It seems that Maven/Continuum/SCM/Perforce plugin creates a perforce clientspec dynamically. Which works fine when I use maven directly. When I run mvn X scm:update things work ok. I see a spec created, a sync and then the spec is deleted. Since the spec is new each time, it refetches everything everytime, which we can live with. Although it would be nice if the system could determine what was changed, added or deleted and only update those files. Which is one reason I would prefer a fixed and static clientspec that would be setup and reused for each project.
We have setup a set of inter-dependant projects in continuum. The Perforce SCM seems to have the following problems: 1. When I look at the build results of any given project. The changes section always includes the files from the project that was previously run along with all of the files from the existing project. (Files in the previous project are prefixed by the //DepotName/main/packages/filename whereas the files from the real project are prefixed by src/main/packages/filename). It appears to me that the clientspec is not deleted at the end of the build. Instead the same clientspec is being reused. I think this confuses Perforce. Yet when running mvn scm:update thing appear to be done properly. 2. Files that are deleted from the perforce repository are never deleted from the continuum working directories. Clean only cleans target files not src files as it should. If you are generating clientspecs on the fly, dont we need to delete the src directories so that deleted files are removed? Has anyone experienced similar problems with Continuums perforce SCM and dynamically generated clientspecs? Have you found solutions to these problems? Does anyone know how to configure the system to use static clientspecs? I tried using the below mentioned arguments ( in continuum ) and that didn't help. Goal : clean deploy Argument : -Dmaven.scm.perforce.clientspec.name=edrapi-19 --batch-mode --non-recursive thanks & regards --Prashanth __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
