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wip: add helper script to dump perforce instance state

Warren Gifford requested to merge whatever into main

Created by: ggilmore

I won't provide an example of the output (for fear of leaking something), but you can run it once you set the environment variables as described in https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/departments/ce-support/support/process/p4-enablement/

For now, this is a relatively simple script that can be used of a perforce instance that you point it to. This includes:

  • list of users
  • list of groups
  • list of depots
  • mapping of user-to-group assignments
  • p4 protection table for everything / from the perspective of individual users / from the perspective individual groups

The idea I had is that this script could be used to "dump" the state of a perforce instance, which could be helpful with:

  1. Drift detection - you can put the output of the script in version control - and see if the output of the script changes - which could incidate that someone edited the instance in a way that your tests didn't expect
  2. calculating some aggregate information (like user-to-group) mappings from an instance which could be tedious / error-prone to repeatedly do by hand

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