I'm writing a syntax check tool to parse several files on different branches.
Is there a way for me to read the contents without checking out the file?
The tool is written in Perl.
`p4 print //depot/path/to/file`;
(Usual requirements for running a p4 command apply -- make sure the p4 executable is in your PATH, make sure you're authenticated with p4 login, make sure you're connecting to the right server, etc.)
See p4 help print for more info on the print command -- you might find the -q and/or -o flags helpful depending on what exactly you need to do with the output.
I'm trying to write a function quickgit that automatically adds, commits, and pushes with the added benefit of the commit message coming from fortune. I have the following script:
function quickgit
git add --all
git commit -m (fortune)
git push
end
Which works except the commit message is "(fortune)" instead of being a message from fortune. How do I make sure that fortune is run and expanded in my fish function?
fish has enough issues with the finer points of getting quoting just right that I'd avoid using it in scripts entirely. (See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/159)
I was unable to reproduce your exact issue, but ran into ones of my own around multi-line fortunes. (see the referenced bug)
That being said, for your use case you can avoid it entirely with:
function quickgit
git add --all
fortune | git commit -F -
git push
end
Command substitution splits the output of the command on newline boundaries by default. So a multi-line fortune will pass multiple arguments to the git commit -m. That means only the first line will be handled by the -m option and the second thru n'th lines will end up being treated as file names. Try adding set -l IFS to your function to inhibit that splitting. Another approach is to capture the output in a var then interpolate the var:
set -l fortune (/usr/games/fortune)
git commit -m "$fortune"
But note that will replace each newline with a space.
I have a situation where I'd like to diff two branches in Perforce. Normally I'd use diff2 to do a server-side diff but in this case the files on the branches are so large that the diff2 call ends up filling up /tmp on my server trying to diff them and the diff fails.
I can't bring down my server to rectify this so I'm looking at checking out the the content to disk and using diff on the command line to inspect and compare the content.
The trouble is: most of the files have RCS keywords in them that are being expanded.
I know can remove keyword expansion from a file by opening the files for edit and removing the -k attribute from the files in the process, but that seems a bit brute force. I was hoping I could just tell the p4 sync command not to expand the keywords on checkout. I can't seem to find a way to do this? Is it possible?
As a possible alternative solution, does anyone know if you can tell p4 diff2 which directory to use for temporary space when you call it? If I could tell it to use abundant NAS space instead of /tmp on the Perforce server I might be able to make it work.
I'm using 2010.x version of Perforce if that changes the answer in any way.
There's no way I know of to disable keyword expansion on sync. Here's what I would try:
1) Create a branch spec between the two sets of files
2) Run "p4 files //path/to/files/... | cut -d '#' -f 1 > tmp"
Path to files above should be the right hand side of the branch spec you created
3) p4 -x tmp diff2 -b
This tells p4 to iterate over the lines of text in 'tmp' and treat them as arguments to the command. I think /tmp on your server will get cleared in-between each file this way, preventing it from filling up.
I unfortunately don't have files large enough to test that it works, so this is entirely theoretical.
To change the temp directory that p4d uses just TEMP or TMP to a different path and restart p4d. If you're on Windows make sure to call 'p4 set -S perforce TMP=' to set variable for the Perforce service; without the -S perforce you'll just set it for the current user.
I am using following command to get a brief history of the CVS repository.
cvs -d :pserver:*User*:*Password*#*Repo* rlog -N -d "*StartDate* < *EndDate*" *Module*
This works just fine except for one small problem. It lists all tags created on each file in that repository. I want the tag info, but I only want the tags that are created in the date range specified. How do I change this command to do that.
I don't see a way to do that natively with the rlog command. Faced with this problem, I would write a Perl script to parse the output of the command, correlate the tags to the date range that I want and print them.
Another solution would be to parse the ,v files directly, but I haven't found any robust libraries for doing that. I prefer Perl for that type of task, and the parsing modules don't seem to be very high quality.
Anybody have a script or alias to find untracked (really: unadded) files in a Perforce tree?
EDIT: I updated the accepted answer on this one since it looks like P4V added support for this in the January 2009 release.
EDIT: Please use p4 status now. There is no need for jumping through hoops anymore. See #ColonelPanic's answer.
