Annoyance, colored diffs in perforce

February 1, 2010

Quick one-off here, let’s begin.

Git has nice colored diffs, like this:

Perforce does not:

A simple script can remedy this:

Here’s the script:

Simply drop it somewhere in your $PATH and use it like so:

p4 diff | p4c.rb

You can find it in my one-offs directory (it’s called p4c.rb). We recently switched from subversion to perforce (definitely not my choice, I pushed for git), and so far it’s awful. I am definitely not a fan. This makes it a little better.

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posted in color, git, perforce, ruby, terminal by Lee

7 Comments to "Annoyance, colored diffs in perforce"

  1. bartman wrote:

    > We recently switched from subversion to perforce (definitely not my choice, I pushed for git).

    Hehe… I had the same thing happen to me recently. My solution was to start using git-p4, as I had been using git-svn before. Give it a try, it’s actually pretty good… albeit slower then git-svn.

  2. bartman wrote:

    Oh, one more thing.

    Since your blog is titled :wq … I imagine you use vim. Why not let vim color your diffs?

    p4 diff | vim -R –

    I keep this handy shell function around:

    v() { $@ | vim -R – ; }

    So I can simplify the above as:

    v p4 diff

    … well, if I actually ever wanted to run p4 directly :)

  3. David wrote:

    If you want it even closer to a git diff, use unified mode:
    p4 diff -du

  4. Eric wrote:

    Set the P4DIFF ennvironment variable to colordiff… a tool which colorizes diff output. For example:

    export P4DIFF=colordiff; p4 diff -dU 5

  5. tfi fridays wrote:

    I am starting to take my feet on associate packages too, so this text is excellent place to begin! Shared it on Stumbleupon and submitted on Digg

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  7. Jason wrote:

    Thanks, very handy.

 
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