Release Notes

All clients: Fixed 'unable to sort' error working with local changes

You could get the error "Unable to sort because the IComparer.Compare() method returns inconsistent results" trying to check out, checkin, or undo the pending local changes. It happened due to complex dependencies among the local changes when there were locally moved involved. Now it's fixed.

All platforms - Command-line client: Paths described in trigger variables can now include whitespaces.

Previously, plastic variables used in triggers such as PLASTIC_BIN_PATH, WKSPACE_PATH and GLOBAL_CONFIG_PATH were not resolving paths with white spaces. That led to wrong command formats when executing. Now, these paths are being wrapped inside double quotes when needed.

You can have the following scenario:

Have the directory where the Plastic SCM command line client is installed:

C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM\client

And inside it, you are planning to store your triggers in a subfolder, something like:

C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM\client\script\after update\script1.pl

So, you could declare a trigger using the following scheme (in Windows cmd shell, for instance):

cm trigger make after-update myTrigger """@PLASTIC_BIN_PATH\scripts\after update\script1.pl""" --server=localhost:8084

And it will solve the white space in PLASTIC_BIN_PATH to C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM\client when executing the trigger.

Bear in mind that, as the path already has a whitespace ("after update" in the example above), you should add escaped quotes to it to specify the executable because we also support arguments. No extra quotes will be added in this case. Here we were considering cmd shell, so quotes are escaped with an extra double quote.

You can also use commands with arguments and both command paths and arguments will properly resolve white spaces:

In case you have a workspace such as C:\my wkspace you could create a trigger like the following:

cm trigger mk after-update callPython "python @WKSPACE_PATH\script.py @WKSPACE_PATH" --server=localhost:8084

In this case, the whitespaces are going to be inserted in the plastic variable. This trigger will execute python, calling the file named script.py located in your workspace and passing to it an argument which is also resolved to the same path, something like executing:

python "C:\my wkspace\script.py" "C:\my wkspace"

Find below examples of the same two commands to create triggers but in three different shells:

1- Windows CMD:

cm trigger make before-update myTrigger """@PLASTIC_BIN_PATH\scripts\before update\script1.pl"" @WKSPACE_PATH\src\readme.txt" --server=localhost:8084

cm trigger make after-update myTrigger """@PLASTIC_BIN_PATH\scripts\after update\script2.pl""" --server=localhost:8084

2- Windows PowerShell

cm trigger make before-update myTrigger "`"@PLASTIC_BIN_PATH\scripts\before update\script1.pl`" @WKSPACE_PATH\src\readme.txt" --server=localhost:8084

cm trigger make after-update myTrigger "`"@PLASTIC_BIN_PATH\scripts\after update\script2.pl`"" --server=localhost:8084

3- Linux/MacOS bash:

cm trigger make before-update myTrigger ""@PLASTIC_BIN_PATH/scripts/before update/script1.pl" @WKSPACE_PATH/src/readme.txt" --server=localhost:8084

cm trigger make after-update myTrigger ""@PLASTIC_BIN_PATH/scripts/after update/script2.pl"" --server=localhost:8084

All platforms - Server: Fixed slow connection issues

We fixed a bug that caused the server to close connections over SSL if the client did not start the second method call in under 10 seconds from the connection establishment.

This bug was because of a wrong tracking of the connection status from server side and could cause killing long-running operations (such as big check-ins) over slow networks with the error message "An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host".

Command-line client: Fixed null error undoing moved files

The "cm unco" could fail when there are pending moved files to undo. It could fail when the source and the destination directories are different directories, but both are under the same directory. Now it's fixed.