cases?
Perforce does not litter the drive, but keeps the info on the server. Also, files can be mapped in different structures, and mixed with non-controlled files, so it's not something you can determine by looking at the file itself.
However you can simply ask Perforce. For example, at the CLI:
P4 fstat FILENAME
Will give you info about a file if it is under source control.
If you need to script it for Perforce, there is an option (-s) that makes things easier (since the exit code of p4 doesn't indicate success or failure of the Perforce command). So, for bourne-like shells something like this should work:
if p4 -s fstat FILENAME | grep 'exit: 0' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
echo "Perforce knows this file"
else
echo "Perforce don't care"
fi
For ClearCase, you will find a hidden file named view.dat at the root directory of a (snapshot) view .
If the file is under M:\ (Windows) or /view/vobs (Unix), no need to look for an hidden file or directory: you know it is a dynamic view.
Another way is to execute, in the parent directory of a file:
cleartool lsview -cview.
If that directory is in a view, that command will return its name.
Similarly, i you can run a command like p4 reconcile or p4 status, and it doesn't return an error, chances are you are in a Perforce workspace.
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Is it possible to specify the folder name where depot needs to be synced ?
I tried syncing the depot to my specified path using following command but it does not work.
p4sync -d "c:\my\path" sync //depot//branch/file
Note : My aim is just to copy the file from depot to my specified location.
Looks like sync is not the command I should be using. Is there any other command or way I can do this ?
sync - gets files from depot to your workspace, which must be already customized. To get files without workspace you need to make some hack with command "print":
p4 print -o filename //path/on/depot/filename
This command (above) gets filename and store it in "filename". Also, you can make some another workaround to get all files from some directory, probably with "p4 -x - command" ( -x stands for xargs in unix-world)
Given a path (on my computer), how can I test whether that file is under version control (ie. a copy exists in the Perforce depot)? I'd like to test this at the command line.
Check p4 help files. In short, you run p4 files <your path here> and it will give you the depot path to that file. If it isn't in the depot, you'll get "no such file(s)".
For scripting, p4 files FILE is insufficient because it doesn't change its exit code when there is no such file.
Instead, you can pass it through grep, which looks for perforce paths' telltale pair of leading slashes:
# silently true when the file exists or false when it does not.
p4_exists() {
p4 files -e "$1" 2>/dev/null |grep -q ^//
}
You can get rid of the 2>/dev/null and grep's -q if you want visible output.
Before p4 files version 2012.1 (say p4 files version 2011.1), it didn't support -e. You'll have to add |grep -v ' - delete [^-]*$' before the grep above.
Warning: A future p4 release could change the formatting and break this logic.
Similar to Adam Katz's solution except more likely to be supported by future releases of p4, you can pass global option -s which 'prepends a descriptive field' to each line. This is one of 'text', 'info', 'error' or 'exit' followed by a colon (and a space, it seems). This is intended for facilitating scripting.
For all files passed in to the p4 -s files command, you should get one line back per file. If the file exists in the depot, the line starts with info: whereas if the file does not exist in the depot, the line starts with error:. For example:
info: //depot/<depot-path-to-file>
error: <local-path-to-file>
So, essentially, the status lines are the equivalent of an exit code but on a per-file basis. An exit code alone wouldn't cope neatly with an arbitrary number of files passed in.
Note that if there is a different error (e.g. a connection error) then an error line is still output. So, if you really want the processing to be robust, you may want to combine this with what Adam Katz suggested or perhaps grep for the basename of the file in the output line.
Not sure if this is possible or not, but I figured I'd ask to see if anyone knows. Is it possible to find a file containing a string in a Perforce repository? Specifically, is it possible to do so without syncing the entire repository to a local directory first? (It's quite large - I don't think I'd have room even if I deleted lots of stuff - that's what the archive servers are for anyhow.)
