[p4] Workspace option: exclusive open

[Ivey, William]

> Showing your branched product as a single directory tree
> isn't any more or less "real" than considering individual
> branches separately. Your branching strategy is real enough.

It's more real in the sense that it matches what the user
sees through Windows Explorer, for example. They get testy
if they go from there to P4Win and it looks like directories
are missing.

> How many times have you seen a change submitted that
> contains files from more than one branch?

None that I can recall, except where actually intended.

-Wm


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Karish [mailto:chuck.karish at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 5:07 PM
To: Ivey, William
Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Workspace option: exclusive open

On 9/16/07, Ivey, William <william_ivey at bmc.com> wrote:
> Therefore, forcing Perforce to mask this reality seems
counterproductive
> and prone to errors

Showing your branched product as a single directory tree isn't any
more or less "real" than considering individual branches separately.
Your branching strategy is real enough.

> In five years, I've never seen a file submitted to the wrong branch I
> attribute

How many times have you seen a change submitted that contains
files from more than one branch?

There isn't any one right way to do this.  What makes sense to your
users is best.

-- 
Chuck Karish   karish at well.com   (415) 317-0182