Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-p4: support multiple depot paths in p4 submit

[Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>]

On 8 December 2015 at 11:41, Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2015, Lars Schneider wrote:
>
>> >   Would a refactor of lib-git-p4.sh (and probably all git-p4 tests) to
>> > support multiple depots be acceptable and/or welcome? I prefer to ask
>> > before I dig into the task.
>>
>> Can you outline your idea a bit? Are you aware of the following way to define client specs: [1] ? Would that help?
>
>    That's the idea, but the bug occurs when the client view looks like this:
>
>      //depot/... //client/dir1/...
>      //depot2/... //client/dir2/...
>
>    And is then cloned with (it is not legal in Perforce to specify //...
> directly to grab both depots at once):
>
>      git p4 clone --use-client-spec //depot/... //depot2/...
>
>    Then when a file is modified in dir2/, git p4 submit does not elect it
> for the changelist. A file in dir1/ will work fine.
>
>    Unfortunately the current test suite assumes everything is under
> //depot/ so in order to write a test for this situation there are a few
> things to change in lib-git-p4.sh.

I think the existing structure ought to mostly work, but it might need
a bit of tweaking.

You would need to create a new depot, but you can do that in your test script.

And you would need a client spec that pointed at this depot, but again
you can do that in your script with the client_view shell function.

I've not tried it myself though, so maybe it's harder than that.

Luke


>
> Regards,
> --
> Sam.