[p4] How to make a clientspec which syncs only to a given tag

[William Deegan]

On 8/21/06, Stephen Vance <steve at vance.com> wrote:
>
>  Sorry, Bill. There is no way to make a client spec that will always sync to
> the same revision specifications. That functionality is only in the sync
> command. The client spec only specifies the mapping relationship between the
> workspace and the repository, not the actual revision selection.

O.k. so thats something which can be done with CVS and Clearcase, but not
with perforce.
Bummer.

-Bill


>  Steve
>
>
>  William Deegan wrote:
>  On 8/17/06, briancolfer at comcast.net <briancolfer at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>  I know what you mean default sync behavior would get a labeled version. But
> this doesn't exclude the ability to still sync an arbitrary version.
>
>  So p4 sync would always sync to label XYZ.
> But if I did a p4 sync @10000 it would sync to that changelist?
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
>  Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "William Deegan" <bdbaddog at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:05:20
> To:briancolfer at comcast.net, perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] How to make a clientspec which syncs only to a given tag
>
>
>
>  So it would be a read only client?
>
>  Well the idea is the client would always have only files with that label.
> I could move the label, and syncing would bring it up to date.
>
> In this case say for building Version 1.x of a tool.
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: "William Deegan" <bdbaddog at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:29:39
> To:perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] How to make a clientspec which syncs only to a given tag
>
> Greetings,
>
> Is there a way to make a clientspec with a tag in it.
>
> //depot/blah/... at MY_LABEL //bill/blah/...
>
> So this client would stay synced to the label?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
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