[p4] Linking support in the server

[Jeff Grills]

If you were in a Unix OS, you could use symbolic links.  Symbolic links can
even be submitted to perforce.

In Windows NT/XP on NTFS file systems, you may be able to use junction
points - they're kind of like symbolic links, but they can only point to
directories.  I don't think you can submit a junction point into Perforce in
any fashion though, so you'd have to create that junction on every client.

Windows Vista should have support for symbolic links, but I doubt that
Perforce has added support for that yet.  Maybe we'll get that in 2007.1.

j

-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Jesus de Santos
Garcia
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 12:06 PM
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: [p4] Linking support in the server


Hi,

We have a scenario where we need to share some directories between 
several applications and want those shared directories under the 
application directory. For example:

PERFORCE:

  \Common\Data

  \App0\
  \App1\
  \App2\

VIEW IN THE CLIENT OF App0
--------------------------

C:\App0\Data

VIEW IN THE CLIENT OF App1
--------------------------

C:\App1\Data

VIEW IN THE CLIENT OF App0
--------------------------

C:\App1\Data


At first, we tried with specific mapping in the client workspace to 
accomplish this. The problem appeared when an user works in several 
applications and cannot map a directory to several directories...

How is the recommended way to solve this?

In the past, I remember using links in SourceSafe to solve this. I've 
seen that p4 server support a type link, but it is supposed to work only 
in linux (?). Are they supported in a Win32 server (using the links in 
NTFS with linkd for example).

Thanks.
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