[p4] Questions about labels

[Dave Lewis]

If the things that require labels don't change often, we just created
branches for specific versions.  This was generally used for 3rd party
software.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Ivey, William <william_ivey at bmc.com>wrote:

> Rather than put it into the client spec where it would always have
> an impact, I'd rather see automatic labels extended so that each
> file spec can have an optional revision specifier instead of a
> single specifier for all.
>
> Where the current specifier option goes, a switch value might be
> accepted to indicate the extended format. That way processing of
> normal labels is not altered, but if, for example, the form
> has "Revision: inline" it would be processed in the new way.
>
> -Wm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grills, Jeff N [mailto:Jeff.N.Grills at disney.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:01 AM
>
>
> I'm in the same general situation.  To make matters worse, this type of
> sync needs to be done by the majority of our p4 users, particularly less
> technical ones like content creators.  We've resorted to having them use
> a p4 tool or a batch script to sync to get the parameters right.  It
> sure would be nice if we could specify the default sync target for some
> portion of the clientspec.
>
> At the last perforce user's conference I talked to some people about
> this, and it was mentioned that P4 broker might be able to what we need,
> but it turned out to be insufficient for our needs because it can't
> rewrite commands that go through it.
>
> j
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Ivey, William
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:07 AM
> To: Nicolas Landais; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Questions about labels
>
>
> Unless I missed some complicating factor, it's just a
> matter of doing multiple syncs. From the command line it
> would just be:
>
> p4 sync //xzy/... //abc/new/... //abc/def/... at label //abc/efg/... at label
>
> >From the GUI you'd select the first two, sync them at the
> head revision, then select the other two and sync them to
> the label.
>
> -Wm
>
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