[p4] Using current directory as client root?

[Dave Lewis]

We generally just create a new client for each build.  If a build was
certified by qa, you could label it as the release if necessary.  It
never occurred to me that there was anything undesirable about it.
Just my point of view.  Its interesting to rethink these sorts of
things when somebody comes along and says they don't like that.  There
was the issue of cleaning up the clients at some point afterwards.  I
think, though, that this is fairly straightforward usage compared to
various other somewhat crooked approaches.

dave


On Jan 16, 2008 9:47 PM, Roy Smith <smith_roy at emc.com> wrote:
> Yeah, this sounds like mostly what I'm looking for.  It's still
> annoying that you have to create a transient clientspec, though.
>
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Robert Cowham wrote:
>
> > Sounds like that might be addressed by:
> >
> > http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.072/user/relnotes.txt
> >
> > Release 2007.2.
> >
> > Major new functionality in 2007.2
> >
> > New 'p4 sync' option bypasses db.have updates - #111247 **
> >
> >           'p4 sync' now sports a '-p' option.  This allows the user to
> >           sync files without the server keeping track of it.  This
> >           option is very useful when populating  build clients or when
> >           publishing content when there is no requirement for saving
> >           the client workspace state.
> >           (Bug #22857).
> >
> > This would require the "create temporary client hack", but perhaps
> > solve the
> > problem??
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> >> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Roy Smith
> >> Sent: 16 January 2008 19:58
> >> To: Perforce User
> >> Subject: [p4] Using current directory as client root?
> >>
> >> I have a requirement (as part of our build system) to be able
> >> to get a set of files from the repository and have them
> >> written to any arbitrary directory.  Because the root path is
> >> embedded in the client spec, there doesn't seem to be any way
> >> to do this.
> >>
> >> We've played with all sorts of hacks.  We can create a
> >> symlink from the root path embedded in the client to where we
> >> really want the
> >> files.  We can create and destroy temporary client specs on
> >> the fly.
> >> But all these seem like hacks.  Surely there must be some
> >> simple way to say, "just put the files HERE".
> >>
> >> We don't need the workspace to be managed by perforce.  We'll
> >> never want to edit the files there, or submit any changes
> >> from there.  We just want a read-only copy of the source tree
> >> so we can build it.
> >
> >
>
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