[p4dti-discussion] Filespecs and Issues

[Nick Barnes]

At 2005-11-11 10:45:43+0000, Nick Barnes writes:
> At 2005-11-11 07:03:16+0000, Stephen Vance writes:
> 
> > Am I missing something? Why are filespecs linked to issues rather 
> > than changelists?
> 
> In order to specify relations such as "this issue was found on this
> branch" or "this defect is being fixed on this branch".

Sorry, I hit "Send" too soon.

See the note at the end of section 2.3 of the IG:

    The P4DTI replicates the filespec relation in order to support use
    cases like "Associate revisions of documents with task" and "Check
    out copies of revisions of documents associated with task" and to
    support defect trackers like DevTrack by TechExcel that provide a
    revision control interface based on associating documents with an
    issue.  However, because the currently supported defect tracker
    (Bugzilla) has no such feature, and because alpha and beta testing
    showed no demand for use cases involving associating documents
    with tasks, we haven't made any use of this relation (for example,
    it's not documented in the user's guide).  However, it's there if
    you need it for integrating with your defect tracker.

This sums it up quite well.  It's cruft, really, and might go away in
some future release.  In the meantime, if you're developing an
integration, you can just ignore filespec replication.

Nick B