p4 filelog

Perforce 2003.2 Command Reference


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Print detailed information about files' revisions.

p4 [g-opts] filelog [-i] [-l] [-t] [-m maxrev] file...

p4 filelog describes each revision of the files provided as arguments. At least one file or file pattern must be provided as an argument.

The output lists one line per revision in reverse chronological order. The format of each line is:

rev

chnum

action

date

user

client

type

description

where:

rev is the revision number;
chnum is the number of the submitting changelist;
action is the operation the file was open for: add, edit, delete, branch, or integrate;
date is the submission date (by default), or date and time (if the -t flag is used).
user is the name of the user who submitted the revision;
client is the name of the client workspace from which the revision was submitted;
type is the type of the file at the given revision; and
descrip is the first 30 characters of the corresponding changelist's description.

If the action is integrate, Perforce displays a second line, formatted as

integration-action partner-file

See p4 integrated for a full description of integration actions.

`-i`	Follow file history across branches. If a file was created by integration via `p4 integrate`, Perforce describes the file's revisions and displays the revisions of the file from which it was branched (back to the branch point of the original file).
`-l`	List the full description of each revision.
`-t`	Display the time as well as the date.
`-m maxrev`	List only the first `maxrev` changes per file output.
`g-opts`	See the Global Options section.

Can File Arguments Use Revision Specifier?	Can File Arguments Use Revision Range?	Minimal Access Level Required
Yes	No	`list`

Since p4 filelog's output can be quite large when called with highly non-restrictive file arguments (for example, p4 filelog //depot/... will print the revision history for every file in the depot), it may be subject to a maxresults limitation as set in p4 group.
If both the -i and the -m maxrev flags are used, and a branch is encountered within the most recent maxrev revisions of the file, the most recent maxrev revisions of the file prior to the branch point are also displayed. p4 filelog -i follows branches down to a depth of 50 levels, which should be more than sufficient for any site.
Old revisions of temporary object files (file type modifier +S, or tempobj) are displayed with an action of purge.

`p4 filelog //depot/proj1/...`	Display the revision history for every file under the depot's `proj1` directory.
`p4 filelog file1.c file1.h`	Show the revision history for files `file1.c` and `file1.h`, which reside locally in the current working directory.

To read additional information about each file	`p4 files`
To display file information in a format suitable for scripts	`p4 fstat`
To view a list of open files	`p4 opened`
To view a list of files you've synced to your client workspace	`p4 have`