Re: Perforce and `p4 diff2' against the origin

Ed Schouten wrote:
> * John Baldwin <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> On Saturday 05 April 2008 10:50:38 am Ed Schouten wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Because my mpsafetty project in Perforce is going quite well, I'm
>>> considering running some kind of cron job to generate nightly diffs, so
>>> other people (interested friends, colleagues and others) to test my
>>> work.
>>>
>>> I've read `p4 help diff2' and it seems you can run the following
>>> command:
>>>
>>> 	p4 diff2 -b mpsafetty
>>>
>>> Unfortunately this command just does a braindead diff against the latest
>>> FreeBSD vendor source, which is not useful in my case. I just want it to
>>> generate a diff against the version I integrated.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to do this with Perforce?
>> One option is to create a label and sync it each time you do an integ.  I do 
>> this for projects/smpng.  Then I can do:
>>
>> p4 diff2 -u -b smpng @smpng_base #head
> 
> I just tried this and just wanted to say it works great. This method is

The two scripts I mentioned do exactly this. (but easier on the eyes.)



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