Release Notes

All platforms - Plastic, Gluon: Pending Changes will now fly when you have files with timestamp but not content changes.

Many Unreal and Unity users face this issue: their IDEs modify timestamps of files "randomly" but not content. Plastic finds them as changed.

Then they check this preference in Plastic: "Check the content to determine files as changed, not only timestamp" and the fake changes disappear but... at a cost. Pending Changes starts getting slower and slower because it has to calculate the hash of each "fake change".

Now this is fixed because Pending Changes (on GUI, CLI, plugins, everywhere) will update the timestamp of its metadata to avoid having to rehash next time.

From now on, fresh installs of Plastic SCM Team or Enterprise editions will be packed with a 5 days free trial license for 5 users (before this version, the free trial license only allowed 1 user).

Windows, Plastic: More improvements in the prototype of the upcoming Code Review system.

We removed the initial dialog to create the code review. Now it will be created directly and users will be able to edit anything (title for now) in the code review window.

As we already announced, it is not yet functional but you can give it a try if you start your Plastic this way:

plastic --codereview

And then go to create, edit and delete a Code Review.

More improvements really soon :-)

All platforms: We improved the error message you get when you try to undo some locally moved files but their original directory cannot be found. This usually happens because you aren't allowing plastic to detect locally deleted directories, so the client can't restore them. The error message now suggests you to enable deleted item detection.

For instance, let's say you transform this workspace tree:

 /a
 `- /b (1)
     |- fileA.txt (2)
     `- /c
         `- fileC.txt (3)

Into this:

 /a
 `- /x (1) (LM from /a/b/c)
     |- fileB.txt (2) (LM from /a/x/fileA.txt)
     |- fileA.txt (3) (LM from /a/x/c/fileC.txt)
     `- /c (private)

/a/b is detected as locally deleted in this scenario.

At that point, if you run 'cm undo --moved -r' the client can't restore the moved files because directory /a/b can't be found (it's detected as locally deleted). You'd need to include the --deleted argument.

In the GUI you'd normally get a dependencies warning before the undo; however, if you don't check the "Show deleted files and directories" option in the "What to show" tab of the Pending Changes view, the operation can't properly calculate the dependencies and it will fail.

All platforms - Plastic, Gluon: When diffing from the history view, when the loaded revision was the right revision, the diff was not editable. Now we detect that case, and make it editable.

All platforms - Command line client: We improved the error message generated when 'cm undo' can't undo a change because there is a dependency. It now advises you to include the depended upon item in the set of paths passed to the command.