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In Perforce on Unix, how do you add a directory that is a symbolic link?


I have created a symbolic link directory in Unix and I would like to add it to perforce.

(this question relates to symlinks on Unix. Windows symbolic links can have very different behaviour from Unix.)

ln -s ../blah/dir1 dir2

If I right-click on "dir2" in the p4v GUI, it will add every file under ../blah/dir1 as a new file (even if these files are already in Perforce) and fubar everything.

If I do a "p4 add dir2" from the command line, it will add every file under ../blah/dir1 as a new file (even if these files are already in Perforce) and fubar everything.

What is the correct syntax?


Solution

  • Add the symbolic link from the shell using the -t option to set the symlink type.

    p4 add -t symlink dir2