[p4] Efficiency of protect

Tue Feb 27 04:23:39 PST 2007

Hi Sushree!!

We have a solution that works for us, that all our Offshore developers 
have their own Depot, then we have a team that integrate forward and back 
to the nessecary branches.
Your offshore team will never see your product line complete, and you can 
controll the protection table smoothly.

//EXT_DEPOT/your_ODC1/Code/...
//EXT_DEPOT/your_ODC2/Code/...
etc.

You take their code and place it where you need it, depending how your 
test policy are.

Maybe it works for you to..... or not :)

/Janne.

Sushree Tripathy <sushreetripathy at yahoo.com> 
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2007-02-27 06:08

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Re: [p4] Efficiency of protect

Thanks Robert for your suggestion.

Thanks Stephen,

But my intention is that bangalore_users do not get
any access to the //depot/main/dev/... codeline at all
since it is a restricted one.
So even seeing a copy is voilating the rights and I
need a work around.

I also saw the undoc =rights, i.e =branch restriction.
So using that in protections as :

=branch group newyork_user * -//depot/main/dev/...

would restrict them to do any integ operation using
the codeline as the source I guess.

Again this puts a restriction that they cannot integ
the above codeline to their personal/team branches to
carry out some work.

So again I need a work around... :(

To this I think there are two options left with me:

1)Considering Robert's suggestion we can create 
awareness that such an operation will be considered as
an offence.

OR 

2)Write trigger to prevent the operation

Please correct me if I am wrong and give suggestions
if any...

-Sushree.

--- Stephen Vance <steve at vance.com> wrote:

> Sushree --
> 
> In your branching example, if the newyork_users
> branch 
> //depot/main/dev/... to //depot/main/jam/dev/... the
> bangalore_users can 
> only operate on the copy under
> //depot/main/jam/dev/.... If your purpose 
> is to completely hide the contents of that source,
> you have an issue to 
> overcome. If you just want to protect the copy under
> 
> //depot/main/dev/... then you don't have a problem.
> 
> You may also want to look at the "branch" protection
> level. You can find 
> it as an undocumented feature under 'p4 help undoc'.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Sushree Tripathy wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have two groups say
> >
> > bangalore_users
> > newyork_users
> >
> > I have the following protections:
> > read group bangalore_users * //depot/main/...
> > write group bangalore_users * //depot/main/jam/...
> > read group bangalore_users * -//depot/main/dev/...
> > wirte group newyork_users * //depot/main/...
> >
> > But what if someone from newyork_users group
> branches
> > the files under //depot/main/dev/... to
> > //depot/main/jam/dev/...
> >
> > Then bangalore_users get write access to files
> under
> > //depot/main/dev/... which they should not have
> > access.
> >
> > I do understand that the above example can be
> stated
> > as a mischief but my point is that are the
> protections
> > that efficient w.r.t files/folders?
> >
> > Also can we implement some triggers so that we
> > restrict branching paths by which files become
> visible
> > to restricted users?
> >
> > Please suggest....
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sushree.
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
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