[p4] Question about percents in client spec

Stephen Vance steve at vance.com
Wed Dec 13 07:53:56 PST 2006


See the help on views. It's a placeholder that says that position 1 on 
the left maps to position 1 on the right. It's the same as an asterisk, 
but individually reference-able on the right with positional rearrangement.

Steve

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I had a client spec that had this in the view:
>
>  	//depot/NSG/KG-250.2/main/Software/Code/* //jsmall_build0/*
>
> I copied the spec using
>
> client -t oldspec newspec
>
> and the result came out as
>
>  	//depot/NSG/KG-250.2/main/Software/Code/%%1 //jsmall_build0/%%1
>
> I was able to change it to an asterick but I don't know what the %%1 
> means. Anyone?
>
> TIA
>
>   


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