How to sync multiple perforce workspaces

Question

I have multiple workspaces in Perforce, say w1, w2, w3,... all with different mappings that may or may not point to different folders in the same depot(s). I want to write a .bat file that syncs them automatically and in sequence as not to put stress on the server.

Optimally, I want to start this off automatically and have it first sync w1, after it's done have it sync w2, and so on. Assume I don't have any environment variables set, so if they're necessary, please let me know.

How would go about doing this?

Answer 1

If you don't want to set up any P4 environment variables, you could use the global options and do something like this:

p4 -u <user> -P <password> -p <port> login
p4 -u <user> -P <password> -p <port> -c <workspace1> sync //path/to/sync/...
p4 -u <user> -P <password> -p <port> -c <workspace2> sync //other/path/...
p4 -u <user> -P <password> -p <port> -c <workspace3> sync //yet/another/path/...

If you set up the P4USER, P4PASSWD, and P4PORT P4 environment variables (see the p4 set command), then you could clean it up a little to look like this:

p4 login
p4 -c <workspace1> sync //path/to/sync/...
p4 -c <workspace2> sync //other/path/...
p4 -c <workspace3> sync //yet/another/path/...