[p4] Strategy for tracking 3rd-party packages

[Mats Nilsson]

Hi

> That is the way perforce works since the branches are not 
> directly related
> to each other (happy to go into more details if required).

If you don't mind, please. But I'd guess this has to do with avoiding
repeated merge problems.
I've skimmed through the documentation, but all I see about "p4
integrate -I" is sweeping statements such as

     ... "this allows p4 integrate to deal with files where the source
and 
          target files are not directly related by branching."

If you have additional pointers to docs with more substantial
information, I'd be very grateful.

> Using -i is not a
> big issue (especially with the new release 2003.2), and 
> should be set up in
> the branch spec you use for these things to use indirect 
> branching for that
> branch.

So p4 integrate -i equals "enable baseless", while -I is not accessible
from p4win.

Good to know ;-/

Mats