[p4] Re: nothing better about PVCS?

[Chuck Karish]

At 07:00 PM 1/22/00 , Scott Blachowicz wrote:
> > >One of our engineers works remotely over a slow connection, and finds
> > >it takes a long time to do the first 'integrate' when starting a branch.
> >
> > I've found that the 'compress' setting in the 99.2 client
> > makes a noticeable difference over slow connections.
>
>Then, if you're doing a minor branch that does everything (e.g. a
>release branch), it's got to re-download all the files even if you
>have local copies that are the same.  We haven't made much use of
>branching yet. I suppose I could script up something that does local
>copies of files (after making sure they are the right revisions) then
>makes use of 'p4 flush' to fool the server into believing that I have
>the files, but it seems a pain...
>
>Scott.Blachowicz at seaslug.org
>
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