[p4] p4v and alt roots

[Chuck Karish]

On 4/24/07, Dave Lewis <dlewis78731 at gmail.com> wrote:
> but I also just realized that I have both windows and cygwin versions
> of p4 installed on my pc...  I just noticed that p4v uses a cygwin
> path for the assumed client root. So maybe my p4v is a cygwin version?
>  maybe I should ask it! it says its NTX86. (2006.1)

Maybe you should have a Windows path as your Root: and
Cygwin and Linux paths, in that order, as your AltRoots:.

> I wish cygwin would play nice with windows sometimes.

I'd put it the other way around.  If Windows would play nice with the
rest of our world cygwin wouldn't be needed.

> dave
>
>
> On 4/24/07, Dave Lewis <dlewis78731 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > no, it has the linux path first, then windows...  figure switching
> > that would work?  worth a try, I guess!
> >
> > dave
> >
> > On 4/24/07, Chuck Karish <chuck.karish at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is the Windows path your Root: and the Linux path the first
> > > of the AltRoots:?
> > >
> > > On 4/24/07, Dave Lewis <dlewis78731 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I have a client on linux, and I also want to use p4v on it, so I have
> > > > the altroot set to the necessary path.  (that is, use p4v on windows
> > > > for the client based on linux, using a netapp shared file system)
> > > >
> > > > it sorta works, but things like diff say they can't find the file.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to get it to use the alt root, or does this not work in p4v?
> > > >
> > > > dave, p4v novice!
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