[cmake-developers] Perforce Patch for CTest

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Wed Oct 16 16:10:18 EDT 2013


On 10/16/2013 03:11 PM, Pedro Navarro wrote:
> I was thinking that as the test requires the p4 tool to be installed,
> we might as well require also p4d (the server, which is now free for
> up to 20 users). In that case the test can bring up a local server
> and work against it which, in the end, will create less issues as
> the p4 database will be deleted when the test ends. If we work against
> a real production server we might not be able to use p4 obliterate
> and we will be leaving those temporary checkins the test does
> polluting the history, and that might not be desired.

We definitely need the test to run against a fresh repository each
time.  The other VCS tool tests all create local repos from scratch
when they run.  Whatever you need to require to achieve this with
P4 is acceptable.

Thanks,
-Brad



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