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Bhargav
Bhargav

Reputation: 23

How share and import data between two mainline streams in perforce

I have a mainline stream //depot/stream_mainline_1/...

I need to create another mainline stream //depot/stream_mainline_2/... where I need to import(read only) some of the folders and share the some other folders in newly created mainline stream.

Let’s say //depot/stream_mainline_1/... contains two folders;

  1. test_folder1 -> Need to import this folder
  2. test_folder2 -> Need to share this folder

I know we can import the data like below while creating the new mainline stream(//depot/stream_mainline_2/..)

view:

import test_folder1/... //depot/stream_mainline_1/test_folder1/...

Can someone please help me to know the steps to share the test_folder2?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 826

Answers (1)

Samwise
Samwise

Reputation: 71424

By definition there should only be one mainline stream in a stream hierarchy; each mainline is essentially the root of the tree, and everything else in the tree ultimately either branches or imports content from the mainline. If you have multiple mainlines, you have multiple stream hierarchies that are not related to one another, but that's not what you're trying to do here.

Whether you make your new stream a development or release stream depends on whether it's more or less "firm" than the mainline, i.e. whether its checkin policy is more or less strict.

Either way, you want to make the new stream a child of the mainline, and then you can simply list the path you want to import and the path you want to share, like this:

Parent: //depot/stream_mainline_1

Paths:
    import test_folder1/...
    share test_folder2/...

Upvotes: 0

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