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Subject:How do I add a client without doing a full "get"?
From:Andr...@axonet.com.au (Andr@axonet.com.au)
Date:10/03/1997 12:47:52 AM
List:com.perforce.perforce-user

-----Original Message----- From: Peter Friberg [SMTP:qsbpef at esavionics.se] Sent: Friday, October 03, 1997 4:15 PM To: PERFORCE-USER Distribution List Subject: Re: How do I add a client without doing a full "get"?

Andrew-Dalgleish wrote:

I am currently using VSS, and am evaluating switching to Perforce. I have around 5800 files (350 MB), and 12 engineers (6 in Australia, 6 in the USA/Canada). All the engineers have a reasonably up-to-date (+/- 2 days) copy of the source.

How can I add a client to Perforce without doing a full get?

You always do explicit gets with Perforce, thus creating a client only maps file names from the depot into the new client workspace. It does not copy the files until you tell Perforce to do so. This means that you may get any files you want from anywhere in the depot into the client workspace that are included in your client view.

For instance this maps of all hifly projects files into client my_client:

//depot/hifly/... //my_client/...

Getting only .C files starting with an a in the src/ directory do this:

p4 get //depot/hifly/src/a*.c

[Andrew Dalgleish]

I guess my explanation wasn't very clear.

I do want to do a full get, but I do not want to wait while perforce transfers files to my client which I have already obtained by other means.