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Find changesets

Find changesets using the cm find command in Unity Version Control CLI.
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Find and filter changesets and changeset comments. To retrieve more information in regards to changesets, run the
cm log
command.

Filtering options

The following list displays the different filtering options (
where
) that are available to use with the
cm find changesets
command:
  • attribute
  • attrvalue
  • branch
  • changesetid
  • comment
  • date
  • guid
  • id
  • owner
  • parent
  • repllogid
  • replsrcdate
  • replsrcid
  • replsrcrepository
  • replsrcserver
  • returnparent
Note
The conditions
changesetid
,
date
, and
owner
, correspond to the Name, Creation date, and Created by columns in the Changesets tab of the UVCS desktop application.

Output options

The following list displays the different output options (
--format
) available to use with the
cm find changesets
command:
  • branch
  • changesetid
  • comment
  • date
  • guid
  • id
  • owner
  • parent

cm find changesets examples

Show changeset comments

The following example shows the date and comment for all changesets that belong to the branch
main/scm12800
:
cm find changeset "where branch = 'main/scm12800'" --format="{date} - {comment}"27/05/2013 13:25:53 - Updated output.27/05/2013 13:26:45 - Changed SccPlugin with the new change.27/05/2013 13:35:15 - Added solution.Total: 3

Filter by a specific word

To filter for changeset comments that include a specific word, use the SQL syntax
like
and use the
%
characters for an approximate search:
cm find changeset "where branch = 'main/scm12800' and comment like '%solution%'" --format="{date} - {comment}"27/05/2013 13:35:15 - Added solution.Total: 1

Find replicated changesets

Query changesets by the replication date. For information on how to find the last replication date, refer to replication log.
cm find changeset "where branch='semanticmain' and replsrcdate > '2013/06/17'" --nototal427425 16794 /semanticmain 07/06/2013 11:06:38 violeta codice IntegrateMiryamtask 12838427435 16804 /semanticmain 07/06/2013 19:25:31 violeta codice Changeassemblyversion (0.9.28.0).427436 16805 /semanticmain 07/06/2013 19:54:35 lrodriguez codice Updatemapall

Find the parent of a specific changeset

Use the
returnparent
to get the parent of a specific changeset:
cm find changeset "where changesetid = 16583 and returnparent = 'true'" --nototal423630 16582 /main/scm12800 27/05/2013 13:25:53 roberto codice Updated output.

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