[MonoDevelop] perforce addin for monodevelop

[Ian Norton]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:42 +0000, Lluis Sanchez Gual wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Lluis.

I'm still a bit confused, how does MD tell a repository what the top
level local directory it checks out into is? If I could get this then I
can setup a new perforce workspace, But I'd want to do this while the
user is still in the RepositoryEditor

Thanks

Ian

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