[p4] Re: preventing use of same client on 2 different computers

[Scott Blachowicz]

Stephen Vance <steve at vance.com> wrote:

> I have only found one situation in which this is not a good recommendation,
> and that is portability builds of a tentative fix for which exposure by
> submission is not appropriate (shared branch, no branch, etc.).

I use it like this...I have 3 systems. On one system, I do release builds.
On another system I do debug builds (and debugging). The third system, I use
primarily for source browsing, editing (& email & PIM & WWW ...). I've got
things setup so that the same client "root" points to the same set of files on
all 3 systems. Then, I use the "P4CONFIG" file stuff to specify which client
I'm in.

So, I've got 3 perforce clients (one for each system) and I can run 'p4
edit', 'p4 sync', etc on any of the systems against any of my 3 p4
client source trees.  It seems to work well for me.  This is all in a
homogenous environment, so I don't have to worry about the
cross-platform differences in file systems and such.

Scott.Blachowicz at seaslug.org