[Resolving an evil twin]

Hi,
It seems to be. We asked if they could add a merge option because it can happen frequently with External actors in Unreal 5, but I don't know if they are evaluating this or not.

You can use the interactive resolve in cm merge and do that process automatically (copy the destination folder into the source folder and then commit the merge)

[[Solved] GetChangesetsInfoByNumber error with current PlasticX version]

Any update on this bug? It's a real blocking one, you cannot merge a branch or check history of files. I told everyone to go back to Old Plastic client for now.

[Preventing locking across branches / forking]

If you are using Unreal, the newer Unreal Plastic plugin should help (Check release note of 1.5.0 at https://github.com/PlasticSCM/UEPlasticPlugin/releases). It should notify that a newer version in another branch exists. It adds a bit of delay, but it seems to be helping.

[cm merge fields]

Hi,
I already sent a support ticket about Evil twin merge in PlasticSCM vs Unreal 5 one-file per actor (ticket #31359).

This is a workaround to merge files from two branches when there's no file collisions. I really need to to automate that since there's no way I ask content creator to do manual merge with random folders and filenames (ex: 1\NT\PTHJ3ING96DMZW8M10UG4I.uasset). When there's no collision, there's no real reason to block from merging two folders, that should be built-in in my opinion, but it's not.

Anyway, my the solution works and is live for couple of weeks. I just need all the fields description to support all the use cases.

 

Thanks
Pat

[cm merge fields]

It's not exactly what I'm trying to achieve. Right now, I'm merging the two folders files by taking source and readding destination when the conflicts is not on files. This works well and make it possible to use One file per actor in Unreal 5 with PlasticSCM.

But in any case, is it possible to know about the fields? Is there any documentation about it somewhere? My assumption is that True is Directory vs File, but I wanted to be sure.

 

Thanks,
Pat

[cm merge fields]

Hi,
Yes, exactly, I'm using it in our own tooling as a workaround for Evildirtwin. 

I'm not trying to automate everything, we more specifically the EvilDirTwin. But I want to better display to the user when he needs to do in Plastic UI.

Thanks,
Pat

[cm merge fields]

Hi,
Is it possible to know the list of possible fields that "cm merge" can return when using --machinereadable? It seems to by dynamic based on the conflict type.

For example:

DIR_CONFLICT||EVIL||Evil twin conflict||An item has been added on the source and on the destination with the same name, and they are different items.||Added /Wwise/Actor-Mixer Hierarchy/_TMP.wwu||Added /Wwise/Actor-Mixer Hierarchy/_TMP.wwu||2286698||False||ADD||/Wwise/Actor-Mixer Hierarchy/_TMP.wwu||ADD||/Wwise/Actor-Mixer Hierarchy/_TMP.wwu
FILE_CONFLICT||/Plugins/UPG_OnlineCore/Source/OnlineCore/Private/OnlineManager.cpp||13774||13954||13829||330243

First line, what is the "True" meaning (pos 8)?
Second line, all those numbers?

It would be good to know the possible types and the returned fields. I did not find it with "cm help merge" neither in documentation.

 

Thanks,
Patrice

[Before-Checkin trigger]

Hi,

About the hosting of that script: if you don't have a NAS or something in common for all your users, you can put it in the [plastic-global-config] repository. This will be automatically downloaded to "%localappdata%\plastic4\globalconfig\[the server name]" folder and you can make your trigger refers to that folder. When you update it, people needs to restart their plasticscm client. It's not perfect, but it can do the job maybe.

 

Thanks,

Pat

[cm find current branch?]

cm status --header is not bad too since it returns the last synched changeset at same time too..

[cm history on newly added files]

Hi,

Is there a way to find if a file was added in another branch? I was using "cm find rev", to get the revisions of a file, but this only work if you integrated once the file in the branch. I tried with serverpath, but you need to pass the branchspec. I tried with cm find revisions where item ='', but with no success.

 

Thanks,
Patrice

[Trimming to reduce size of the database]

4 hours ago, David Cañadas said:

That's dope @calbzam!

However the interface is not that friendly compared to other solutions (at least for the documented part). What I would expect of that system (based on the requirements of my DevOps team):

* To be able to provide a maximum number of revisions per file type and/or per file path.

* The Plastic SCM server to take care automatically of archiving data based on the provided setup.

Are there any plans to provide that (or similar) interface?

 

I agree on what David said.

On our side, we need something more like "Keep the last X revisions" and erase the old one. The feature is still interesting if we need to keep the old one. But, our use case is on large raw data that we don't really need a long history.

[Trimming to reduce size of the database]

Hi,
we would really need this feature too for our Raw data repository. Our binary assets can become very large and we don't care about old history (we would keep the last X changeset). Personally, I like the comment above on Perforce, I think it would work for us.

Do you have an ETA?

Thanks,
Pat

[Gluon preview for blender files]

It's strange since I have Blender preview by default without doing anything.

 

But I'm not able to use the Preview tools... it's just not displaying anything and no debug logs. When using the same command lines in cmd.exe, it works, but inside Gluon it fails to load (Irfan or ImageMagick)

[Preventing locking across branches / forking]

Hi,
I do it here by having a "before-clientcheckout" to warn the user if the file version he has locally is not the latest across all other branches. The user can decide to work locally or not. And I have another trigger "before-clientcheckin" that blocks if it's not latest.

I use "cm hist rev:thefile" to get the latest revision on a given file in all branches and "cm ls thefile --tree-br:/mybranch" to get the local file revision... then you compare the two. I skip if it's a new file or not in the lock file list.

[Plastic Trigger hide error message]

Hi,
Great point, I have the same problem here where I do a custom popup asking to the user to confirms that he really wants to update the file X... so if he says "no", I return 1 and it shows an error popup... It would be nice to be able to return another code or disable it.

[Installer optionfile]

Ok perfect, I will give a try.

[Installer optionfile]

Hi,

I'm looking at automatic plasticscm deployment on my company PCs and I notice that there's a --optionfile that I can use, but I could not find any doc about it. I was curious to see if we could preconfigure more features with it (ex: gluon vs classic).

--optionfile <optionfile>                           Installation option file
                                                                   Default: 

 

Also, if it's already installed, will it update silently keeping the current user preferences (Ex: if I disable Server components but someone have it installed)?

Thanks,

Patrice