Support persistent and transient clientspecs
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Key: SCM-113
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-113
Project: Maven SCM
Type: New Feature
Components: maven-scm-provider-perforce
Versions: 1.0-beta-3
Reporter: mike perham
Fix For: 1.0-beta-3
Continuum needs a persistent clientspec because it needs to update a project's
source code and build it once an hour. On larger projects a complete resync
might take 10-20 minutes so it is necessary to keep a clientspec around for
that Continuum project build so syncs only take a few seconds.
However, the Maven Release plugin may need to be used by tens or even hundreds
of developers to release any number of small modules. Currently this would
mean lots of clientspecs being created for the release checkout which are
reused very infrequently. Here I would prefer to create the clientspec, do the
checkout, build and then delete the clientspec. This is what I term a
transient clientspec.
The Perforce plugin would need to default to one mode and support some sort of
hint which tells it which mode to operate in.
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