help PERFORCE: how to add a directory recursively to perforce depot

Using the gui you can drag a directory to the
change list area and it will add the tree.

Perforce doesn't understand directories so the
native add command couldn't be recursive.

The standard answer would be to create a wrapper
script, which should be pretty easy.

IMHO, perforce clearly should understand
directories because developers work extensively
with directories. Having the gui understand them
yet not the command line, is inconsistent.

Frank Leung wrote:
> It looks 'p4 add' can not recursively add files.
>
>

In article ,
Frank Leung wrote:
>It looks 'p4 add' can not recursively add files.

No, but you can provide a list to p4 add with the -x option to p4.

http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note012.html

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"Frank Leung" wrote in message
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> It looks 'p4 add' can not recursively add files.

From the Perforce FAQ:
(http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note012.html)

Unix:
find . -type f -print | p4 -x - add

Windows:
dir /b /s /a-d | p4 -x - add

Mac:
files -f -q -r -s | p4 -x - add

Or, drag and drop the directory in the gui. -Wm

"thoff" wrote in message
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> Using the gui you can drag a directory to the
> change list area and it will add the tree.
>
> Perforce doesn't understand directories so the
> native add command couldn't be recursive.

The Peforce recursive wild card is '...' but that assumes the files are on
the server and if you are adding files, they aren't on the server, right?
'p4 add *' works for files in a single directory because the * is expanded
by the command shell. 'p4 add "*"' would have the same problem as ...
because the * would be passed for the server to expand and it can't.

Works with the gui because dragging and dropping provides a file
list to the gui. -Wm

In Unix (or the windows command line), just do:

find . -type f | p4 -x - add

Make sure you're in the correct directory so that
the new pathname is what you want.

Jack Stanley
IT Consultant,
Covad Communications


thoff wrote in message news:...
> Using the gui you can drag a directory to the
> change list area and it will add the tree.
>
> Perforce doesn't understand directories so the
> native add command couldn't be recursive.
>
> The standard answer would be to create a wrapper
> script, which should be pretty easy.
>
> IMHO, perforce clearly should understand
> directories because developers work extensively
> with directories. Having the gui understand them
> yet not the command line, is inconsistent.
>
> Frank Leung wrote:
> > It looks 'p4 add' can not recursively add files.
> >
> >

jack@stanleyfamily.us (motojack) wrote in message news:<181c6ad7.0401051310.3c38c32f@posting.google.com>...
> In Unix (or the windows command line), just do:
>
> find . -type f | p4 -x - add

Pardon? In the *Windows* command line? Uh, sure.

FIND: Parameter format not correct.

kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku) wrote in
news:cf333042.0401070825.4e11771e@posting.google.com:

> jack@stanleyfamily.us (motojack) wrote in message
> news:<181c6ad7.0401051310.3c38c32f@posting.google.com>...
>> In Unix (or the windows command line), just do:
>>
>> find . -type f | p4 -x - add
>
> Pardon? In the *Windows* command line? Uh, sure.
>
> FIND: Parameter format not correct.
>

Windows version of above command is:

dir /b/s/a-d | p4 -x - add

See "dir /?" for explanation of params (and experiment).

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Robert Cowham