Perforce diff file against a specific changelist

Question

Is there a way to quickly diff a file(edited in my current work area) to same file submitted in an earlier change list in perforce ?

Accepted Answer

Yes, you can specify any revision of the depot file to diff against. For example, if that 'earlier change list' was change 1742, you can simply do:

```
p4 diff myFile.txt //depot/path/to/myFile.txt@1742
```

There are lots of ways to specify the desired revision of the file in the depot. Run

```
p4 help revisions
```

for all the details, or see: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/filespecs.html

Solution