Re: [p4] Anyone have a way to preview p4 protect updates outside of the P4V admin tool?

Posted on behalf of forum user 'Matt Janulewicz'.

I don't think the protections table is cloned into a DVCS instance, and a
very cursory test seems to not allow cloning of the spec depot, so I'm not
sure using DVCS would work. I don't have a lot of experience with it,
though, mostly just moving servers from one place to another.

I think your best bet at this point is probably the direction you're going,
to only support a few specific scenarios and to be terse about what a project
manager can do.

Another outside horse in this race might be the p4broker. You could
theoretically use the broker to do most permissions checking, even based on your
own system, without invoking the actual protections table much. This would have
to be a more command-centric way of doing it, though. You could open the entire
depot to all users and give them write access, then use the broker to intercept
things like submit, sync, etc., running your own custom script to decide whether
or not the user should be able to do that. Probably all kinds of danger in that
idea, too, but it could (again, theoretically) eliminate the need to translate
the tool's idea of permissions into Perforce's idea of the protections
table. Hard to tell off the top of my had how much worse of an idea that is, but
in any case the p4broker is a fun tool to play with.  :)



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