How to find out first author of a code in perforce
There is a c file in a source code repository(maintained by perforce) I am working on. Many people have made changes over time in that file. There is a while loop written inside that file. I want to know the author who has first introduced this while loop. If I use p4annotate then it is showing me some author who first removed this loop and later again added that loop. I mean he is not the first author of that while loop. Is there any way to know first author of that piece of code?
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asked Nov 22 '18 at 10:02
RanjuRanju
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There is a c file in a source code repository(maintained by perforce) I am working on. Many people have made changes over time in that file. There is a while loop written inside that file. I want to know the author who has first introduced this while loop. If I use p4annotate then it is showing me some author who first removed this loop and later again added that loop. I mean he is not the first author of that while loop. Is there any way to know first author of that piece of code?
perforce
asked Nov 22 '18 at 10:02
RanjuRanju
426
2
Use the-aflag top4 annotate
– Bryan Pendleton
Nov 22 '18 at 17:20
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There is a c file in a source code repository(maintained by perforce) I am working on. Many people have made changes over time in that file. There is a while loop written inside that file. I want to know the author who has first introduced this while loop. If I use p4annotate then it is showing me some author who first removed this loop and later again added that loop. I mean he is not the first author of that while loop. Is there any way to know first author of that piece of code?
perforce
asked Nov 22 '18 at 10:02
RanjuRanju
426
There is a c file in a source code repository(maintained by perforce) I am working on. Many people have made changes over time in that file. There is a while loop written inside that file. I want to know the author who has first introduced this while loop. If I use p4annotate then it is showing me some author who first removed this loop and later again added that loop. I mean he is not the first author of that while loop. Is there any way to know first author of that piece of code?
perforce
perforce
asked Nov 22 '18 at 10:02
RanjuRanju
426
asked Nov 22 '18 at 10:02
RanjuRanju
426
asked Nov 22 '18 at 10:02
RanjuRanju
426
asked Nov 22 '18 at 10:02
RanjuRanju
426
asked Nov 22 '18 at 10:02
RanjuRanju
426
426
2
Use the-aflag top4 annotate
– Bryan Pendleton
Nov 22 '18 at 17:20
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2
Use the-aflag top4 annotate
– Bryan Pendleton
Nov 22 '18 at 17:20
2
2
Use the
-a flag to p4 annotate– Bryan Pendleton
Nov 22 '18 at 17:20
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Options to p4 annotate that might be useful:
p4 annotate file#REVstarts the annotation at an earlier revision, so you could go back to the revision before the loop was deleted and see who'd last added it as of that revision.
p4 annotate -a fileshows all of the lines of the file, including those that have been deleted, so you'll see the original version of the while loop.
p4 annotate -I filetraces the origin of individual lines through merge operations from other files.
All of these options can be combined, so you can do things like p4 annotate -a -I file#START,#END to get detailed information (including merge sources) about all the lines added to the file between two points in time.
answered Nov 22 '18 at 17:29
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Options to p4 annotate that might be useful:
p4 annotate file#REVstarts the annotation at an earlier revision, so you could go back to the revision before the loop was deleted and see who'd last added it as of that revision.
p4 annotate -a fileshows all of the lines of the file, including those that have been deleted, so you'll see the original version of the while loop.
p4 annotate -I filetraces the origin of individual lines through merge operations from other files.
All of these options can be combined, so you can do things like p4 annotate -a -I file#START,#END to get detailed information (including merge sources) about all the lines added to the file between two points in time.
answered Nov 22 '18 at 17:29
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Options to p4 annotate that might be useful:
p4 annotate file#REVstarts the annotation at an earlier revision, so you could go back to the revision before the loop was deleted and see who'd last added it as of that revision.
p4 annotate -a fileshows all of the lines of the file, including those that have been deleted, so you'll see the original version of the while loop.
p4 annotate -I filetraces the origin of individual lines through merge operations from other files.
All of these options can be combined, so you can do things like p4 annotate -a -I file#START,#END to get detailed information (including merge sources) about all the lines added to the file between two points in time.
answered Nov 22 '18 at 17:29
Sam StaffordSam Stafford
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Options to p4 annotate that might be useful:
p4 annotate file#REVstarts the annotation at an earlier revision, so you could go back to the revision before the loop was deleted and see who'd last added it as of that revision.
p4 annotate -a fileshows all of the lines of the file, including those that have been deleted, so you'll see the original version of the while loop.
p4 annotate -I filetraces the origin of individual lines through merge operations from other files.
All of these options can be combined, so you can do things like p4 annotate -a -I file#START,#END to get detailed information (including merge sources) about all the lines added to the file between two points in time.
answered Nov 22 '18 at 17:29
Sam StaffordSam Stafford
12k719
Options to p4 annotate that might be useful:
p4 annotate file#REVstarts the annotation at an earlier revision, so you could go back to the revision before the loop was deleted and see who'd last added it as of that revision.
p4 annotate -a fileshows all of the lines of the file, including those that have been deleted, so you'll see the original version of the while loop.
p4 annotate -I filetraces the origin of individual lines through merge operations from other files.
All of these options can be combined, so you can do things like p4 annotate -a -I file#START,#END to get detailed information (including merge sources) about all the lines added to the file between two points in time.
answered Nov 22 '18 at 17:29
Sam StaffordSam Stafford
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answered Nov 22 '18 at 17:29
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answered Nov 22 '18 at 17:29
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