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<p>initial population</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Here is one example of a strategy for working with perforce to merge some of the contents of <br /> depots on two separate servers into one directory tree in a client workspace.<br /> Suppose, for example, that we are working with two depots names //submission, one on a <br /> perforce server named opensource, and the other on a server called boxer. Further, we want to take <br /> part of the contents of boxer and merge it into the directory synced from opensource. In particular <br /> we want //submission/third_party from boxer to behave as if it came from opensource.<br /> <br /> 1) create client specs which map files to the right place on the client machine.<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> ### opensource clientspec<br /> //submission/... //opensource-client-spec/C:/opensource/submission/...<br /> <br /> ### boxer clientspec<br /> //submission/... //boxer-client-spec/C:/boxer/submission/...<br /> //submission/third_party/... //boxer-client-spec/C:/opensource/submission/third_party/...<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> 2) It can be quite helpful to use the p4config mechanism. Instead of the single-server strategy of <br /> setting the P4PORT and P4CLIENT environment variables, one sets the variable P4CONFIG. It is <br /> set to the name of a text file that may be present on disk. I use the name p4config. Now, when a <br /> perforce command is issued from a given working directory, p4 searches for a p4config file in the <br /> current directory, or if not found in successive parent directories. Once a file is found p4 looks <br /> inside for the setting of any number of variables. This is where I set P4PORT and P4CONFIG. In <br /> the current example:<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> ### C:/opensource/p4config contains:<br /> P4PORT=opensource.adobe.com:10666<br /> P4CLIENT=mmarcus-pc<br /> P4USER=mmarcus<br /> <br /> ### C:/opensource/submission/third_party/p4config (and C:/boxer/p4config) contains:<br /> P4PORT=boxer.corp.adobe.com:1770<br /> P4CLIENT=mmarcus-pc<br /> P4USER=mmarcus<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> That's it. Now if I cd to C:/opensource/submission and p4 sync I'll get files from opensource, but if I cd to C:/opensource/submission/third_party the files will come from boxer.</div>

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