Adding SCM change data provides important information about the authors and change dates of your code. This information can be utilized for automatic owner assignment and is displayed in Coverity Connect. SCM change data includes the following for each line of the source code:
- date - The date that the changed code was checked into the SCM system.
- revision - The revision number corresponding the check-in of the changed code. See SCM revision format for more information.
- author - The username of the user who checked the code in. Author is limited to a maximum of 1024 characters.
Coverity provides several tools that enable you to extract and import accurate and effective change data from your SCM. SCM change data is only maintained for files that appear in the emit as a result of being used in the build. If a file is no longer used, the SCM change data is discarded and will not be retained in the event that a new build starts to reference the file.