[p4] usefulness of a depot other than a top-level directory?

[Chuck Karish]

On 6/7/06, Robert Cowham <robert at vaccaperna.co.uk> wrote:
> Personally I tend towards narrower and deeper hierarchies than broad and
> shallow ones. It means there is not an explosion of things at any one level.

> One of the keys here is to make it easy for people using p4v or p4win to
> click through your repository and find stuff easily. The structure should be
> grokkable.

This is a performance issue as well as a comprehensibility issue.  The
number of records p4d looks at to expand the wildcards used to
populate a p4v or p4win browser window (p4 files //depot/*, p4 dirs //depot/*)
can be surprisingly large.  When the directory hierarchy is narrow and deep
browsing is much faster and puts less load on the server.

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