In the Jan 2009 version of P4V, you can right-click on any folder in your workspace tree and click "reconcile offline work..."
This will do a little processing then bring up a split-tree view of files that are not checked out but have differences from the depot version, or not checked in at all. There may even be a few other categories it brings up.
You can right-click on files in this view and check them out, add them, or even revert them.
It's a very handy tool that's saved my ass a few times.
EDIT: ah the question asked about scripts specifically, but I'll leave this answer here just in case.
On linux, or if you have gnu-tools installed on windows:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 p4 fstat >/dev/null
This will show an error message for every unaccounted file. If you want to capture that output:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 p4 fstat >/dev/null 2>mylogfile
Under Unix:
find -type f ! -name '*~' -print0| xargs -0 p4 fstat 2>&1|awk '/no such file/{print $1}'
This will print out a list of files that are not added in your client or the Perforce depot. I've used ! -name '*~' to exclude files ending with ~.
Ahh, one of the Perforce classics :) Yes, it really sucks that there is STILL no easy way for this built into the default commands.
The easiest way is to run a command to find all files under your clients root, and then attempt to add them to the depot. You'll end up with a changelist of all new files and existing files are ignored.
E.g dir /s /b /A-D | p4 -x - add
(use 'find . -type f -print' from a nix command line).
If you want a physical list (in the console or file) then you can pipe on the results of a diff (or add if you also want them in a changelist).
If you're running this within P4Win you can use $r to substitute the client root of the current workspace.
Is there an analogue of svn status or git status?
Yes, BUT.
As of Perforce version 2012.1, there's the command p4 status and in P4V 'reconcile offline work'. However, they're both very slow. To exclude irrelevant files you'll need to write a p4ignore.txt file per https://stackoverflow.com/a/13126496/284795
2021-07-16: THIS ANSWER MAY BE OBSOLETE.
I am reasonably sure that it was accurate in 2016, for whatever version of Perforce I was using them (which was not necessarily the most current). But it seems that this problem or design limitation has been remedied in subsequent releases of Perforce. I do not know what the stack overflow etiquette for this is -- should this answer be removed?
2016 ANSWER
I feel impelled to add an answer, since the accepted answer, and some of the others, have what I think is a significant problem: they do not understand the difference between a read-only query command, and a command that makes changes.
I don't expect any credit for this answer, but I hope that it will help others avoid wasting time and making mistakes by following the accepted but IMHO incorrect answer.
---+ BRIEF
Probably the most convenient way to find all untracked files in a perforce workspace is p4 reconcile -na.
-a says "give me files that are not in the repository, i.e. that should be added".
-n says "make no changes" - i.e. a dry-run. (Although the messages may say "opened for add", mentally you must interpret that as "would be opened for add if not -n")
Probably the most convenient way to find all local changes made while offline - not just files that might need to be added, but also files that might need to be deleted, or which have been changed without being opened for editing via p4 edit, is p4 reconcile -n.
Several answers provided scripts, often involving p4 fstat. While I have not verified all of those scripts, I often use similar scripts to make up for the deficiencies of perforce commands such as p4 reconcile -n - e.g. often I find that I want local paths rather than Perforce depot paths or workspace paths.
---+ WARNING
p4 status is NOT the counterpart to the status commands on other version control systems.
p4 status is NOT a read-only query. p4 status actually finds the same sort of changes that p4 reconcile does, and adds them to the repository. p4 status does not seem to have a -n dry-run option like p4 reconcile does.
If you do p4 status, look at the files and think "Oh, I don't need those", then you will have to p4 revert them if you want to continue editing in the same workspace. Or else the changes that p4 status added to your changeset will be checked in the next time.
There seems to be little or no reason to use p4 status rather than p4 reconcile -n, except for some details of local workspace vs depot pathname.
I can only imagine that whoever chose 'status' for a non-read-only command had limited command of the English language and other version control tools.
---+ P4V GUI
In the GUI p4v, the reconcile command finds local changes that may need to be added, deleted, or opened for editing. Fortunately it does not add them to a changelist by default; but you still may want to be careful to close the reconcile window after inspecting it, if you don't want to commit the changes.
Alternatively from P4Win, use the ""Local Files not in Depot" option on the left hand view panel.
