[p4] How import a production database on a fresh server .

[Robert Cowham]

> [Aside: If this were a Windows machine, I would test on a 
> separate machine, always. To repeat:  I would not mix 
> production-server and test-server on the same Windows 
> machine. It would be far too easy to accidently connect to 
> the wrong one, thinking you were doing a test operation, and 
> make a devastating change to the production server. (Running 
> against the wrong P4ROOT directory is a variation of this 
> risk.) Because of system-wide registry entries (to support 
> starting the production server as a service), the chances of 
> a user-mistake paint a gloomy outcome.]

Amen!

I don't like setting P4ROOT - I prefer being explicit with the -r option to
p4d (or via service environment). I have scared myself in the past
forgetting which server I was talking to.

Robert