help How to Archive branch with attributes

[Double Hit Games]

Hi guys. Im very noob with plastic and with others too. So, I'm reading an article on the plastic blog, about “how to archive branches", using attribute technique, but I don't understand anything.
Could someone help me to create it step by step?

There are commands to be typed, but I don't even know where to do this. LOL

The article at:
http://blog.plasticscm.com/2019/06/archive-branches-in-plastic-scm.html

I have some branches in my Plastic Client and I want to use attributes to manage branches that are working and that don't need to work anymore. Mostly, I want to hide it in my GUI and show it only if I want to. I think it will give me more control and organization in my project. I will start branches for versions of my applications, like Beta, Release etc, and all the temporary branches used for bug fixes and other things, I will archive, everything that is finished.

 

[calbzam]

Hi,

What is the step where you are locked or you don't understand? I can see the blog post is a very complete guide where it explains it step by step.

Regards,

Carlos.

[JEP]

I really wish this was a feature that was built into Plastic. This is a lot of hassle (including ongoing hassle for each new developer) for something that seems like a very basic quality of life feature.

I feel like the plastic developers may be overlooking how annoying it is because they spend over 90% of their time working on plastic, and so going through this hassle isn't as big a deal for them. But for those of us who are spending less than 5% of our time in plastic and just trying to work on our code, it's more annoying.

If nothing else, I wish you could just filter out branches that haven't had a changeset in a certain amount of time, just like you can filter out changesets on the changesets tab.

[calbzam]

Hi,

The Branch explorer offers different options to customize the branch explorer: create custom branch explorer, show only relevant changesets, use the relayout mode, using custom filters from the branches:

https://www.plasticscm.com/documentation/gui/plastic-scm-version-control-gui-guide#TheExtendedOptionsPanel
 

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If nothing else, I wish you could just filter out branches that haven't had a changeset in a certain amount of time, just like you can filter out changesets on the changesets tab.

 

The date filter should help for this scenario in the "Branch explorer" view, right?

Regards,

Carlos.