codeswarm help: Anyone have experience setting up codeswarm for use with perforce activity log?

Question

I've been trying to setup codeswarm for kicks at work using the activity log generated by our perforce depot. I am however running into some troubles following the guide/wiki on the google-code site and was wondering if maybe anyone had experiences with setting it up for a perforce server they could share?

I am running into UTF-8 encoding issues as well as it's taking a bloody long time I believe. My activity log generated by the python script is 65k. I have seen videos of other seemingly large projects so I cannot tell if this is the cause.

Any help appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

I just ran into similar issues with runtime. My interest is in visualizing only the most recent development cycle for my company's large project, which consisted of approximately 10000 Perforce changelists.

Looking at convert_logs.py, I saw it was making a direct call to p4 -G changelists which would dump the entire revision history at considerable cost. p4 changes takes an argument -m to limit the number of changelists returned. So I simply edited line 347 of convert_logs.py from

changelists = run_marshal('p4 -G changelists "' + opts.perforce_path + '"')

to

changelists = run_marshal('p4 -G changes -m 10000 "' + opts.perforce_path + '"')

This helped immensely with reducing the runtime.

If anyone is feeling ambitious, I'd suggest refactoring convert_logs to include something like a --perforce-args option where this and any other options could be specified.