Hi, I had a pending changelist in my workspace. By mistake I reverted one of the files by reverting to depot. Eclipse wiped off the local history. I am not sure if perforce keeps any history for pending changelists. Could someone tell me if it is possible to recover such file. Thanks Nayn
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The simple answer (to my knowledge) is "no". Perforce doesn't keep a history for (non-submitted) changelists.
Unless you happen to be on a noperating system that offers snapshots (or your file-server does), you are out of luck.
jhwist
2010-05-19 10:55:34
Yeah, I'm out of luck. I'm on Red Hat Linux which does not have snapshots. Thanks
Nayn
2010-05-19 12:47:27
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Drive snapshots are your best bet to prevent this in the future. For my personal non important projects, I use a Git for checkins; but dropbox for easy multi-machine work and snapshotting of non checked in code (even to local repo)
wom
2010-05-19 15:13:55
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Another thing you might try for the future is to get in the habit (e.g., by defining a local alias) of always using 'p4 revert -a'. It would be nice if 'p4 revert -a' had been the default, and you had needed to pass a special flag to indicate that you wanted to revert a file that you had locally changed, but that's not the way it currently is, unfortunately.
Bryan Pendleton
2010-05-19 16:02:19