Using The File Browser

The File Browser allows you to view detailed information about a file, and to work on that file. You get to the File Browser by clicking on the file name portion of any of the files listed in the Path Browser. You can also get to the File Browser by clicking on any of the file links list in the Changelist Description page, the Submit Changelist page, or the Edit Pending Changelist page. (Note that if you are using a P4Web Viewer, some of the information, links and menu items described here won't be visible to you.)

The File Browser's control panel shows recent activity in the file you are currently browsing. The current file's full path and name appear below the control paned. Each component of the path is a link to a directory level in the Path Browser.

Detailed state information follows the current file heading. Type, Have, and Head show the file's filetype, the revision you have in your client workspace, and the head revision in the depot, respectively. Workspace shows the full path to the file as it appears in your workspace. If the file is opened by anyone else, or has been deleted in the depot, that information appears here as well.

By default, the File Browser page displays a a filelog showing the file's history. While the filelog is displayed you can:

• Click on a revision number to browse the contents of the file at that revision. (This assumes your browser recognizes the file type from its suffix.)
• Click on the word "change" to see what changed in that revision (available for text files only).
• Click on a changelist number to go to a Changelist Description page.

The File Browser's Show menu can be used to display information about the file's history:

• Filelog shows the complete history of the file, with links as described above.
• Submitted changelists gives a summary list of all changelists submitted to this file, with links to the corresponding Changelist Description pages.

• Depot file text shows text of the most recent version of the file in the depot.
• Workspace file text shows the text of the file that's in your workspace.
• Workspace diffs shows the changes you've made to the file that's in your workspace.
• Depot diffs shows the diffs between the version you're synced to and the most recent version in the depot.
• All diffs shows the diffs between the file that's in your workspace and the most recent version in the depot.

The File Browser's Run menu lets you run commands on the current file. The menu choices labelled with "..." will prompt you for more information; the other choices run the command immediately:

• Sync file... sync to any revision of this file.
• Launch editor -- brings up the workspace file in an editor window.
• Submit... submit just this file if it's open, or all the files in your default changelist.
• Open for edit... open this file for edit, optionally changing its type and putting it in a particular changelist.
• Open for delete... open this file for delete, optionally putting it in a particular changelist.
• Remove from workspace removes the file from your workspace unless it's currently open.
• Integrate... open this file so changes from another file can be integrated to it.
• Resolve file... merge changes into the current file using a variety of options.
• Lock file if it's opened by you and not locked by someone else.
• Unlock file if it's locked by you.
• Revert if unchanged -- if you opened the file for edit but didn't change it, or if you opened the file for integrate but didn't resolve it, the file will be closed and taken off your pending changelist.
• Revert even though changed -- regardless of what you've done to your workspace file, close it, replace it with a new copy from the depot, and take it off your pending changelist. Warning: this will overwrite any changes you made to your workspace copy of the file!

These shortcut buttons are available on the File Browser page:

• Sync the file to the head revision.
• Open for edit in default changelist, with no filetype change.
• Open for delete in default changelist.
• Show all diffs ( the differences between your workspace file and the head revision of the file in the depot).
• Show text of the head revision of the depot file.
• Show filelog (file history).
• Show extended filelog - include history of the file(s) this file was branched from.
• Go to the Submit Default Changelist page.
• Lock the file if you have it opened for edit.
• Unlock the file if you have it locked.
• Revert if unchanged (see above)