[p4] Integrating Perforce with RoboHelp

[Qazwart]

On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:39 AM, James Prolizo wrote:
> I would like to get our documentation team to use Perforce so that the
> docs are more version controlled rather than them copying them to a
> share and development having to get them from the share.  The doc team
> uses RoboHelp to generate help files.  Does anyone have a good working
> practice when it comes to getting doc teams using source control?  Any
> specifically with Perforce?

I don't know anything about RoboHelp, but I'll make the assumption  
that the files the documenters work with are not like the source code  
programs a developer is working on. In that case, the developer knows  
what the source code is, and makes small incremental changes.  
RoboHelp files are probably more like the compiled output of that  
source code.

If that is the case, the easiest thing to do is to consider all of  
the files used in RoboHelp as a binary output. I would store them in  
Perforce as a zipped up archive (using gzip or 7zip). To work on  
them, you'd sync the zipped file to your workspace, and unzip it.  
When you're done, you zip it back up and check in the whole thing at  
once. This can easily be done with a simple script to do the checking  
in and out for you.

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David Weintraub
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