Suppose that I have a large 3rd party source folder that I want to add to p4. If I directly add the folder to p4 via ‘p4 add’, p4 GUI will no longer function normally. It says “the selected Workspace folder has more than 1000000 depot files”.

I want to remove this from p4 and add it as symbolic links to external folder. How do I do this?

Suppose that I store this folder as /3rdparty/foo. My workspace folder is /p4_client_name/3rdparty. if I create a symbolic link to /3rdparty/foo under /p4_client_name/3rdparty, I cannot add /p4_client_name/3rdparty/foo to p4. p4 does not allow adding a symbolic link to absolute path. you can only add a symbolic link to relative path that exists in the depot already.

The only way around this that I can see is to change my p4 source code to refer to /3rdparty/foo explicitly, e.g. -I/3rdparty/foo, rather than through relative path -I../foo.

Thanks.