[How do I preserve annotations ("blame"?) while copying files to a new project?]

Bump! Hope nobody minds.

[How do I preserve annotations ("blame"?) while copying files to a new project?]

We have a legacy Unity project A. We've started mostly rewriting it from scratch. We created a new project B, into which I am copying some files from A. Both projects live in their respective repositories.

Problem is, I copied files between two repositories outside of Plastic. So now when I do "annotate",  all the legacy code shows under my name, even though I am not the original author.

Questions.

1. Is there any way to restore the names of the original authors? I am happy to use command line and write a script. 

2. In retrospect, could I have copied files differently, in a way that preserved annotations?

3. Where do annotations live, internally?

[Ignore changes in Filesystem Permissions?]

On 8/23/2021 at 5:03 AM, calbzam said:

Carlos, where is this information stored? I don't mind running a simple command line script to undo all files in the changeset for which only permissions have changed.

 

[Rider plugin tries to access non-existent folder on mac]

Since you don't seem to be supporting Rider for the past 3 years, perhaps you'd be willing to open source your Rider plugin? Someone might be willing to bring it up to date. 

[Ignore changes in Filesystem Permissions?]

 I am experiencing this problem, too.

Filesystem permissions changed from NOT_DEFINED to dr-xr-xr-x

 

Most of our team is on Windows, and I am on Mac.  How do I avoid flooding my changesets with irrelevant files changing permissions? 

[Rider plugin tries to access non-existent folder on mac]

Hmm, the blog post was from 2019, so I just concluded the post is obsolete. Would be nice to state otherwise explicitly, for inattentive readers like me. 

So I need to downgrade Rider to 2019. Okay. What's the state of plugin support for Visual Studio? 

 

[How to make two branches identical?]

I don't need to duplicate the history. The history can differ. I want to duplicate the current workspace. Say, the latest 20 changesets in branch A are no good, but branch B is perfect, so I want to ignore those 20 and make the workspaces at branch A and branch B look identical. I don't want to rewrite history.

[How to make two branches identical?]

Sorry about a newbie question. I want to create a changeset on branch /main/irina that's identical to the latest changeset on /main. So that there are no differences between the latest changesets on two branches, and /main remains unchanged. How do I do that? I've tried merge, but that's not what I want.

 

[Rider plugin tries to access non-existent folder on mac]

I've just installed the plugin for Rider 2021.2 on Mac. I tried to go Preferences > Version Control > PlasticSCM  and tried to press the ConfigureClient button. It gives me this: 

 

What's /Applications/macplastic.app? I only have 

 

/Applications/PlasticSCM.app

/Applications/PlasticSCMServer.app