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Preface: About This Manual

Command line versus GUIs

Getting started with Perforce

Perforce documentation

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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
Displaying information about changelists

Diffing files

Working detached
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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Perforce 2008.2 P4 User's Guide
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Last updated: 12/05/08