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Richard
Richard

Reputation: 66

Copy a directory recursively from perforce server to local machine (without creating working space) using perforce command?

I am able to copy a file from remote Perforce server to my local machine using this command

p4 print -o <output_filename> <remote_filename>

However, I have two issues here. First, I have to manually specify my output filename. Second, I cannot print out all files and sub-directories within a directory.

What I want to do is coping a specific directory recursively from Perforce server to my local machine directory without creating a workspace on my local machine.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1563

Answers (1)

Samwise
Samwise

Reputation: 71424

Easy answer: Discard the requirement to not create a workspace on your local machine, and create a workspace on your local machine. It is way easier and faster to create a workspace, sync -p, and delete the workspace than it is to re-implement p4 sync.

p4 --field "View=//depot/path/... //TEMPCLIENT/..." --field "Root=C:\output_path" client -o TEMPCLIENT | p4 client -i
p4 -c TEMPCLIENT sync -p
p4 client -d TEMPCLIENT

Hard answer: Implement your own view mapping logic. Use p4 files //depot/path/... to get the list of files, then use a regex to map each depot file into a local file, then run a p4 print command for each pair. It'd look something like:

p4 -F %depotFile% files //depot/path/... | (some gnarly piece of awk/sed/perl that takes "depotFile" as input and produces "print -o localFile depotFile" as output) | p4 -x - run

Upvotes: 2

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