Re: [p4] P4EXP submit and label on folder

Posted on behalf of forum user 'Matt Janulewicz'.



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Sambwise, on 2018/02/16 17:37:32 UTC, said:
>    Unfortunately neither P4EXP nor P4V are open source, but if you're on Windows you could look at P4Win -- I'm sure it'd be reasonably easy to just comment out the panes you don't want.   :D      https://swarm.workshop.perforce.com/projects/perforce-software-p4win/
>     
Yikes! Don't do that! If you're going to consider something that
insa.... ah, drastic, you may as well dig up P4 Commons:

https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/commons-user/index.html

If the label part is standardized you might consider a trigger to slap a label
on the directory being submitted.

If you could indulge me running well off course from the original question, I
personally don't like labels for things that are thought of as permanent
records of a set of files. Labels by nature are editable and changeable over
time, so I prefer the branch+change nomenclature for referring to revisions of
things that need to be referred back to for the rest of time. You have no way of
knowing if a label that was made/applied 10 years ago is correct or consistent,
but (except under extreme circumstances from an admin), branches+changes are
pretty much permanent and immutable. If you've ever been audited for PCI or
by the FDA, and the auditor is well-versed with source control, they'd never
accept a label or tag as a valid reference to code. You may not be in that
stringent of an environment, but I've been bit by labels that had been
moved/reapplied years prior and don't match up to what the bug reports, etc.
(should have) referred to at the time. So maybe I have an unreasonable bias
against labels.  :)



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