[p4] Same workspace for multiple user

[Ivey, William]

I'm not sure this is actually the solution you think it might be.

If you are talking about putting one workspace on a machine
somewhere and sharing that filesystem to everyone's workstation,
mounted in the same place everywhere, then it can make sense
for certain purposes. (We do that for our build system, one
shared file system, synced from one machine, is mounted on the
same local path on each unix build machine.) This is not the
same as sharing a workspace, though.

If you mean having every user use the same client spec/workspace
on every machine, with independent filesystems, then it's a bad
idea. For one thing, it won't keep anything up to date easily,
and not at all automatically, and it will confuse Perforce and
lead to disaster.

If everyone syncs the header file to the same location on their
system, your problem should be solved, unless there's something
else about it?

-Wm


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Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:21 PM
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Subject: [p4] Same workspace for multiple user

Is it possible to have the same workspace for multiple user.  I know it 
is not the best practice but the way we would be using it, it would be 
only to sync file to the same place on everybody's computer.  We are 
looking in having everybody the same working environment.  So to be, we 
need everybody to have the same header file in the same path.

So what is the best way of having a workspace for multiple user?  Is 
there some knowledge I would need to know.

Thanks