Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>:
A manager asked the question:
Why add more letters to type? Why not just put our
source tree at //projectname instead of //depot/projectname?
Unless I come up with a good answer, he'll make it happen.
Remind him that most users won't be typing //depot, they'll
simply type the local path, usually relative to wherever
they happen to be in their local directory tree.
That said, I'd go for option 3: Name the "depot" for the kind
of work it contains (as at least one other person has pointed
out), unless you never plan to have more one project. Our
depots are named //dev, //docs, //qa, //users, //tools and
//bld. (Aside from the organization, it makes it easy to
set protections.) Oh, yeah, for display reasons, I prefer short
names for the highest levels, that way I don't have to scroll
sideways as much in p4Win.-Wm
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