[p4] Re: sharing client workspace on network share (harmful?)

John-Mason -- 

If you set up your Office docs with a +l file type, then you are trading the 
complexity of this group understanding client specs against the error 
opportunity in their managing multiple change lists in a single workspace.  
Remember that Office only ensures exclusivity on a shared file during the 
time that a user actually has it open.  What happens when someone already 
has it for edit and someone else needs to edit it after hours or while the 
first user is at lunch?  One of them may check in the other's incomplete 
changes. 

Steve 

John-Mason P. Shackelford writes: 

> I have a group here at PEM that would like to use Perforce to manage 
> documentation (primarily Microsoft Office documents). The group had been 
> accustomed to using a network share and renaming files to save prior 
> revisions. One of those in group suggested that all the members of the 
> group share a single client spec mapped to the network share and use P4EXP 
> and P4OFC exclusively to manage documents. 
>
> Being a developer myself this seems like an odd way to use a version 
> control system--but I think I've heard of some in the Perforce community 
> using this approach. Would anyone care to share their experiences with 
> this approach or to point out advantages and disadvantages? 
>
> John-Mason Shackelford 
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