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There is a c file in a source code repository(maintained by perforce) I am working on. Many people have made changes over time in that file. There is a while loop written inside that file. I want to know the author who has first introduced this while loop. If I use p4annotate then it is showing me some author who first removed this loop and later again added that loop. I mean he is not the first author of that while loop. Is there any way to know first author of that piece of code?










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    Use the -a flag to p4 annotate

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There is a c file in a source code repository(maintained by perforce) I am working on. Many people have made changes over time in that file. There is a while loop written inside that file. I want to know the author who has first introduced this while loop. If I use p4annotate then it is showing me some author who first removed this loop and later again added that loop. I mean he is not the first author of that while loop. Is there any way to know first author of that piece of code?










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    Use the -a flag to p4 annotate

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There is a c file in a source code repository(maintained by perforce) I am working on. Many people have made changes over time in that file. There is a while loop written inside that file. I want to know the author who has first introduced this while loop. If I use p4annotate then it is showing me some author who first removed this loop and later again added that loop. I mean he is not the first author of that while loop. Is there any way to know first author of that piece of code?










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There is a c file in a source code repository(maintained by perforce) I am working on. Many people have made changes over time in that file. There is a while loop written inside that file. I want to know the author who has first introduced this while loop. If I use p4annotate then it is showing me some author who first removed this loop and later again added that loop. I mean he is not the first author of that while loop. Is there any way to know first author of that piece of code?







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    Use the -a flag to p4 annotate

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    Use the -a flag to p4 annotate

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Use the -a flag to p4 annotate

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Use the -a flag to p4 annotate

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Options to p4 annotate that might be useful:





  • p4 annotate file#REV starts the annotation at an earlier revision, so you could go back to the revision before the loop was deleted and see who'd last added it as of that revision.


  • p4 annotate -a file shows all of the lines of the file, including those that have been deleted, so you'll see the original version of the while loop.


  • p4 annotate -I file traces the origin of individual lines through merge operations from other files.


All of these options can be combined, so you can do things like p4 annotate -a -I file#START,#END to get detailed information (including merge sources) about all the lines added to the file between two points in time.






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    Options to p4 annotate that might be useful:





    • p4 annotate file#REV starts the annotation at an earlier revision, so you could go back to the revision before the loop was deleted and see who'd last added it as of that revision.


    • p4 annotate -a file shows all of the lines of the file, including those that have been deleted, so you'll see the original version of the while loop.


    • p4 annotate -I file traces the origin of individual lines through merge operations from other files.


    All of these options can be combined, so you can do things like p4 annotate -a -I file#START,#END to get detailed information (including merge sources) about all the lines added to the file between two points in time.






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      Options to p4 annotate that might be useful:





      • p4 annotate file#REV starts the annotation at an earlier revision, so you could go back to the revision before the loop was deleted and see who'd last added it as of that revision.


      • p4 annotate -a file shows all of the lines of the file, including those that have been deleted, so you'll see the original version of the while loop.


      • p4 annotate -I file traces the origin of individual lines through merge operations from other files.


      All of these options can be combined, so you can do things like p4 annotate -a -I file#START,#END to get detailed information (including merge sources) about all the lines added to the file between two points in time.






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        Options to p4 annotate that might be useful:





        • p4 annotate file#REV starts the annotation at an earlier revision, so you could go back to the revision before the loop was deleted and see who'd last added it as of that revision.


        • p4 annotate -a file shows all of the lines of the file, including those that have been deleted, so you'll see the original version of the while loop.


        • p4 annotate -I file traces the origin of individual lines through merge operations from other files.


        All of these options can be combined, so you can do things like p4 annotate -a -I file#START,#END to get detailed information (including merge sources) about all the lines added to the file between two points in time.






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        Options to p4 annotate that might be useful:





        • p4 annotate file#REV starts the annotation at an earlier revision, so you could go back to the revision before the loop was deleted and see who'd last added it as of that revision.


        • p4 annotate -a file shows all of the lines of the file, including those that have been deleted, so you'll see the original version of the while loop.


        • p4 annotate -I file traces the origin of individual lines through merge operations from other files.


        All of these options can be combined, so you can do things like p4 annotate -a -I file#START,#END to get detailed information (including merge sources) about all the lines added to the file between two points in time.







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