perforce server settings

Question

Is it possible to set the Perforce server to by default don't let the users check out a directory, instead of letting everybody update their view-spec to exclude that directory?

Eg: if you would like to check out //code/heavy/stuff you must explicitly add that directory to your view-spec instead of adding a -//code/heavy/stuff yo your spec.

Answer 1

If you just want to block people from getting it, then it might be possible with permission mapping.

But then they would never by able to access it, even if they change their client spec.

Maybe you need to (re-)structure your repository so that the heavy part isn't in most users' client specs.