[p4] Variable substitution in client specs?

[Stephen Vance]

See the recent thread on the debate between one branch per client and 
many branches per client. People like both approaches for many reasons.

As for how to do it, you can script it easily, you can create template 
clients, or you can put many branches into a workspace.

Steve

Bennett, Patrick wrote:
> Why on earth would you need to create a new clientspec for every new
> branch?
> Most of our users only have one client spec.  
> Different branches map to different areas off their client root.  It's
> all quite simple really.  
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Roy Smith
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 2:00 PM
> To: Perforce User
> Subject: [p4] Variable substitution in client specs?
>
> I've been using p4 for about a year.  When we first started using it,  
> the biggest stumbling block was the drudgery of creating client  
> specs.  Now that I've been using it for a year, I still find creating  
> clientspecs is a pain.  There's so much duplicated information.  Each  
> time you create a branch, you need to create a new clientspec, which  
> means taking an old one and doing a lot of editing.  Here's a simple  
> example:
>
> Client: dmt-dev-smithr3-7.2
>
> Root:   /emc/smithr3/src/dmt-dev-smithr3-7.2
>
> View:
>          //depot/smarts/dmt/dev/smithr3/7.2/... //dmt-dev-smithr3-7.2/ 
> smarts/...
>
>
> The string "dmt-dev-smithr3-7.2" appears three times (and this is a  
> trivial view; in a more typical view, it would appear many times).   
> It would be so nice if I could do something like:
>
>
> Client: dmt-dev-smithr3-7.2
>
> Root:   /emc/smithr3/src/$client
>
> View:
>          //depot/smarts/$branch/... //$client/smarts/...
>
> then whenever I needed to create a new branch, and a clientspec to go  
> with it, I could just copy my template, change two lines, and be  
> done.  Is there any way to do something like this?
>
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