[p4] Accidental checkout

[Robert Cowham]

Turn on server logging, e.g.

P4d -vserver=3

Note that this generates a large log file that will need to be rotated
regularly. However, it will prove whether they did open the whole tree and
when, which might jog memories etc...

You may also wish to investigate putting them in a particular group and
setting maxresults/maxscanrows (see p4 help maxresults and the sysadmin
guide).

Robert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Jeff 
> Desharnais
> Sent: 28 August 2006 22:13
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] Accidental checkout

> 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?