Perforce - How to get the list of files that have been modified locally?

Question

I am looking for a perforce command to get the list of the files that have been modified locally and "not" checked-in to the repository.

I understand that I "should" get the list of modified files in Pending changelist, but there are scenarios when I don't get to see a modified file in that list. And then on "manually" checking out a file and doing a diff i realize the difference.

Is there any command that could check all the files in a given folder and provide me a list of files that are not same as there state in the repository?

I tried "p4 sync", but that did not work.

Thanks for your interest.

Endoparasite

Don't edit files without adding them to a changelist and this (and other) problems won't happen. – Glary

That's sometimes not an option: assume the lost of connection with the server. – Fir

Answer 1

Try

p4 diff -f -sa

(see manual for further details)

Fleeting

Very helpful. In general, all I needed to see was that it was associated with "diff" and that was enough to find it in p4v as well. – Quinones

Thanks [+10]. is there a way to make it faster to execute this command? equivalent of git [git status -s .] was supper fast than this. – Balderdash

@chandpriyankara: git status doesn't compare against the remote server - git diff origin/branchname would be more equivalent... – Fleeting

I get an error Files(s) not on client. How to resolve it? I have set the client. – Garaway

@Garaway I would suggest asking a separate question – Fleeting

Well the error came while executing this command. Anyway I have resolved it. Was setting a wrong client name. – Garaway

Answer 2

I use "p4 revert -n ./..."

where

-n

List the files that would be reverted without actually performing the revert.

This lets you make sure the revert does what you think it does before actually reverting the files.

Warfare

This sounds potentially very dangerous O.O – Howarth

Answer 3

In the recent versions of Perforce, try "p4 reconcile -e"

see: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/r12.1/manuals/cmdref/reconcile.html

It certainly takes its time though (not very fast).

Conjunction

I'd recommend not to run that without thinking twice, as it also adds untracked files. – Russian

To list the status, without actually opening files for add/edit/delete, specify 'reconcile -n' or use 'p4 status' – Shoup

Answer 4

I think, the modified files are submitted locallay (Otherwise, p4 opened ./... will help to find)

If files are already submitted to local perforce and still want to know which all are modified..

1. p4 changes -m 5 ./... (Should give changes lists)
2. p4 integrate -n ./... //server/code/base/... (This should list the files to be integrated to mainline.

Amathist

Answer 5

I am new to Perforce, but below command works for this situation p4 status This shows all files that are not part of repository but present in depot

Electrophone

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