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Perforce 2009.2: P4 User's Guide



List of Examples
Preface About This Manual
Command line versus GUIs
Getting started with Perforce
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Chapter 1 Installing P4
Installing P4 on UNIX and OS X
Installing P4 on Windows
Verifying the installation
Chapter 2 Configuring P4
Configuration overview
What is a client workspace?
How Perforce manages the workspace
Configuring Perforce settings
Using the command line
Using config files
Using environment variables
Using the Windows registry
Defining client workspaces
Verifying connections
Refining client views
Specifying mappings
Using wildcards in client views
Mapping part of the depot
Mapping files to different locations in the workspace
Mapping files to different filenames
Rearranging parts of filenames
Excluding files and directories
Avoiding mapping conflicts
Mapping different depot locations to the same workspace location
Dealing with spaces in filenames and directories
Mapping Windows workspaces across multiple drives
Using the same workspace from different machines
Changing the location of your workspace
Configuring workspace options
Configuring submit options
Configuring line-ending settings
Deleting client workspace specifications
Security
Passwords
Connection time limits
Working with Unicode servers
Chapter 3 Issuing P4 Commands
Command-line syntax
Specifying filenames on the command line
Perforce wildcards
Restrictions on filenames and identifiers
Specifying file revisions
Reporting commands
Using Perforce forms
Chapter 4 Managing Files and Changelists
Managing files
Syncing (retrieving) files
Adding files
Changing files
Discarding changes (reverting)
Deleting files
Managing changelists
Creating numbered changelists
Submitting changelists
Deleting changelists
Renaming and moving files
Shelving work in progress
Displaying information about changelists
Diffing files
Working offline
Finding changed files
Submitting your changes
Chapter 5 Resolving Conflicts
How conflicts occur
How to resolve conflicts
Your, theirs, base and merge files
Options for resolving conflicts
Accepting yours, theirs, or merge
Editing the merge file
Merging to resolve conflicts
Full list of resolve options
Resolve command-line flags
Resolve reporting commands
Locking files
Preventing multiple resolves by locking files
Preventing multiple checkouts
Chapter 6 Codelines and Branching
Basic terminology
Organizing the depot
Branching
When to branch
Creating branches
Integrating changes
Integrating using branch specifications
Integrating between unrelated files
Integrating specific file revisions
Reintegrating and reresolving files
Integration reporting
Using labels
Tagging files with a label
Untagging files
Previewing tagging results
Listing files tagged by a label
Listing labels that have been applied to files
Using a label to specify file revisions
Deleting labels
Creating a label for future use
Restricting files that can be tagged
Using static labels to archive workspace configurations
Using automatic labels as aliases for changelists or other revisions
Preventing inadvertent tagging and untagging of files
Chapter 7 Defect Tracking
Managing jobs
Searching jobs
Searching job text
Searching specific fields
Using comparison operators
Searching date fields
Fixing jobs
Linking automatically
Linking manually
Linking jobs to changelists
Chapter 8 Scripting and Reporting
Common flags used in scripting and reporting
Scripting with Perforce forms
File reporting
Displaying file status
Displaying file revision history
Listing open files
Displaying file locations
Displaying file contents
Displaying annotations (details about changes to file contents)
Monitoring changes to files
Changelist reporting
Listing changelists
Listing files and jobs affected by changelists
Label reporting
Branch and integration reporting
Job reporting
Listing jobs
Listing jobs fixed by changelists
System configuration reporting
Displaying users
Displaying workspaces
Listing depots
Sample script
Appendix A Glossary
Appendix B Perforce File Types
Perforce file types
File type modifiers
Specifying how files are stored in the server
Assigning File Types for Unicode Files
Choosing the file type
Perforce file type detection and Unicode
Overriding file types
Preserving timestamps
Expanding RCS keywords
Index


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