svk v git + possible gig

[Nicholas Clark]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:21:10AM +0100, Billy Abbott wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:

> >d. one needs to p4-edit files one want to modify, and even if they're
> >not modified, they're still part of the submitted changeset.
> 
> While not an ideal solution, you can easily remove any files you don't 
> want in the change set when you submit. I use a command line client and 
> just chop off any files that I haven't modded in the interactive check-in 
> form. You can also pass an option to change the behaviour to only submit 
> changed files - 
> http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/submit.html

But [one for hates-software]:

$ p4 opened
//depot/perl/AUTHORS#177 - edit default change (text)
//depot/perl/ext/util/make_ext#21 - edit default change (text)
//depot/perl/ext/util/make_ext_cross#2 - edit default change (text)
$ p4 submit ext/util/make_ext ext/util/make_ext_cross
Usage: submit [ -i -s -r ] [ -c changelist# ] [file] 
Missing/wrong number of arguments.


Oh. Wait. The page Billy links to says files. Maybe I have an old client...

$ wget http://www.perforce.com/downloads/perforce/r08.1/bin.linux26x86/p4
--11:45:18--  http://www.perforce.com/downloads/perforce/r08.1/bin.linux26x86/p4
           => `p4'
Resolving www.perforce.com... 206.173.243.5
Connecting to www.perforce.com|206.173.243.5|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://filehost.perforce.com/perforce/r08.1/bin.linux26x86/p4 [following]
--11:45:19--  http://filehost.perforce.com/perforce/r08.1/bin.linux26x86/p4
           => `p4'
Resolving filehost.perforce.com... 206.225.83.22
Connecting to filehost.perforce.com|206.225.83.22|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 556,272 (543K) [application/octet-stream]

100%[====================================>] 556,272      161.60K/s    ETA 00:00

11:45:24 (161.15 KB/s) - `p4' saved [556272/556272]

$ chmod +x p4
$ ./p4 submit ext/util/make_ext ext/util/make_ext_cross
Usage: submit [ -i -s -r ] [ -c changelist# ] [file] 
Missing/wrong number of arguments.
$ ./p4 -V
Perforce - The Fast Software Configuration Management System.
Copyright 1995-2008 Perforce Software.  All rights reserved.
Rev. P4/LINUX26X86/2008.1/158777 (2008/07/09).



FAIL!

Yes, if you want to submit more than one file from the current opened files,
*but not all of them* then the only way to do it is to edit the changeset
as you write your commit message. ie something you can forget.


Nicholas Clark