Configuring the server

The Perforce service is highly configurable and this is accomplished through the setting of server, client, and proxy configurables. Available configurables number in the hundreds, and it is probably best to set them as you continue to work with the server. This chapter limits itself to describing the configurables you might initially want to configure before you begin working with the server.

The following areas are covered:

• Enabling distributed versioning
• Using p4 typemap to determine a file’s type and to implement site-wide exclusive locking
• Defining additional depots
• Managing client requests
• Managing case sensitivity and Unicode installations
• Configuring logging
• Configuring P4V settings

For complete information about using the p4 configure command and all available server, client, and proxy configurables, see P4 Command Reference and p4 help configurables.