[p4] Doubt regarding add/submit

[Ivey, William]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com]On Behalf Of YogS
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This may be fairly simple for all you guys, but I am stuck at this
> 
> I have to add a single directory into a huge directory tree. Also the
> location where I want to add this directory contains large 
> number of other
> directories.
> 
> Is there any way by which I can add the directory without doing
> checkout/sync of parent directory. Because of huge size of 
> parent directory,
> I don't want to do a checkout/sync the parent directory.

For an add you don't need to sync anything, just create the
correct path under your workspace and add the files. But I
usually let Perforce create it by syncing a single, small
file from the correct path in depot syntax. That way I avoid
at least some typos.

-Wm