[p4] Recursive add on windows problems

[Brad Holt]

Thanks for the tips everyone.  I was trying to avoid the GUI's as I
assumed that they were going to be too unwieldy, and would be more
trouble.  Turns out that trying to do this with scripting was more
trouble than it was worth, though it just bothered me that I could not
get it to work.

You are right.  The P4V and P4Win UIs will work if I keep the
changelists smaller.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bennett, Patrick [mailto:Patrick.Bennett at inin.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:52 AM
To: Smith, Jeff; Weintraub, David; Brad Holt; Perforce Users
Subject: RE: [p4] Recursive add on windows problems

P4Win does this as well.  You can drag and drop directories into it, so
if you're view is set to 'Local view of client tree' you can drag a
directory from the left pane to the pending changelist pane.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Smith, Jeff
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:21 PM
> To: Weintraub, David; Brad Holt; Perforce Users
> Subject: Re: [p4] Recursive add on windows problems
> 
> Another solution would be to simply use P4V which allows you 
> to do a recursive add of a directory.  You right click on the 
> directory and it will add everything in the entire structure. 
>  Just one of the features I have come to like about P4V! 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> Weintraub, David
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:28 AM
> To: Brad Holt; Perforce Users
> Subject: Re: [p4] Recursive add on windows problems
> 
> 
> Just curious, shouldn't the command be:
> 
>     C:\> dir /s /b /a-d | p4 -x - add
>  
> And not:
> 
>     C:\> dir /s /b /a-d | p4 -x add
> 
> The extra dash after the "-x" tells p4 to use STDIN as the 
> list for files to push to the "add" command. Could this be 
> the problem? Doesn't sound like it since the "add" seems to 
> be working.
> 
> What are the files that Perforce is complaining about? What 
> is their name via the "dir" command? What name is in the 
> changelist? What name is being shown if you do use p4win in 
> both the file tree and the changelist? What is the resulting 
> command shown in the p4win log?
> 
> You might have better luck with the "for" command if you have 
> "command extensions" turned on (Are you using Windows XP?)
> 
> For more info on command extensions, see:
> <http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/a
> ll/proddoc
> s/en-us/cmd.mspx?mfr=true> or try <http://snipurl.com/vdyv>.
> 
> Anyway try this command:
> 
>    C:\> for /r %i in (*) do p4 add %i
> 
> This will use the "for" command to go through the file tree.
> 
> You might also try this too:
> 
>    C:\> for /r %i in (*) do p4 add %~fi
> 
> See if you get the same result as you would if you used "dir".
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Brad Holt
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:04 PM
> To: Perforce Users
> Subject: [p4] Recursive add on windows problems
> 
> This one will probably sound basic, but it is giving me problems.
> 
> I have a pile of about 500,000 files that need to be added to 
> a new server.  Many of these have special characters, and 
> when I try to add them with "dir /s /b /a-d | p4 -x add", 
> they happily get added to a pending changelist.  However, 
> upon trying to submit, I get a "File Cannot be found" error 
> and the submission fails.  I believe this could be happening 
> because the special characters get dereferenced into an ASCII 
> approximation in the "dir" call, and so upon adding, the 
> file/folder names in the 'pending changelist' = 'the 
> filenames in the dir call' <> 'what's actually on the machine'.
> 
> So does anyone know of a scriptable way to do this.  I reckon 
> something that would let me add files without having to list 
> them would work.
> However, I can not think of a way to do this recursively in 
> Windows batch.  "p4 add //..." would be nice but "..." only 
> works to reference files already in the depot.  "p4 ad * */* 
> */*/* etc. did not work past the first folder as far as I could tell.
> 
> The P4Win would ddo the job, but I'd rather script something 
> up as using the UI with that many files is painful.
> 
> Thanks all.
> 
> -brad
> 
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