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PlasticSCM: delete a changeset

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/06/15

Every now and then you really goof up the final changeset in a series of changesets that are in a branch.

I have yet to figure out how to delete that changeset, other than keeping the branch stale and merge from the last good changeset to a new branch.

This seems hard to do given these from [Archive.is] plasticscm delete changeset – Google Search:

Deleting the branch fails because there is still a changeset on it:

Deleting the changeset fails because the option is greyed out:

It does not happen that often, though there are now about a few % of the branches stale because of this.

–jeroen

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PlasticSCM ignore.conf: globally ignoring certain file types, but allowing them recursively in a subdirectory

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/19

I needed this for a project there 3rdParty libraries could have .dcu and .obj files (to either speed up building, or because not all source code was supplied), but those files should not be present nowhere else in the repository.

This is an ignore.conf template for that:

*.obj
*.dcu

!/3rdParty/**/*.dcu
!/3rdParty/**/*.obj

The ! exclamation mark undoes the ignore according to the pattern following it.

Note the starting slashes after the !: they indicate the root directory of the repository and are mandatory.

Based on (warning, the JavaScript on these pages are extremely CPU intensive!):

–jeroen

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Plastic SCM: add the current directory recursively

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/18

Since I always forget the command (I do not use it often enough) [WayBack] Plastic SCM – Branch per task guide:

cm add -R .

That adds the current directory (.) recursively, taking into account the ignore.conf file.

–jeroen

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Plastic SCM: show the current changeset abstract (without files) on the commandline

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/14

I could not find a syntax for “current changeset”, but since cm log accepts the output of cm status as changeset identifier:

for /F "tokens=*" %l in ('call cm status --nochanges') do (call cm log %l --itemformat )

Or in batch file form:

for /F "tokens=*" %%l in ('call cm status --nochanges') do (call cm log %%l --itemformat )

Two important parts of the trick that ensure each command only outputs what is needed:

  1. The empty --itemformat specification for cm log indicates that no details about files should be logged.Without it, cm log will list both the changeset information and information about each item in the changeset.
  2. The other trick is --nochanges for cm status: it only shows the status line, and no other changes.Without it, cm status will emit one line per changed file.

–jeroen

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Undocumented Plastic “cm status –hiddenchanged” to show hidden changes like the Plastic SCM GUI does by default

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/16

[WayBack] Undo changes to a hidden changes item from CLI – General – Plastic SCM Community.

Maybe I should start an undocumented Plastic SCM series just like I did for Delphi. (:

As soon as you have entries in your hidden_changes.conf, then entries matching will show up in your Plastic SCM GUI, but not included in the cm status --all command.

Luckily there is an the --hiddenchanged switch (maybe to keep naming inconsistent with the hidden_changes.conf file) which is only documented in cm changed --help, not on-line).

So my new cm-show-status.bat file contains this line:

cm status --all --hiddenchanged %*

Maybe more switches can be deducted from [WayBack] Plastic SCM version control · The Plastic SCM API: GET PENDING CHANGES IN WORKSPACE:

GET PENDING CHANGES IN WORKSPACE

GET /api/v1/wkspaces/:wkname/changes

Parameters

Name Type Description
types string A comma-separated list detailing the desired change types to display in the response. Available types: added, checkout, changed, copied, replaced, deleted, localdeleted, moved, localmoved, private, ignored, hiddenchanged, controlledchanged, all

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