[p4] typemap with +k

[Jamie.Echlin@barclayscapital.com]

Hrm, thanks for that. We have put in a RFE. We need to do something in
the typemap like 

+k //....(isPlainText?)

Or whatever. Relying on extensions is a recipe for trouble, eg .prc is
used by Rational Rose (binary), but also for stored procs (text), Word
.docs are binary, Framemaker ones are not.

Not to harp on about clearcase, but take some examples of the equivalent
of the typemap:

directory : -stat d ;
c_source source text_file : -printable & -name "*.c" ;
sh_script script text_file : -printable & (-name ".profile" | -name
"*.sh") ;
archive library file: !-printable & -name "*.a" ;

Etc... 

Cheers, jamie


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamison, Shawn [mailto:sjamison at ciena.com] 
> Sent: 08 March 2007 12:49
> To: Echlin, Jamie: IT (LDN); perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: RE: [p4] typemap with +k
> 
> I had the same kind of issue with a different OS.  
> You will need to implement and rely on file extensions and/or naming
> conventions. 
>  
> Otherwise remove the global +k type mapping and you or your developers
> will have to manually add the +k type map to all new files.
> 
> At least that is what I had to do...the file extensions and naming
> conventions part that is!
> 
> -Shawn J>
> Perforce Admin
> Ciena Corp.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of
> Jamie.Echlin at barclayscapital.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:48 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] typemap with +k
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have a particular area of the depot where we want +k on text files,
> regardless of type (pl, pm, java and so on)... So we naively 
> changed the
> typemap to have:
> 
> +k //depot/somearea/...
> 
> Assuming that the +k would only apply to text files. Now this 
> area also
> contains various binary files, images and excel templates, 
> many of which
> I now see are "corrupted" by the keyword expansion. 
> 
> Short of listing ALL the file extensions where we may ever want the
> keyword expansion, is there any alternative? In ClearCase for instance
> you have a "plain text" test, so you can say, is it plain text? If so
> store it as xyz... 
> 
> I guess a post-commit trigger could accomplish the same thing, as you
> could be a bit more intelligent about what is plain text. In general I
> don't like relying on extensions, many programs use the same extension
> name for storage of different files, and on unix having a 
> file extension
> is not so much a convention.
> 
> Cheers, jamie
> 
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