4/3     In "p4 client", modtime/nomodtime sets the file timestamp to
        either the modification time from submitting client or the time that
        the file is fetched.  Is there a way to set the file timestamp to
        the time that the file was submitted, like what ClearCase does?  Thx.
        \_ How is this different from the modtime option? Are you concerned
           about clock skew or timezone differences?
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8/10    Perforce question.  When submitting files, is there a way to tell
        Perforce to verify that the files are actually different before
        allowing them to be submitted?  ClearCase does this automatically.
        Thanks.
        \_ I right-click my pending changelist and select "Revert if unchanged"
           Everything that remains has diffs.  This also makes it easy to
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5/1     what do you use for source code control?
        list of opensource ones: http://www.venge.net/monotone/others.html
        (Thanks for the link danh)
        what is this?:
        cp foo foo.bak: +-
        sccs:
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2/9     I'm starting a personal programming project and I need some revision
        control system.  What would you suggest given that the client and
        server must run on Windows?
        \_ Subversion
           \_ Seconded. Subversion is probably the best revision control
              system I've used. It is as easy to use and maintain as cvs
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10/3    Windows Explorer question: Is it possible to modify the context menu
        (right click) to add a custom action?  I have templates of spreadsheets
        I want to copy quickly to certain folders.  I envision using the
        context menu in this manner: Right-click -> Create Template Here ->
        [template1], [template2], [templateN].  It should have one of those
        right arrows that will expand into another menu from which I can choose
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8/8     How do you make clear case behave simpler, like say CVS. My office
        is using it and it has way too many features and complications, but
        are not going to be switching to CVS anytime soon. We develop using
        Clearcase\ibm eclipse\MQ. -nesim
        \_ Uhm, shouldn't you be asking clearcase this question? You figure
           that the amount you're paying them per seat license you'd get
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2/10    Is clearcase much superior over CVS? I've never used clearcase
        before, only cvs and sourcesafe. I need it for binary files
        only. Does the commercial product offer compelling value?
        Thanks, --williamc
        \_ Clearcase is really ment for the thousand person development
           team with multiple concurrent branches of development on
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11/5    SourceSafe sucks.  Does M$ use it interally themselves?
        \_ Yes and no.  MS bought SS and doesn't try to make it better.
           Same with Rational and ClearCase.  Don't use either.
        \_ What is SourceSafe for?
           \_ Storing and eventually corrupting and losing all your source
              code for a company make/break project.
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6/11    Does anyone have experience with bitkeeper? There is a guy
        at work who thinks that it is the best version control system
        ever and wants us to use it, but I'm just not convinced that
        its orders of magnitude better than cvs and clearcase.
        \_ if you work at transmeta and the "guy at work" is finnish
           and answers the the name of a certain Peanuts character you're
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5/15    In ClearCase 4.2, I want to create a new element bar.c based on the
        latest version of foo.c.  Is there any ClearCase command for this
        other than "mkelem" such that it'll remember that version 1 of bar.c
        comes from the latest foo.c?  Thanks. -- yuen
        \_ There used to be a "clone" feature in the UI. I don't know what
           the cli equiv. is.
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10/7    Anyone here using perforce? How does it compare to cvs?
        \_ It isn't free.  It requires a "bigger" machine to host it.
           It does "more stuff".  It runs on windows and unix.
           \_ I would dispute "bigger". The main advantages of Perforce
             over CVS are 1) real branching and integration 2) speed (try CVS
             with lots of files over different connections) 3) atomic commits
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8/15    Is there a cvs equivalent to the clearcase predecessor diff?
        I can do a cvs status, subtract 1 from the minor version and
        then do a cvs diff -r<version> but I'm looking for something
        built-in.
        \_ How exactly is that not built in?
        \_ If you want to diff your _working_ version to the latest checked
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