[MonoDevelop] perforce addin for monodevelop

[Lluis Sanchez Gual]

El dv 05 de 03 de 2010 a les 07:15 +0000, en/na Ian Norton va escriure:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I've been making good progress on my perforce support addin, but have
> hit a bit of a wall.
> 
> Basically, perforce differs from other VCS in a number of ways, the most
> significant is that you have to tell the perforce server what your local
> working directory is. In perforce this is called the workspace root.
> 
> I am treating each perforce workspace as a single repository.
> 
> The best way to think of a perforce "workspace" is a set of mount points
> on your local workstation that map to places (and points in time) on the
> perforce server.
> 
> You might have:
> 
>  Client:  monodevelop
>  Root:    /home/inb/Projects/p4/monodevelop
>  View:
>    //path/to/depot/stuff/monodevelop/... //monodevelop/...
> 
> This means that the local folder path becomes significant for a given
> perforce repository. For this workspace (perforce uses "Client" and
> "Workspace" to mean the same thing) /home/inb/Projects/p4/monodevelop is
> where perforce maps the content of //path/to/depot/stuff/monodevelop/
> 
> My repository needs to know what the user has chosen for the local
> directory or be able to set this itself. My PerfroceRepositoryEditor
> cannot do this partly due to SelectRepositoryDialog being an internal
> class.
> 
> I cannot get access to set the contents of the parent
> SelectRepositoryDialog.entryFolder entry box based on the chosen
> perforce workspace. If I could, then I can use this to tell perforce. 

When MD needs to get a repository for a specific local directory, it
always calls VersionControlSystem.GetRepositoryReference (path,someId).
You can override that method and do any initialization you need on the
repository instance.

Lluis.