[p4] Sharing workspace between 2 users?

[Qazwart]

The real problem is when the client spec is used on different  
machines and root drives. That is, someone is sharing the client on  
Machine "A" and Machine "B". It doesn't matter whether this is two  
different people, or the same person. This is trouble.

What we are talking about is a single directory workspace on a single  
machine that multiple users will access. The problem is the access to  
the workspace. Some Perforce user must own it, and it is best if  
everyone who used that workspace was that user (as you pointed out).  
Otherwise, there may be permission problems with user A sync'ing user  
B's workspace.

The best way is to use the P4CONFIG environment variable (which could  
be set in the Registry if this is a Windows machine to some file name  
(standards are .p4rc for Unix, p4.rc or _p4rc for Windows). Then have  
this file in the root of the client. This file will contain the name  
of the Perforce user, the workspace name, the P4PORT, etc. That way,  
if you go into this directory, you are automatically set to the  
correct user and port. I recommended that this be a special Perforce  
user with read only rights, and in a user group that has a very long  
log out time. That way, people who use this machine: Don't have to  
log in, and cannot -- even if they want to -- submit changes.

On Aug 31, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Gabor Maghera wrote:

> Although possible, sharing workspaces is a no-no according to best
> practices.  This may not be as much of an issue if you are not  
> submitting
> changes through it.

David Weintraub
david at weintraub.name
qazwart at gmail.com