Perforce integration

[Chris]

Re: Perforce integration

We're working on a native Linux version of Beyond Compare, but we haven't done any testing of BC 2.5.2 with Wine on Linux.

Re: Perforce integration

I am using it in Linux, installed using wine.
The start up speed is very low.
Set P4DIFF doesn't work at all. Maybe I should have a shell script as your wrapper.

To get it to work for diffing two files in the command line, you will want to use the set command. Something like:

p4 set -s P4DIFF=C:/Progra~1/BC/BC2.exe

If you have beta or if you are reading this after BC3 comes out, You'll need to make a wrapper script to enable command line merging because P4 passes the arguments in an order different from what BC expects.
I believe the wrapper script should basically be:
<path>\bc3.exe %2 %3 %1 %4

And the p4 command would be:
p4 set P4MERGE=<path_to_wrapper.bat>

[DEinspanjer]

Re: Perforce integration

To get it to work for diffing two files in the command line, you will want to use the set command. Something like:

p4 set -s P4DIFF=C:/Progra~1/BC/BC2.exe

If you have beta or if you are reading this after BC3 comes out, You'll need to make a wrapper script to enable command line merging because P4 passes the arguments in an order different from what BC expects.
I believe the wrapper script should basically be:
<path>\bc3.exe %2 %3 %1 %4

And the p4 command would be:
p4 set P4MERGE=<path_to_wrapper.bat>

[Chris]

Re: Perforce integration

Instructions for using BC as an external diff tool are listed at:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?c=kb_vcs.php

The instructions we have for Perforce are for the GUI. I'm not sure if Perforce allows you to specify an external tool for command line use.

My request for perforce integration is quite simple. Just to show the difference in beyond compare
when I run the command p4 diff <file_name>.
Seems that beyond compare doesn't support this. Any one has solution?