6 messages in com.perforce.perforce-user[p4] Branching they easy way?| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Robert M. Muench | 20 Oct 1999 02:01 | |
| Pascal Menoud | 21 Oct 1999 09:19 | |
| Mark Lentczner | 21 Oct 1999 09:58 | |
| Dave Birkhead | 21 Oct 1999 10:59 | |
| Scott Blachowicz | 21 Oct 1999 15:10 | |
| Robert M. Muench | 22 Oct 1999 01:42 |
| Subject: | [p4] Branching they easy way? |
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| From: | Robert M. Muench (robe...@robertmuench.de) |
| Date: | 10/22/1999 01:42:07 AM |
| List: | com.perforce.perforce-user |
-----Original Message----- From: perforce-user-admin at perforce.com [mailto:perforce-user-admin at perforce.com]On Behalf Of Mark Lentczner Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 6:59 PM To: Perforce-User (E-mail) Subject: Re: [p4] Branching they easy way?
Alas - your base assumption is going to bite you again and again. It really really really does make sense for experimental/XYZ to map to a different directory than dev_line.
Hi, this project is quite big and it doesn't make sense to have several instances of it (at least yet). I don't need the dev_line and experimental line at the same time. The diffs can be done against the branched version of the experimental line, as this version equals the dev_line version, the branch was made from.
Further, I only branch to experimental the things I'm working on, the rest lifes in dev_line. So it can be that the sources are from experimental and the headers are from dev_line on my client. Even this might sound like crazy mixing up it's really straight forward and works quite well.
Another thing worries me: It sounds like there are things that are required to build your project, "as project setup files, databases etc." that are not checked into dev_line. This is a disaster waiting to happen. Every thing that it takes to build a project, unless it comes from a commercial tool (although we've been known to check in obscure utilities), should be checked into Perforce: makefiles, DevStudio projects, config files, utility scripts. We even check all the little text files like "todo" and "notes" that I tend to leave lying around...
That's right and several parts are already in the depot. But thanks for the hint, I will check again.