[p4] Release branch protection

[Steve Short]

Steve

Can you explain that last sentence?

Steve

From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com [mailto:perforce-user-
 
Put all of your release branches under a common directory in the 
Perforce server and protect that directory with a single protection 
line. Remember, the physical storage for your branches does not need to 
mirror the logical topology of them.

Steve

michael.kuitunen at kodak.com wrote:
> Relative Perforce newbie here.
>
> Our team builds several software 'components' which can be 'released'
> independently. This means we will have a lot of 'release' branches ---
many
> components with many releases of each.
>
> What we would like to do is to protect our 'release' branches from
> accidental checkouts and code modifications. "p4 protect" looks like
what
> we want, but we have some questions about it.
>
> 1) "p4 protect" can only be run by super-users. What we would like to
do is
> have our Python build scripts protect the release branches when they
are
> completed. However, several users can be running build scripts at the
same
> time - building independent components. It would be ideal if the build
> scripts could 'protect' the release branches, yet the build scripts
are not
> being run by super-users.
>
> Question: Any ideas on how we could handle this requirement?
>
> 2) If we did 'protect' each release branch, it sounds like our
protection
> table could get large (we would have an extra entry for each release
> branch).  I considered using wildcards to protect all release branches
with
> a single line in the protection table, but that prevents creation of
any
> new release branches.
>
> Question: Will this impact performance if our protection table gets
large?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mike-
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