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From some instructions on an internal engineering wiki:
"If you haven't already done so, create one or more changes via 'p4 change' that contains the files you would like to use for your build. If you don't know how to do this, ask your office mate. If neither of you knows, use Google. If you still can't figure it out, I really don't think anything I can say here can help you."
In addition to gratifying that part of me that's occasionally tempted to slip the sentence, "If you have to ask, you'll never know," into an FAQ, I'm struck by the author's instinctive understanding of how people seek technical information: ask a friend, ask Google, but consult the perfectly good documentation for the software in question? No, that would be weird!
"If you haven't already done so, create one or more changes via 'p4 change' that contains the files you would like to use for your build. If you don't know how to do this, ask your office mate. If neither of you knows, use Google. If you still can't figure it out, I really don't think anything I can say here can help you."
In addition to gratifying that part of me that's occasionally tempted to slip the sentence, "If you have to ask, you'll never know," into an FAQ, I'm struck by the author's instinctive understanding of how people seek technical information: ask a friend, ask Google, but consult the perfectly good documentation for the software in question? No, that would be weird!
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