Slightly off topic, but why do people use Perforce over SVN (besides 'cuz Valve does')? garry
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:25 PM, botman <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben Tucker wrote: > > im having some perforce troubles.... I have two computers on the same > network, and both have perforce installed. I also have them sharing a > netfolder ( a hard drive shared on the network ). I cant install perforce > server on the netfolder because it isnt actually a server. Id like to store > a perforce depot on there that both the computers can access and use. > > > > I have attempted this by defining a depot on both of the comps. I did > this with MSDOS: > > p4 depot lido > > and then changed the map: field to the netfolder's path and where I had > the depot folder. This half worked, as they both could put files up there > and do things with them. however, they could not detect the other computers > files, so they could not collaborate. > > > > anyone know how to fix this so they can collaborate on the same files? > > > You shouldn't be "sharing" files anywhere. You install Perforce on one > machine and run it as the server... > > > http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.082/manuals/p4sag/01_install.html#1049719 > > You install Perforce on the other machine (the client) and run it as a > client. > > The server creates a depot using "p4 depot SomeDepotName"... > > > http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.082/manuals/p4sag/03_superuser.html#1044923 > > ...and the client(s) access those files by creating a ClientSpec (or > Workspace) that contains that depot. > > The client can then add new files to the depot or sync to revisions of > files in the depot. The P4 server keeps track of which version of each > file a client has. At no point should you "share" a file between the > server and client by putting on a shared network resource where either > machine can modify that file. > > -- > Jeffrey "botman" Broome > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
