[p4] normdir ???

[Roy Smith]

OK, that makes sense.  I'm used to working in environments where all  
generated files go in a build directory, not the source directory  
itself, but I can see your point.

On Dec 12, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Tony Sweeney wrote:

> Roy Smith wrote:
>> By default, the "normdir" option is set in new client specs.   
>> Why?   This seems counter-intuitive.  Is there some non-obvious  
>> problem I'm  going to encounter if I set "rmdir" on all my clients?
>>
> Consider the case where you sync some source to a directory and run  
> a build that leaves derived objects such as .o or .class files  
> laying around.  Now sync the #0 revision of all the files that came  
> from Perforce.  What should Perforce do with the directory?  The  
> derived objects?
>
> Tony.
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