[p4] integrating when destination has been deleted

Ivey, William william_ivey at bmc.com
Thu Aug 31 09:24:35 PDT 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com]On Behalf Of 
> Weintraub, David

> And that's a problem. I have to keep track of these changes because
> Perforce doesn't version directories. To me, it's the biggest argument
> for making directories full time members of the source archive. Of
> course, such a move can cause trouble. It means we have to 
> handle "evil
> twins", have a mechanism to remind people to make directories via the
> "p4 mkdir" command and  not directly with "mkdir".

How would you (easily) recursively add a directory tree if you have
to issue a different command for files and directories?

Overloading the add command would seem to make more sense. 

-Wm



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