[p4] Does this workflow seem odd to you?

[Ivey, William]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tetrick, Cary [mailto:ctetrick at midway.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 3:47 PM
> To: Ivey, William; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: RE: [p4] Does this workflow seem odd to you?
> 
> 
> This can happen easily if there are a lot of changes going 
> into the same
> files. The work in step 5 should be limited to dealing with problems
> that arise from the newly resolved code. 
> 
> Good communication among users can go a long way to help too, and this
> is the preferred method.
> They can always get properties on the file to find out who else has it
> open, and coordinate with them.
> 
> They could try locking the file just before step 3, assuming they can
> sync, resolve, fix problems related to the resolve, and 
> submit quickly, they won't hold people up too long.

That's the problem - they aren't submitting at all until after a
week or two of resolving changes into their local file. I don't
see anything intrinsically bad about that - it's just a form of
editing the contents, really - but when they do it repeatedly,
and then let Perforce merge the final results on its own when 
they finally do get around to submitting, I'm not surprised there
are issues. -Wm


> [...]
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Ivey, William
> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 11:43 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] Does this workflow seem odd to you?
> 
> I've got a user who is complaining that every time they resolve
> a file they have to resolve even differences they've already resolved.
> 
> Here's their workflow:
> 
> 1. Open file for editing
> 2. Work on it
> 3. Sync someone else's changes to the same file
> 4. Do the resolve
> 5. Work some more on it
> 6. Repeat steps 3-5 a few times
> 7. Finally submit it
> 
> What the user complains about is that at step 7 it still needs
> to be resolved even though it effectively has been resolved.
> (That is, he could simply do an accept yours on it and be fine.)
> This doesn't surprise me at all, but it upsets him.
> 
> Further, he's been using "merge" instead of "accept yours"
> so sometimes the result is not at all what he expects. (This
> seems a little strange, but I'm not totally shocked.)
> 
> Anyone else using a workflow like that? If so, any advice
> or suggestions to keep this user happy?
> 
> -Wm
>  X26150 (512-340-6150)
> 
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