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    <p>While I'm not sure I have a satisfactory answer on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4620312/what-is-a-one-sentence-explanation-of-how-accurev-works">my other Accurev question</a>, I believe I'm starting to understand the issue I'm seeing with Accurev diffs.</p> <p>The flow is something like this:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Developer A</strong> makes some changes for bug 1, promote.</li> <li><strong>Developer A</strong> makes some changes for bug 2, promote.</li> <li><strong>Developer B</strong> reviews <strong>Developer A</strong>'s changes for bug 1 and sends it back for further changes.</li> <li><strong>Developer C</strong> reviews <strong>Developer A</strong>'s changes for bug 2 and approves it, additional promotion.</li> <li><strong>Developer A</strong> makes more changes for bug 1, promote.</li> <li><strong>Developer C</strong> reviews <strong>Developer A</strong>'s changes for bug 1. </li> </ol> <p>The last step is where I perceive the breakage. Developer C cannot, in any rational way, see all the changes related to bug 1, even though every transaction/version (whatever Accurev calls them) is associated with that issue id.</p> <p>If I do diff against basis I get all of the bug 2 changes as well as everything else that's been promoted. Multiply that times 30 developers and it's a nightmare.</p> <p>It gets real messy if there were overlaps and merge resolution, but lets assume, for the moment, that attribution doesn't get wrong except in that case... even if I have seen it do otherwise, it might just be a misunderstanding.</p> <p>Anyway, assuming that all promotes were "clean" and (as I understand them) new transactions are "alias" transactions of each developers "keep" transactions.</p> <p><strong>How do I view combined diffs of the two transactions?</strong></p> <p>Specifically the transactions in step 1 and step 5 above. There will be two transactions, and I want only the changes made in those transactions and <em>only</em> those transactions. Ideally, a nicely formatted or GUI tool diff that works recursively (not on individual files, the whole thing).</p> <p>Note, valid answers may be "You're doing it wrong," but should include constructive suggestions of what to change such as "Do your reviews in the developer's workspace," or similar. I suspect we might just be using it wrong.</p>
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