[p4] Usefulness of labeling deleted files?

[Jay Glanville]

Sorry David, but in my example, I was using a.c#3 and b.c#4, where b.c#4
was deleted.  Different files.

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Jay Dickon Glanville


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Weintraub [mailto:qazwart at gmail.com] 
> Sent: July 24, 2007 2:13 PM
> To: Jay Glanville
> Cc: Perforce Users Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [p4] Usefulness of labeling deleted files?
> 
> 
> > Now, the major reason I use labels is to be able to 
> recreate some of my
> > important loadbuilds.  Labeling a deleted file doesn't really help
> > achieve this.  I mean, if I need file //depot/path/to/a.c#3, but not
> > //depot/path/to/b.c#4 (where #4 is the deleted revision), 
> then why not
> > just have a.c#3 in the label?  Why tag both of these entries?
> 
> As far as I know, only one revision of a particular file (on a
> particular branch) can have a label. You can't have both a.c#3 and
> a.c#4 both having the label on it.
> 
> If you do a "p4 sync" to that label, which revision of the 
> file do you get?
> 
> Why do you think both a.c#3 and a.c#4 both have that label on them?
> 
> 
> On 7/23/07, Jay Glanville 
> <Jay.Glanville at naturalconvergence.com> wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I was recently reviewing some of the labels on my system.  
> One of the
> > things I noticed was that many of my labels contain deleted files.
> >
> > Now, the major reason I use labels is to be able to 
> recreate some of my
> > important loadbuilds.  Labeling a deleted file doesn't really help
> > achieve this.  I mean, if I need file //depot/path/to/a.c#3, but not
> > //depot/path/to/b.c#4 (where #4 is the deleted revision), 
> then why not
> > just have a.c#3 in the label?  Why tag both of these entries?
> >
> > Why am I asking?  I have many static labels.  Each of these 
> labels can
> > contain upwards of 60k files.  Due to history, these labels 
> contain 1/3
> > deleted files.  If I was only labeling the non-deleted 
> files, I could
> > reduce the size of these labels down to 40k.
> >
> > For example, if I had 100 static labels at 60k each, that's 
> 60 million
> > entries in the db.labels file.  If I was only labeling non-deleted
> > files, then I could reduce this number to 40 million entries.  That
> > would help reduce the load on the server whenever I was dealing with
> > labels.
> >
> > So, I guess I'm not actually asking a question, I'm just 
> pondering out
> > loud ....
> >
> >
> > JDG
> >
> > ---
> > Jay Dickon Glanville
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