P4 view mapping and its special characters

P4 view mapping and its special characters

 

Three Views in P4: client views, Branch views, and label views.

 

Note:

1) if the view has multiple mappings for the same file, the subsequent ing overwrites the previous mapping.

2)-ing starting with-is used to exclude the mapping of files. It is generally used to exclude some subdirectories or files in some directories.

3) in client views, the frontend of mapping can be +, indicating the effect of superposition, which is different from general coverage.

 

Space in the file or path:

// Depot/V1/... "// WS/version one /..."

"// Depot/document 2/..." // WS/Document2 /...

"-// Depot/document 2/file2" // WS/Document2/file2

 

Other special characters in the file or path:

Character	ASCIIExpansion
@	% 40
#	% 23
*	% 2a
%	% 25

 

 

Client view instance:

 

Client View	Sample Mapping
Full client workspace mapped to entire depot	// Depot/... // WS /...
Full client workspace mapped to part of depot	// Depot/DIR/... // WS /...
Some files in the depot aremapped to a different part of the client Workspace	// Depot/... // WS /... // Depot/rel1/... // WS/release1 /...
Some files in the depot areexcluded from the client Workspace	// Depot/DIR/... // WS /... -// Depot/DIR/exclude/... // WS/DIR/exclude /...
Files in the client workspace are mapped to different names than their depot names.	// Depot/DIR/old. * // WS/renamed/New .*
Portions of filenames in the depot are rearranged in the client Workspace	// Depot/DIR/% 1.% 2 // WS/DIR/% 2.% 1
The files do not map the same way in each direction. The second line takes precedence, and the first line is ignored.	// Depot/dir1/... // WS/build /... // Depot/dir2/... // WS/build /...
An overlay mapping is used to map files from more than one depot Directory into the same place in the workspace.	// Depot/dir1/... // WS/build /... + // Depot/dir2/... // WS/build /..