There's any number of tools that can search through files in a local directory (I personally use Agent Ransack, but it's just one of many), but these will not search a remote Perforce directory, unless there's some (preferably free) tool I'm not aware of that has this capability, or maybe some hidden feature within Perforce itself?
p4 grep is your friend. From the perforce blog
'p4 grep' allows users to use simple file searches as well as regular
expressions to search through file contents of head as well as earlier
revisions of files stored on the server. While not every single option
of a standard grep is supported, the most important options are
available. Here is the syntax of the command according to 'p4 help
grep':
p4 grep [ -a -i -n -v -A after -B before -C context -l -L -t -s -F -G ] -e pattern file[revRange]...
See also, the manual page.
Update: Note that there is a limitation on the number of files that Perforce will search in a single p4 grep command. Presumably this is to help keep the load on the server down. This manifests as an error:
Grep revision limit exceeded (over 10000).
If you have sufficient perforce permissions, you can use p4 configure to increase the dm.grep.maxrevs setting from this default of 10K to something larger. e.g. to set to 1 million:
p4 configure set dm.grep.maxrevs=1M
If you do not have permission to change this, you can work around it by splitting the p4 grep up into multiple commands over the subdirectories. You may have need to split further into sub-subdirectories etc depending on your depot structure.
For example, this command can be used at a bash shell to search each subdirectory of //depot/trunk one at a time. Makes use of the p4 dirs command to obtain the list of subdirectories from the server.
for dir in $(p4 dirs //depot/trunk/*); do
p4 grep -s -i -e the_search_string $dir/...
done
Actually, solved this one myself. p4 grep indeed does the trick. Doc here. You have to carefully narrow it down before it'll work properly - on our server at least you have to get it down to < 10000 files. I also had to redirect the output to a file instead of printing it out in the console, adding > output.txt, because there's a limit of 4096 chars per line in the console and the file paths are quite long.
It's not something you can do with the standard perforce tools. One helpful command might be p4 print but it's not really faster than syncing I would think.
This is a big if but if you have access to the server you can run agent ransack on the perforce directory. Perforce stores all versioned files on disk, it's only the metadata that's in a database.
I have 10k perforce files mentioned in my file.txt.
I need to open them using p4 edit command.
I expect some command like "p4 edit ?????file.txt". Can you help me to check these files out?
You can use the -x flag on p4. This is assuming a UNIX shell.
cat file.txt | p4 -x - edit
I assume you have some copy of directories structure where you have changes, and now you need to add those files to a change list. Which is impossible to do without checking them out. Am I right?
If I needed to change that much amount of files, I would do like this:
Copy all files I wanted to check in replacing read-only files (Wondows Explorer can do that)
In P4V go to a directory you need to check out files in, and then call "Reconcile offline work".
In appeared dialog choose all files.
Get new changelist with changed files being checked out.
I used this solution a couple of times - it works for added, changed and deleted files.
Just use below command to edit all files present in file.txt
p4 -x file.txt edit
I am trying to get the last checkin on a particular folder structure on perforce, I know "p4 changes -m1 'filepath" does the job, but the problem is the filepath has to be the depot file-path. What I have on the other hand is the local filepath something like "C:\Android\Version10.2\MyApp\" and not "//depot/Andoid/Version10.2/MyApp".
I tried using commands like "p4 fstat", "p4 where" and "p4 files", but for all of them it works fine with the depot file path, if I give the local file path, it keeps complaining file(s) not on client/no such file(s).
The other issue is I dont have rights to change the p4client on the machine. How do I get this to work?
Basic question then to sum up is being able to get the last change on a folder/file for which I have the local filepath.
Regards
If you're going to run any commands on files those files have to be in the workspace. The problem is probably that p4 on Windows defaults to the machine name as the workspace name if you don't supply one.
So you either have to run set P4CLIENT=<clientname> then run p4 changes -m1 <filename>,
or p4 -c <clientname> changes -m1 <filepath> where <filepath> can be the file on your local file system, so C:\Android\Version10.2\MyApp\ would be acceptable.
Does p4 filelog -m 1 <filename> give you what you want? You can add the -l (lowercase L, not one) switch to get more information.
If you have a local file (as opposed to the depot-path), then you also should have a client-spec. You need to specify this with the -c option:
p4 -c <name-of-client-spec> changes -m1 <filepath>