[p4] Perforce Return Codes and other headaches

[Ivey, William]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com]On Behalf Of 
> Weintraub, David
> 
> I just talked to Perforce about these issues:
>  
[...]
> 
> * LACK OF COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
> There has been a concerted effort at Perforce to limit the number of
> command line parameters in order to keep the commands from getting
> overly complex. 

That's understandable - each additional option adds maintenance,
support and documentation costs to the command. On the other hand,
if they solve problems that have resulted in calls to support, or
customers just find really annoying, it's usually worth it.

To keep things reasonable for p4 help, that command could have an
option which would display help for less common options.

-Wm