Can you "ignore" a directory in P4V?

Question

We use Visual Studio, which generates lots of bin and obj directories. When I use P4V's "Reconcile Offline Work" feature, these appear in the "Local files not in depot" list.

I'd like to exclude them. I found this question, but that talks about files, and when I try what it suggests (adding the following to my workspace view), it doesn't work:

//depot/Foo/... //Client/Foo/...
-//depot/Foo/.../*.user //Client/Foo/.../*.user
-//depot/Foo/.../bin/... //Client/Foo/.../bin/...
-//depot/Foo/.../obj/... //Client/Foo/.../obj/...

It doesn't actually seem to work for files, either: the foo.csproj.user files are still displayed in the list.

Can I exclude directories from P4V? If so, how? What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

This is somewhat tricky, because there is no built-in way to exclude a directory from a Perforce command. You can have a look at a short perforce article for this problem.

Answer 2

The syntax of your exclusion rules is just a little off. What you want is this:

-//depot/Foo.../*.user //Client/Foo.../*.user
-//depot/Foo...bin/... //Client/Foo...bin/...
-//depot/Foo...obj/... //Client/Foo...obj/...

Note the missing slashes after "Foo" and before "bin" and "obj".

Answer 3

I would go ahead with the Reconcile Offline Work and do everything but the submit. Before the submit, do the following:

p4 revert //Client/Foo/.../*.user

p4 revert //Client/Foo/.../bin/...

p4 revert //Client/Foo/.../obj/...

It's not automated, but that's the best I can think of at the moment.

Answer 4

This may not be relevant, but if there are spaces in any of your paths you need to ensure you have correctly enclosed them in "" but dont enclose the - inside the quotes.