-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Russell [mailto:jrussel at channelpoint.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 10:26 AM To: 'perforce-user at perforce.com' Subject: [p4] Perforce Sync does not always work...

I am continually frustrated by the fact that "p4 sync //depot/tree/dir/..." does not always sync all the changed files. In order to be sure that I will be syncing all the changed files I am very often forced to add the "-f" option to the sync and do an entire bring over to be sure that I have gotten all the changes.

This is very frustrating because of the code build times we encounter. At this time, because we cannot trust "p4 sync" to bring over every changed files, so we sync an entire code line from Perforce each time we do a build, meaning that 40% to 50% of build time is because of syncing. Additionally, these syncs are between the range of 20,000 to 30,000 files and 100's of MB.

We are working on some solutions involving keeping track of change lists and syncing a range of change lists instead of file specs, but this does not solve the basic issue that "p4 sync" does not work.

I am wondering if anyone else out there has similar issues with "p4 sync" and what you do to deal with it.

Jeremy Russell Release Engineering ChannelPoint, Inc jrussel at channelpoint.com 719.867.9520 AOL\IM jrussel21