[p4] how can we lock the branch

[Chuck Karish]

At 10:49 AM 8/6/2002 -0700, Andrew Nguyen wrote:
>Perforce grant users permission from "p4 protect".  Is there a way to automate at certain time to "lock" the branch.  For instants, we would like to lock out the codebase at 3:00am, so people cannot submit any job after that.  

Several people have suggested 'p4 protect -o | sed <something or other> |  p4 protect -i'.

This works fine,  It's a bit of a chore to automatically unlock the line
in the morning, though.

I'd change that <something or other> to print the lines that give
write access to the the branch to a file.  To unlock, run a script
that reads the protect settings and pastes that file back in.


Chuck Karish            karish at well.com           (415) 317-0182