[#IDEABKL-3830] Changelist being called "Version" in perforce, misused.

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Changelist being called "Version" in perforce, misused.

Created: 18 Jul 05 18:37 Updated: 03 Nov 06 20:10

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Version Control Integration. Perforce

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The Revision number is more useful in Perforce than what you call the "version" number, which is actually the changelist number (and should be called so in the History view). When doing comparisons with another revision, you should use the revision number in the diff window headers, not the changelist ("version") numbers.

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Erb - 25 Aug 05 00:59

suggested fix

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Erb - 31 Oct 06 20:13

Here's the fix based on 6077 build

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Dmitry Jemerov - 01 Nov 06 13:36

I'm not sure if this change is really a good idea. If a file has been branched, it will have multiple revisions that have the same revision number. If you, for example, do a diff between them, the code will show "Differences between revision 2 and revision 2", which is confusing. On the other hand, the changelist number identifies a file version uniquely.

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Erb - 01 Nov 06 18:11

Perhaps do both. After all, If I am comparing 2 revisions in the same branch, this issue does not affect me.

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Erb - 01 Nov 06 18:13

Or maybe what you show can depend on whether Show Branches is selected? (I know, I'm complicating things). At any rate, I still think that, in the scenario you mention, showing the branch name and revision would be more useful than the changelist number.