Perforce blame

Question

Is there an equivalent of svn\'s blame for Perforce on the command line? p4 annotate doesn\'t display usernames -- only changeset numbers (without ancestor history!

Answer 1

I use a small script for blaming

#!/bin/bash

FILE="$1"
LINE="$2"

p4 annotate -cq "${FILE}" | sed "${LINE}q;d" | cut -f1 -d: | xargs p4 describe -s | sed -e '/Affected files/,$d'

you can hook it to some of the editors that will pass the file name and line.

There's a little more complex version here.