I don't use P4V much, but I think the equivalent is to select "Hide Local Workspace Files" in the filter dropdown of the Workspace view tab.p4 help fstat
In P4V 2015.1 you'll find these options under the filter button like this:
I use the following in my tool that backs up any files in the workspace that differ from the repository (for Windows). It handles some odd cases that Perforce doesn't like much, like embedded blanks, stars, percents, and hashmarks:
dir /S /B /A-D | sed -e "s/%/%25/g" -e "s/#/%40/g" -e "s/#/%23/g" -e "s/\*/%2A/g" | p4 -x- have 1>NUL:
"dir /S /B /A-D" lists all files at or below this folder (/S) in "bare" format (/B) excluding directories (/A-D). The "sed" changes dangerous characters to their "%xx" form (a la HTML), and the "p4 have" command checks this list ("-x-") against the server discarding anything about files it actually locates in the repository ("1>NUL:"). The result is a bunch of lines like:
Z:\No_Backup\Workspaces\full\depot\Projects\Archerfish\Portal\Main\admin\html\images\nav\navxx_background.gif - file(s) not on client.
Et voilà!
Quick 'n Dirty: In p4v right-click on the folder in question and add all files underneath it to a new changelist. The changelist will now contain all files which are not currently part of the depot.
The following commands produce status-like output, but none is quite equivalent to svn status or git status, providing a one-line summary of the status of each file:
p4 status
p4 opened
p4 diff -ds
I don't have enough reputation points to comment, but Ross' solution also lists files that are open for add. You probably do not want to use his answer to clean your workspace.
The following uses p4 fstat (thanks Mark Harrison) instead of p4 have, and lists the files that aren't in the depot and aren't open for add.
dir /S /B /A-D | sed -e "s/%/%25/g" -e "s/#/%40/g" -e "s/#/%23/g" -e "s/\*/%2A/g" | p4 -x- fstat 2>&1 | sed -n -e "s/ - no such file[(]s[)]\.$//gp"
===Jac
Fast method, but little orthodox. If the codebase doesn't add new files / change view too often, you could create a local 'git' repository out of your checkout. From a clean perforce sync, git init, add and commit all files locally. Git status is fast and will show files not previously committed.
The p4 fstat command lets you test if a file exists in the workspace, combine with find to locate files to check as in the following Perl example:
// throw the output of p4 fstat to a 'output file'
// find:
// -type f :- only look at files,
// -print0 :- terminate strings with \0s to support filenames with spaces
// xargs:
// Groups its input into command lines,
// -0 :- read input strings terminated with \0s
// p4:
// fstat :- fetch workspace stat on files
my $status=system "(find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 p4 fstat > /dev/null) >& $outputFile";
// read output file
open F1, $outputFile or die "$!\n";
// iterate over all the lines in F1
while (<F1>) {
// remove trailing whitespace
chomp $_;
// grep lines which has 'no such file' or 'not in client'
if($_ =~ m/no such file/ || $_ =~ m/not in client/){
// Remove the content after '-'
$_=~ s/-\s.*//g;
// below line is optional. Check ur output file for more clarity.
$_=~ s/^.\///g;
print "$_\n";
}
}
close F1;
Or you can use p4 reconcile -n -m ...
If it is 'opened for delete' then it has been removed from the workspace. Note that the above command is running in preview mode (-n).
I needed something that would work in either Linux, Mac or Windows. So I wrote a Python script for it. The basic idea is to iterate through files and execute p4 fstat on each. (of course ignoring dependencies and tmp folders)
You can find it here: https://gist.github.com/givanse/8c69f55f8243733702cf7bcb0e9290a9
This command can give you a list of files that needs to be added, edited or removed:
p4 status -aed ...
you can use them separately too
p4 status -a ...
p4 status -e ...
p4 status -d ...
In P4V, under the "View" menu item choose "Files in Folder" which brings up a new tab in the right pane.
To the far right of the tabs there is a little icon that brings up a window called "Files in Folder" with 2 icons.
Select the left icon that looks like a funnel and you will see several options. Choose "Show items not in Depot" and all the files in the folder will show up.
Then just right-click on the file you want to add and choose "Mark for Add...". You can verify it is there in the "Pending" tab.
Just submit as normal (Ctrl+S).