[p4] Integrating Perforce with RoboHelp

[Russell Jackson]

I would actually recommend against this for any program, and the reason is
that the .zip file might be a very large file, and if you change one single
file it, you now have to check in the whole thing again to update that file.
It is much preferred to check in the individual files just like you would
with regular source code.

Rusty

On 4/18/07, Qazwart <qazwart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
> --
> David Weintraub
> david at weintraub.name
> qazwart at gmail.com
>
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