[p4] Accidental checkout

[Francis Paulin]

Hi,

Sadly I did not ever get into the particular situation you are talking about. Besides, reverting big changelists, I did encounter that ;).

I think that P4V should definitely provide a warning message like P4Win for the situation you are talking about.

Make sure to not use P4Win when reverting that many files. The problem is that P4Win is doing a p4 revert -an before doing the actual revert. It should not. I think it's an old bug.

I did a test with P4V and it seems that it does the p4 revert directly without doing a p4 revert -an

In any cases, I prefer using p4 revert directly on the command line. For big changelists to revert, the command line is often faster.

Hope this help
Francis

-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Desharnais
Sent: 28 août 2006 17:13
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: [p4] Accidental checkout


Hello,

We have had a few people here who have accidentally checked out an
entire depot or root folder in Perforce and claim that they didn't do
it, but rather it "just happened".

The only thing I can think of is that all three of these people are
actively using Photoshop and CTRL-E is a hotkey they use very
frequently, which also happens to be the hotkey to check out files in
the Perforce clients. P4V also gives no warning for this, whereas P4Win
does... But they are using P4V.

These three people are convinced that they had nothing to do with it,
but my only answers for them are that they accidentally hit CTRL-E or
perhaps selected multiple files by holding CTRL and they forgot to
unselect the root level.

This causes major problems for our development team because they are
forced to wait a very long time while every file is reverted.

Have any of you ever come across this problem before or have any insight
to this?

Thanks,

---------------------
Jeff Desharnais
IT Specialist
Mad Doc Software
100 Burtt Rd., Suite 220
Andover, MA  01810
(978) 409-6272 Ext. 132

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