[p4] Preventing checkout of entire depot

[Geoff Rowland]

Yes, this is correct, I want to prevent users from accidently checking
out large quantities of files.  So I would not want them to be able to
check out the entire Branch, for example, without confirmation.  Most
users are in groups that have proper protections set up so they would
not be able to check out the entire depot - I misspoke in my original
email.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Vance [mailto:steve at vance.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 6:14 PM
To: Nittin chawala
Cc: Geoff Rowland; perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Preventing checkout of entire depot

#1 would prevent submitting the change, but not the checkout itself.

#2 would only limit the scope of the undesirable behavior. You could 
only control it to a certain depth but doing so would introduce many 
wildcards and if deep enough would inhibit their ability to do work. The

cure could be worse than the disease.

I don't think he wants to prevent them from checking the files out if 
they have a good reason. It seems he wants to prevent them from checking

out large quantities of them accidentally.

Also, Geoff, you should try to isolate the cause so that you can report 
it to Perforce.

Steve

Nittin chawala wrote:
> there are two ways to do this :
>    
>   1) Write this logic in a trigger ( By this you can prevernt them to
submit their change )
>   2) Modify the protection table by removing write access at // level
for user group. This will not allow them to checkout so a preferred way
in your case, and you can make seperate group for the people by giving
write pemission to them whom you think can checkout/submit.
>   
> --
> Geoff Rowland <growland at blueomega.com> wrote:
>   Recently we have started to encounter several users accidently
checking
> out the entire depot. I believe what happens is they are working in a
> different window, then P4V gets focused, but they don't realize it,
and
> certain keystrokes check out the depot. Is there any way to prevent
> this? Ideally it would be nice if a message box appeared anytime a
user
> tried to check out x amount of files that just said something like
'are
> you sure you really want to do this?'
>
>
>
> As you can imagine, when dealing with binary+l files, this becomes a
> huge pain.
>
>
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