[p4] Can I inject something into a changelist?

[Greg Leach]

Whenever a file is added or removed from a branch, I need to update a 
list of files (single file edit) in another section of our server.  
Since this update is directly tied to the check-in that the user just 
made, it would be ideal if I could update the list in a change-submit or 
change-content trigger and inject the edited file into the changelist 
being submitted.

Of course, it doesn't look like this is possible, so I'm wondering if 
there's something nasty waiting for me if I have the change-commit 
trigger submit another changelist with just the one file that we need 
updated.  There isn't the danger of recursive triggers, since the 
updated file is outside the path that will be firing the trigger, but is 
there anything else bad?  Or can I actually inject the update into the 
changelist?

Our last idea was to use a daemon to just poll the server to see if 
there have been any adds or deletes since the last time the list was 
updated.  I'm open to better ideas.  :)

Thanks,
-Greg



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