About This Manual

This manual documents every Perforce command and environment variable. This manual is intended for users who prefer to learn by means of UNIX-style man pages, and for users who already understand the basics of Perforce and need to quickly find information on a specific command.

Function	Where to look
Help	p4 help, p4 info, File Specifications, Views, Global Options, File Types
Client workspace	p4 client, p4 clients, p4 flush, p4 have, p4 sync, p4 where, p4 workspace, p4 workspaces
Files	p4 add, p4 delete, p4 diff, p4 diff2, p4 dirs, p4 edit, p4 files, p4 fstat, p4 move, p4 lock, p4 print, p4 rename, p4 revert, p4 sizes, p4 unlock
Changelists	p4 change, p4 changelist, p4 changes, p4 changelists, p4 describe, p4 filelog, p4 opened, p4 reopen, p4 review, p4 submit
Jobs	p4 fix, p4 fixes, p4 job, p4 jobs, p4 jobspec
Branching and Merging	p4 branch, p4 branches, p4 integrate, p4 integrated, p4 label, p4 labels, p4 labelsync, p4 tag, p4 resolve, p4 resolved
Administration	p4 admin, p4 counter, p4 counters, p4 depot, p4 depots, p4 license, p4 logger, p4 logtail, p4 monitor, p4 obliterate, p4 reviews, p4 triggers, p4 typemap, p4 verify
Security	p4 group, p4 groups, p4 login, p4 logout, p4 passwd, p4 protect, p4 protects, p4 tickets, p4 user, p4 users
Environment	p4 browse, p4 set, Environment and Registry Variables, P4AUDIT, P4CHARSET, P4COMMANDCHARSET, P4CLIENT, P4CONFIG, P4DEBUG, P4DESCRIPTION, P4DIFF, P4DIFFUNICODE, P4EDITOR, P4HOST, P4JOURNAL, P4LANGUAGE, P4LOG, P4MERGE, P4MERGEUNICODE, P4NAME, P4PAGER, P4PASSWD, P4PCACHE, P4PFSIZE, P4POPTIONS, P4PORT, P4ROOT, P4TARGET, P4TICKETS, P4USER, P4ZEROCONF, PWD, TMP, TEMP

If you'd prefer to learn the concepts on which Perforce is based, or you prefer a style featuring more examples and tutorials than what you find here, see the P4 User's Guide, available from our web site at: http://www.perforce.com.

Both the PDF and HTML versions of this manual have been extensively cross-referenced. When viewing the PDF manual online, you can read the description of any particular command by clicking on a reference to that command from any other chapter.