[p4] Eclipse plugin - keeps saying '{path} not under client's root'- stumped

[Rick Reumann]

On 10/27/07, Chuck Karish <chuck.karish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/25/07, Rick Reumann <rick.reumann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, my first choice was to NOT have to link up to the same windows
> > repository. What I WANT to have is a separate local repo on the
> > windows machine and another repo on the linux share. Form what I've
> > been reading this isn't really what altroots is for? (although the
> > docs don't seem to be too clear on it.)
>
> AltRoots allows you to list multiple names to the same client root
> directory.
> In your case there's a name for the directory as it's mounted on Windows
> and one as it's mounted on Linux.
>
> I don't know what you mean by "separate local repo".


I used the wrong term, I mean a separate workspace which I managed to do as
was suggested to me.

Each client maps
> one set of files on the server to one set of files on disk.  Using
> AltRoots
> lets you see one on-disk workspace from two different hosts.


Yes, with the p4 command client this works, but what I'm saying does not
work is when I try to use the eclipse perforce plugin. It doesn't accept my
alt roots definition as a valid alt root. I end up with that "path not under
client root error."





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Rick