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Branch

You can configure default behaviors for the Branch dialog.

• Specify the default branch method that appears when the dialog opens:

  • Specify source and target files: The dialog prompts you to select source and target files
  • Branch mapping: The dialog prompts you to select a branch mapping

  • Remember my last choice: The dialog opens with the branch method you used the last time you opened the dialog

    You can set different default branch methods depending on whether you open the Branch dialog from a non-stream file or folder or a submitted changelist.

    Note

    You cannot set the branch method that appears by default when you open the Branch dialog from a stream object or branch mapping, since the branch method for a stream object is always Specify source and target files and the branch method for a branch mapping is always Branch mapping.

• Specify how to treat the files that you use to filter a branch mapping:

  • Source: The files that you include are treated as the source
  • Target: The files that you include are treated as the target
  • Remember my last choice: The dialog treats the files the way it did the last time you opened the dialog

• Specify which Options tab appears on top when the Branch dialog opens:

  • Submit
  • Filter
  • Advanced
  • Remember my last choice

• Specify the default Submit options:

  • Add files to pending changelist or Automatically submit branched files
  • Pending changelist: Default or new

• Specify the default Advanced option:

  • Do not copy newly branched target files to workspace (-v): Create a branch in the depot without retrieving the corresponding files from the depot to your workspace.

Click Restore Defaultsto change the settings back to P4V’s defaults.

For more information about these options, see Creating Branches.