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c4 -- searches for changes (like CVS), import file trees
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<a href="http://www.c-side.com/">Neil Russell</a>
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<dt><b>Synopsis:</b></dt>
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Import or re-import whole file trees with correct add/edit/delete
operations;&nbsp;&nbsp;Search for modified/new/removed files
and do the correct
edit/add/delete operations (inspired by CVS).
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<dt><b>Description:</b></dt>
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<b>C4</b> was originally created to give <b>p4</b> a CVS feel, by allowing
perforce clients to have writable files, and have <b>c4</b> locate
changed files in a way similar to CVS.
&nbsp;&nbsp;This has been expanded
to correctly find arbitrary changes between the current top of
tree and the client so that whole trees can be imported.
&nbsp;&nbsp;This is routinely used to import updates to
external source, including
updates that can remove/rename whole directories of files.
&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C4</b> provides a control file that is placed at the top of
each client to set environment variables, such as <code>P4PORT</code> and
<code>P4CLIENT</code>
(<b>p4</b> now provides this also).
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<b>C4</b> is not public domain; it is provided free of charge under
a license similar to the Berkeley UNIX license,
such as that used in FreeBSD.
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<a href="ftp://ftp.perforce.com/pub/perforce/contrib/misc/c4-src-1.6.tar.gz">
FTP source code from Perforce.
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  Copyright &copy; 1997 -- 2000 Neil Russell, 
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# Change User Description Committed
#1 1985 Sean Nolan my initial branch
//guest/perforce_software/utils/c4/index.html
#3 276 Neil Russell C4 - small bug fixed; updated to version 1.6
*  We are now a little more intelligent about what happens if
   there is a merge conflict between the local client and the
   head of the tree, and also about trying to do a refresh and
   a sync on the same file.
#2 223 Neil Russell C4 - small bug fixed; updated to version 1.5
#1 159 Neil Russell C4 integrated into //public/perforce/utils/c4.
 This is version 1.4
of C4, ready for release.
//guest/neil_russell/c4/index.html
#2 158 Neil Russell C4's index.html updated.
#1 132 Neil Russell C4 submitted to branched copy (almost ready for 1.4 release).