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Can user have private area on Perforce server ?
This area will be used by user to check-in code/files for which exact target branch is undecided.
Also this area wont be shared, so this code is not visible to any other user other than himself. Not visible to other users should be preferred but not a must to have.
At our company, we have a Sandboxes portion of the depot, with individual users having directories underneath that. It doesn’t use any permissions or anything technical from Perforce to enforce this, but it is generally understood that a user’s sandbox area is just for that use, liable to have broken or partial code, and shouldn’t be relied upon for anything (or even to exist in the same form from one day to the next).
We also have some sandboxes for specific projects that show up once in a while. It might make other users curious, depending on how the sandbox was named, but the same general idea applies to them – just with a few more users working in the area, so a little bit less likely to arbitrarily change.
One benefit of this is the ability to tell another user that they can pull some changes made in a sandbox, or look at them for ideas, if desired. You would lose that possibility with restrictive permissions.