[p4] Branch deprecation procedure?

[Chuck Karish]

On 9/19/07, Frank Compagner <frank.compagner at guerrilla-games.com> wrote:
> Yes, but make sure you understand the performance impact of
> exclusionary mappings. Some time ago I decided to hide about 20
> obsolete branches with lines in the protect table like this:
>
> write  group  *  *  -//depot/oldbranch1/...
>
> This brought the server to it's knees. Cpu usage was 100% all the
> time, and even the simplest queries would take minutes to complete.

I find this surprising.  Are you sure the exclusionary mappings didn't
contain multiple wildcards?

Another strategy I don't think we've mentioned: use a trigger to
block writes.


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