[SCM-113] Support persistent and transient clientspecs

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-3
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-3
• Component/s: maven-scm-provider-perforce
• Assignee: Mike Perham
• Reporter: Mike Perham
• Created: 14/Dec/05 09:15
• Updated: 13/Mar/06 04:07
• Resolved: 16/Jan/06 14:30

Description

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.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: CONTINUUM-584 Continuum needs to set checkouts persistent