Perforce 2009.2: P4 User's Guide

List of Examples

Preface About This Manual

Chapter 1 Installing P4

Chapter 2 Configuring P4

Using config files to handle switching between two workspaces

Setting the client view

Mapping part of the depot to the client workspace

Multiple mappings in a single client view

Files with different names in the depot and client workspace

Using positional specifiers to rearrange filenames and directories

Using views to exclude files from a client workspace

Erroneous mappings that conflict

Overlaying multiple directories in the same workspace

Dealing with spaces in filenames and directories

Chapter 3 Issuing P4 Commands

Using different syntaxes to refer to the same file

Retrieving files using revision specifiers

Removing all files from the client workspace

Listing changes using revision ranges

Chapter 4 Managing Files and Changelists

Copying files from the depot to a client workspace

Adding files to a changelist

Submitting a changelist to the depot

Opening a file for edit

Reverting a file

Deleting a file from the depot

Working with multiple changelists

Automatic renumbering of changelists

Shelving a changelist

Unshelving a changelist for code review

Handing off files to other users

Discarding shelved files before submitting a change.

Chapter 5 Resolving Conflicts

Resolving file conflicts

Automatically accepting particular revisions of conflicting files

Chapter 6 Codelines and Branching

Creating a branch using a file specification

Propagating changes between branched files

Integrating changes to a single file in a branch

Integrating specific file revisions

Retrieving files tagged by a label into a client workspace

Using a label view to control which files can be tagged

Using an automatic label as an alias for a changelist number

Referring specifically to the set of files submitted in a single changelist.

Referring to the first revision of every file over multiple changelists.

Chapter 7 Defect Tracking

Creating a job

Searching jobs for specific words

Finding jobs that contain any of a set of words in any field

Finding jobs that contain words in specific fields

Excluding jobs that contain specified values in a field

Using dates within expressions

Automatically linking jobs to changelists

Manually linking jobs to changelists

Chapter 8 Scripting and Reporting

Using p4 annotate to display changes to a file

Sample shell script showing parsing of p4 fstat command output

Appendix A Glossary

Appendix B Perforce File Types

Index