[p4] perforce-user Digest, Vol 33, Issue 3

[perforceuser@spamex.com]

On Sep 3, 2007, at 3:00 PM, perforce-user-request at perforce.com wrote:

>> Is it possible to share one workspace between 2 different users?
>
> Yes.

Eek. I wouldn't do that unless both users are accessing the same  
physical files at different times. A workspace is not just a file  
mapping. It is a state meter. A client knows which files are where,  
and what versions.

I had a new engineer use the same client between two different  
computers: a desktop and a laptop. The laptop was essentially a copy  
of the desktop. He was having issues with the laptop doing a sync and  
not getting the same version that he checked in from the desktop.  
This was because the client was convinced he already had the correct  
version of the file, and wouldn't update it. He had to do a -f sync,  
which is less-than-efficient.

We have a utility that we wrote in-house that establishes a  
"template" client. Individual workspaces are "derived" from this  
template. If the template is updated, we use the utility to update  
all the derived clients. Works real well.

Chris Marshall