[p4] Newbie Question

[jab]

Budget three hours of time without any interruptions.

[At home is fine: run a copy of the two-user/two-workspace server on a 
local Win/NT or Win/2000
machine for this. Just don't mix this experiment with your production 
work.]

Find the tutorial, I believe it's chapter 3 or 4 of the online user 
guide, and work through it.
The command-line version of the tutorial is actually easier to work 
through, even if you don't
see the trees graphically.

Things to have at your fingertips:
	1. Hard copy of user guide
	2. A command that makes recursive directory listings to pass to "p4 -x 
- add".
	    (That command on Unix is "find . -type f -print"; on Windows, it's 
"dir /s /b /a-d".)
	3. The afore-mentioned three hours, which is estimating on the 
high-end. It should
	     be less time.

Avoid the command "p4 depot" (or "p4 depots") until you've used 
Perforce for weeks/months.
It's a more advanced thing that you probably won't need, initially. 
Honest.

	-jab


On Jan 7, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Brooke Gravitt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm sure I'm just not quite understanding the semantics of Perforce, 
> but
> I'm a little confused about getting starting.
>
> I have, for example, 6 different codebases taken from 6 different 
> projects
> in another CM tool. (CCC/Harvest, if anyone cares.)
>
> Perforce was started as "p4d -d -r e:\perforce" on Windows. I can 
> connect
> to the server through the Windows Perforce GUI fine. I just can't see 
> any
> files.
>
> I have 6 different (_deep_) directory structures (containing thousands 
> of
> files) that I placed under the Perforce server's root directory (
> e:\perforce ), and then did:
>
> p4 depot test1
> ....
> p4 depot test6
>
> How do I make the files visible, and ready for versioning? Connecting 
> to
> the GUI gives an error, saying there are no files in the depot.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!!
>
> --Brooke
>
>
>
>
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