[p4] moving projects from one depot to another

[Tyler Hopaluk]

Thanks for the response but I think I may have miss-communicated my problem. Perhaps I used the term depot improperly, it was my understanding that each of the root folders in the perforce structure was called a depot since you use p4 depot to create them. I am only reorganizing folders on one server.


The reason behind reorganizing the structure of our perforce server is not because of performance or user issues, but because no one can find anything in the server.

The previous administrator let everyone put their projects wherever they wanted and now there are 10 root depots, each containing complicated structures that force users to navigate 3 or 4 folders deep to find the project they are looking for.

Many people have complained about the disorganized structure so a root tree of 4 folders was decided on and everything will be sorted into these 4 root folders. Now there is no problem with this as moving the projects is simple, however after all projects have been moved out of one of the old root directories, no one wants to see it anymore. If I hide the folder using p4 protect, then no one can follow the file history from before the move.

It's a bit of a catch22 because we can sort out the projects into the new folders but then we are left with 6 empty folders that I can't remove lest we loose the previous file versions they contain.

I don't know if any kind of checkpoint manipulation will be feasible as there are over 50000 files + their past revisions spanning 80GB.

Hope this helps clear up some confusion.

Tyler


-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Ivey, William
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 9:18 AM
To: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] moving projects from one depot to another

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com]On Behalf Of Qazwart
> 
> Having separate depots won't solve your performance issues.

I don't think performance was an issue for the OP, he just said
"poor perforce management" had led to a poorly organized system.
(I read "poor perforce" as "poor performance" the first time too.)

-Wm

 

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