[p4] Help with Mac client?

[Viktor Haag]

George Van Treeck writes:
 > It's been a long time since I used a Mac.  However, I suspect
 > that the scope of the environment variable is to a single
 > process (and thus, not visible to other processes, e.g., p4).

I'm sorry, George. I don't know what this means exactly. But all
the same, I don't understand how this could be: I define three
environment variables in the startup file, and as far as I can
tell, two of the three are read properly by the p4 user command
tool. It's the third that isn't. 

Furthermore, the behaviour I do get leads me to believe that it's
passing a value of some kind (since when I do 'echo P4CLIENT' it
spits back the value I provided in the startup file); but for
some reason, the Perforce server is not recognizing the value as
genuine.

Since if I do a p4 client -o with the client name, I assume that
the server *can* recognize the client I specify, and so there
must be something hincky with the perforce user command set (or
at a lower level, the MPW shell) passing the variables value in
to the perforce server.

Does anyone else have OS9 with the latest software updates
available online from Apple, the latest version of the Perforce
user command set, and the latest GM version of MPW (3.5.3 I
believe) working?

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Greetings,

During my evaluation of Perforce I have come up with some questions.

If anyone can supply me with actual numbers, I would be appreciative.  I am
curious how long it takes to run p4 verify on a large system.  How long
does it take to run checkpoint?  Of course, these numbers are useless
without such data as how many files you have and how many users you have?

What is the total size of your db.* files?  I read that the database
requires .5K per user per file.  With 200+ users and ~300K files you get
200 * 300,000 * .5K of data.  Perforce is _very_ fast in my tests with two
users and 1000 files, but does the performance scale well?

Has anyone had problems with data loss/corruption?  Is the database used a
Perforce creation?  Is there any way to run queries directly against the
data?

How hard is the tool to administrate?  How hard is it to train users on
Perforce?  Are less technical users like graphics designers or
documentation writers able to use Perforce?

How well does Peforce work with remote users?

Any other good or bad things that I should consider?

Thanks,

Mr. XML

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Subject: Re: [p4] Feature Request: Resolve edited against original
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This has nothing to do with the tool - you just have problems to get the original out of the repository.

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From: rickm at vsl.com on 17/07/2000 22:04

To:   Steven.Cogorno at eng.sun.com
cc:   jorg.schaible at db.com; perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject:  Re: [p4] Feature Request: Resolve edited against original



On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Steve Cogorno wrote:

> Jorg Schaible said:
> > sometimes if you have changed some files, you'll notice, that only some
> > parts of your changes are really useful. Now you would like to merge your
> > current edited versions with the original versions of the files, but there
> > seems no way to schedule a resolve action performing the merge.
>
> I agree with you that this functionality would be really useful.
> Here's what I do currently:
>
> 1. p4 diff mychangedfile > HOLD
> 2. p4 revert mychangedfile
> 3. p4 edit mychangedfile
> 4. vi HOLD
>    - remove diff blocks that I don't want
> 5. patch mychangedfile < HOLD
> 6. p4 submit mychangedfile
>
>
> I tried to streamline this by using patch -r, but it never seemed to work.
> It would be nice to get this in P4 though.

Just curious - have you ever tried merge tools such as emacs/emerge or
tkdiff? You just cruise through and select one version or another for each
diff block.

...RickM...

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