Work offline

The preferred method of working offline (without access to the Helix Server) is to use DVCS (distributed versioning) features. For details, refer to Using Helix Core Server for Distributed Versioning.

If you work offline, you must manually reconcile your work with the Helix Server service when you regain access to it. The following method for working detached assumes that you work on files in your workspace or update the workspace with your additions, changes, and deletions before you update the depot:

To work offline:

1. Work on files without issuing p4 commands. Instead, use operating system commands to change the permissions on files.
2. After the network connection is re-established, use p4 status or p4 reconcile to find all files in your workspace that have changed.
3. Submit the resulting changelist(s).

To detect changed files, issue the p4 status or p4 reconcile commands. The commands perform essentially the same function, but differ in their default behavior and output format.

Command	Description
p4 reconcile	When called without arguments, p4 reconcile opens the files in a changelist. To preview an operation, you must either use the -n option with p4 reconcile, or use the p4 status command.
p4 status	When called without arguments, p4 status only previews the results of the workspace reconciliation. You must use either p4 status -A (or some combination of the -e, -a, or -d options) to actually open the files in a changelist.