One drawback: the cm.exe is slow in startup, likely because it is a .NET executable needing quite a few assemblies to load:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.7.1 Tools\CorFlags.exe" "C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM5\client\cm.exe"
Microsoft (R) .NET Framework CorFlags Conversion Tool. Version 4.7.2558.0
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Version : v4.0.30319
CLR Header: 2.5
PE : PE32
CorFlags : 0x1
ILONLY : 1
32BITREQ : 0
32BITPREF : 0
Signed : 0
Finding stuff
I get a feeling that there is quite a bit of cm functionality either undocumented, or hardly documented.
For instance, copying a title from the PlasticSCM GUI does not mean it will work as a cm command.
Despite the documentation indicating
When you run queries using comparison operators (>, <, >=, <=) from the command line, remember that the shell considers these operators as IO redirections, so you will need to enclose the queries with quotation marks: cm find "branches where owner='pablo' and changesets >= '2013/03/01'"
you have to be really careful where to put the starting double quote: it has to be after the find command:
Example 1
Title User query: find changeset where branch='/main/test/My Branch Name' on repository 'Projects@ssl://plastic.example.org:8088' (22 Items - 0 selected)
Failure "C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM5\client\cm.exe" "find changeset where branch='/main/test/My Branch Name' on repository 'Projects@ssl://plastic.example.org:8088'"
Command 'find changeset where branch='/main/test/My Branch Name' on repository 'Projects@ssl://plastic.example.org:8088'' not found. Type cm showcommands to get a command list.
Success "C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM5\client\cm.exe" find "changeset where branch='/main/test/My Branch Name' on repository 'Projects@ssl://plastic.example.org:8088'"
Example 2
Title Changesets /main/test/My Branch Name@Projects@ssl://plastic.example.org:8088 (4 Items - 1 selected)
Success "C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM5\client\cm.exe" find "Changesets where branch='/main/test/My Branch Name' on repository 'Projects@ssl://plastic.example.org:8088'"
This means that changeset can be Changesets: it is case insensitive and has multiple aliases. It looks similar to commands I used in my days of using Rational ClearCase – Wikipedia
I need to find out how to translate a non-query title into a query one. That will make it a lot easier to go from PlasticSCM GUI to the cm.
No XML documentation
The cm find command has a cool parameter --xml, which dumps the output in an XML tree.
My original goal was to see if I could turn the XML into something like Markdown or RST, using an XSLT transform like these:
Is there an XSD definition of the output format that the @plasticscm `cm –xml` produces. The root element seems to be always `PLASTICQUERY`, but https://t.co/AE0dBZOxm1 reveals no hits.
I hoped the elements were just uppercase versions of the output below, but they are not. Bummer.
–jeroen
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