[p4] Is it possible to create soft links in the p4 depot and when you apply a label, the label gets applied to the real file

[Stephen Vance]

Perforce symlinks only provide for storage of native file system 
symlinks on supported operating systems (Unix-like and BeOS, last I 
knew). They have no distinct behavior of their own on the server. You 
will need to script this yourself.

Steve

Alok Narula wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> My company is using the latest version of Perforce 2007.2. I would like
> to know if it is possible to create soft links in the p4 depot and when
> you apply a label, the label gets applied to the real file.
>
>  
>
> To illustrate, assume that my depot is as below:
>
>  
>
> Host
>
>             X
>
>             Y
>
> Driver
>
>             A
>
>             B
>
>             Z
>
>  
>
> I want to label the Driver folder with a tag "MyProjectOct17" and I want
> the label to get applied to the file X also which is in a different
> folder. If I create a soft-link for X in the Driver folder and apply the
> label to the Driver folder, the label will be applied to files A, B, Z,
> and X. The question is, doe perforce support this and if yes, what is
> the method to:
>
>  
>
> a.	Create soft-link in the depot
> b.	Apply label to the soft-link so that it gets propagated to the
> real file.
>
>  
>
> Alok
>
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