Perfarce extension oddity...

[Steven Johnson]

On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Steven Johnson wrote:

> 
> Tried that: for this custom client spec, I have
> 
>     Root = ~/perforce-stuff
>     //depot/long/path/tofoo/... //my-machine/foo/...
> 
> But I'm still getting the same result. I'll keep poking around (time to peek at perfarce.py, I suppose) -- just not sure if this was "expected" or a known issue, etc...

Following up... apparently the trick is to have the p4 root encompass the entire local path, and map to that, e.g.,

    Root = ~/perforce-stuff/foo
    //depot/long/path/tofoo/... //my-machine/...

This seems a little fiddly, but as long as it works...