[p4] A script or command to mirror a local directory in Perforce?

[Taylor Brown]

How nice and consolidated.  I should have joined this list a long time
ago.

Thanks!

    Taylor

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell C. Jackson [mailto:rusty at rcjacksonconsulting.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:07 PM
To: Taylor Brown; perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: RE: [p4] A script or command to mirror a local directory in
Perforce?

Take a look at this tech note:

http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note002.html

It has all the commands in it to do what you are describing.


Thanks, 
Rusty
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-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Taylor Brown
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:59 PM
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: [p4] A script or command to mirror a local directory in
Perforce?


We are checking in the results of our product builds to Perforce.  We
would
like to check the full product into the same location in Perforce each
time,
and simply label it with the version number. That way, we'll only need
to
sync to a label to get the proper build of the version.  

In order to do this, we will need to delete files that were in the
previous
build but not in the new build.  Likewise, we need to add files that are
in
the new build, but that were not in the old, and we need to edit and
submit
files that have changed.  In short, we want to mirror our local build
directory in Perforce.  Adding and editing files will be
easy:

To add, we could just ask Perforce to add all files in the directory,
and it
will happily ignore all the files it already knows about.  We can also
open
every file for edit and then revert all files that are unchanged to make
sure we've edited all changed files.

Deleting files that are no longer there however, presents a bit more of
a
challenge.  I am about to write a script that lists the files in the
depot
and compares them to the files on disk to look for files that are in the
depot but that are not on the disk.  Has someone already made such a
mirror
utility?  Is there something in Perforce that already does this?  It
seems
like something people would commonly want to do.

Many thanks,

   Taylor Brown

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