Perforce: How to update a submitted changelist?

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Greetings!

The new Perforce actions in FB are smokin hot (thanks!).

My flow is:

  1. Create changelist
  2. Submit changelist
  3. Sync to changelist
  4. Build

Now my list piece is....

  1. Update changelist to note if build was successful or not...

But I do not see how to do that. (I can do it by hand...)

 

Pointers?

Thanks!

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OK, Perforce has this feature, but it is not surfaced as an out of box FB action...

 

Here is how to do it:

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In 2007.2 and later releases, the user who owns the submitted changelist can
use the -u flag with p4 change to modify the description field.

       http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.082/user/relnotes.txt

    #118826 **
        'p4 change' has a new '-u' option to allow the owner of a
        submitted change to update its description and/or jobs fields.
        (Bug #1159).

but because of this bug, which has been fixed in 2008.1 and later releases,

    #149573 **
        'p4 change -u' no longer requires both the username and
        workspace of the user to match those of the owner of the
        submitted change. Now only the username needs to match.
        (Bug #25380, #28412)

you might also need to use the -c and -H flags as a workaround in 2007.2.

p4 -c client_name -H host_name change -u changelist#

I hope this solution will serve you well so you do not need to resort to other
approaches. Please give it a try and let me know if it does not work.

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Hi Sam,

There’s not built-in action for the Perforce ‘change’ command, you’ll need to use the Perforce generic action to update the change list. I don’t have a copy of Perforce installed on this machine but the action parameters should be something like:

Perforce Command: change
Command Line Arguments: -u Description:[NEW DESCRIPTION] [CHANGELIST #]

You can find more information on the ‘change’ command from http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.082/manuals/cmdref/change.html

Regards,
Paul.

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Thanks!

The p4 Generic works great. I got this working both with P4 2007.2 and 2008.2


Very slick!!!