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Chandrashekhar Swami
Chandrashekhar Swami

Reputation: 1790

How to ignore taking revision of few files in perforce?

We have few files checked-in in perforce like **@sample.json. Such file names are not supported on Windows, so I get below exception in p4v perforce application when I take revision.

**sample.json: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

I do not want these files on my local box. How can I ignore such files in p4v ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 494

Answers (2)

Samwise
Samwise

Reputation: 71552

See the section on ASCII expansion in the doc on file specs:

https://www.perforce.com/perforce/r12.1/manuals/cmdref/o.fspecs.html

You can use this syntax to exclude files with asterisks in their names from your client view:

//depot/... //client/...
-//depot/...%2A... //client/...%2A...

If you want to actually sync these files and substitute the invalid characters you can do that too. For example:

//depot/... //client/...
//depot/...%2A%2A... //client/...WTF-WHO-PUTS-A-DOUBLE-ASTERISK-IN-A-SAMPLE-FILENAME...

will cause a file called **sample.json to be synced to your workspace as WTF-WHO-PUTS-A-DOUBLE-ASTERISK-IN-A-SAMPLE-FILENAMEsample.json.

Upvotes: 2

Bryan Pendleton
Bryan Pendleton

Reputation: 16389

To ignore/disregard certain files and exclude them from your client workspace, put them into your client view with a '-' in front of them.

Something like:

View:
    //depot/project/... //my/client/project/...
    -//depot/**/*sample.json //my/client/**/*sample.json

Upvotes: 0

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