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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Subject: Re: Perforce and `p4 diff2' against the origin
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* John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> 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?
>=20
> One option is to create a label and sync it each time you do an integ.  I=
 do=20
> this for projects/smpng.  Then I can do:
>=20
> p4 diff2 -u -b smpng @smpng_base #head

I just tried this and just wanted to say it works great. This method is
quite useful when you want to generate nightly patches and such. Thanks!

--=20
 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/

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