[p4] Perforce free 20 users 20 workspaces unlimited files server

[scuttlemonkey]

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[nlyxe]

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Hello,

I understand that the free users version of Perforce allows 20 free users AND 20
free workspaces (unlimited files). Is a depot considered as a workspace ? Lets
say I have 10 projects, a workspace for each one, so 10 workspace, and a depot
for each projects, means I only have 10 workspaces + 10 depots?

Thank you!



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[Matt Attaway]

You can have all the depots you like. Depots are really just glorified directories; you can map as many depots in your workspaces as you like.

Workspaces are usually per machine, so if you have a laptop and a desktop you'd most likely use 2 workspaces, one for each machine. Every user will have their own workspace. Those workspaces can map as many files from as many depots as you like.



> On Jul 4, 2014, at 9:20 AM, nlyxe <perforce-user-***@forums.perforce.com> wrote:
>
>
> Posted on behalf of forum user 'nlyxe'.
>
> Hello,
>
> I understand that the free users version of Perforce allows 20 free users AND 20
> free workspaces (unlimited files). Is a depot considered as a workspace ? Lets
> say I have 10 projects, a workspace for each one, so 10 workspace, and a depot
> for each projects, means I only have 10 workspaces + 10 depots?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
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[nlyxe]

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Ok thank you.

You said ''Workspaces are usually per machine, so if you have a laptop
and a desktop you'd most likely use 2 workspaces, one for each machine.
Every user will have their own workspace.''

So if I have one machine with two users working on it. I will use 2 workspaces
(one for each users) licences even if they work on the sames files/project ?



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[Robert Cowham]

While it is possible for 2 users to share the same workspace (on the same
machine), it is usually a bad idea since they might get in each other's way
and try and change the same files at the same time.

If they used 2 separate workspaces then Perforce would help them manage
their concurrent work.


On 4 July 2014 19:40, nlyxe <perforce-user-***@forums.perforce.com> wrote:

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> Posted on behalf of forum user 'nlyxe'.
>
> Ok thank you.
>
> You said ''Workspaces are usually per machine, so if you have a laptop
>
> and a desktop you'd most likely use 2 workspaces, one for each machine.
> Every user will have their own workspace.''
>
> So if I have one machine with two users working on it. I will use 2
> workspaces
> (one for each users) licences even if they work on the sames files/project
> ?
>
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[nlyxe]

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Ok thank you!



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[UnstoppableDrew]

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JonY, on 2014/08/14 18:44:58 UTC, said:
> I'm considering migrating from SVN but I'm having a little trouble understanding what constitutes a workspace.
>
> If I have a depot with modular shared code used across all projects and another depot with project specific code + assets, can they both be checked out into the same workspace? Or would the shared libraries be checked out into one workspace and the project code / assets be checkout out into another?
>
> What about other projects? Could I use one workspace to juggle multiple projects? Thanks
>
Think of a workspace as your window into the source tree. Older SCMs like
Subversion tend to be all or nothing. You svn co some_project and you get
everything under some_project. With Perforce workspaces, you can define
specifically what stuff you want, in a variety of ways. To your question above,
you absolutely can create a single workspace that pulls in sources from one
depot, and assets from another.

Working with multiple projects generally is done with multiple workspaces. Kind
of depends on your exact setup, but for example, when I'm dealing with
multiple branches of a products source tree, say mainline, devproject_1,
devproject_2: I will have a workspace for each branch, that maps only the code
on that branch. This especially gets important as your code base grows.



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