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DurgaDatta
DurgaDatta

Reputation: 4170

Opening a changelist in Perforce

In perforce, changelist seems to be an important component/concept. It is mentioned as "a basic unit of work in perforce" in it's document introducing perforce. I understand that changelists are used to submit changes to the perforce server, and they are assigned integer id. However, I would like to understand how they are implemented. Are changelists ordinary human-readable text file? Can the be opened given the changelist number?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 169

Answers (1)

Samwise
Samwise

Reputation: 71454

To "open" a changelist, run:

p4 change CHANGENO

This will give you the changelist formatted as a human-readable text file (a changelist specification).

On the back end changelists are stored in a database, so there is not an editable text file on the back end that looks like this; running commands like "p4 change" and "p4 describe" will generate it for you.

The most important aspect of a changelist is usually the file revisions it contains; you can use a changelist as a revision specifier for most Perforce commands. For example:

p4 files @CHANGENO,CHANGENO
p4 diff2 path/...@CHANGE1 path/...@CHANGE2

et cetera.

Upvotes: 2

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