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P4 change ownership through command line
I have a specific use case where I need to create a button (Custom Tools) within Perforce in which it enables the user to right-click a pending changelist with checked out files and it will shelve the ...
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How do I fix the Helix Swarm config so it pings the correct hostname
I have gotten Helix Core and Helix Swarm installed as a server extension on my server. When I initially configured it I set the hostname to swarmhostname because I didn't have a DNS record set up.
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Perforce error - Path '/Users/aa/Documents' is not under client's root '/Users/aa/Documents/perforce/p4_project'
I've come across many posts online, but it seems that this issue is a bit different or perhaps I'm unable to find another article that addresses the problem.
I'm encountering the error Path '/Users/aa/...
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How do I rename a file in Perforce, then add another file with the old name of the first file?
Let's say that I have a file A.txt. I want to rename it to B.txt. I execute
p4 add A.txt
p4 rename A.txt B.txt
I would now like to add a new file A.txt in the same changelist.
When I execute
p4 add A....
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perforce add file report wildcards (*, %%x, ...) not allowed in '<path>'
I am using perforce to add files but report：perforce add file report wildcards (*, %%x, ...) not allowed in '<path>'
I've tried using -n -f but still doesn't work：
$ p4 add -f -n //space-web/...
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P4ignore ignore changes, but allow adds and deletes
I have bumped into an extreme edge case. I need to have an Ableton project in our perforce, and Ableton does not have any kind of source control integration.
For the project to function correctly, we ...
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Is it possible to map a Perforce depot subpath to the workspace root folder?
In a depot with a folder structure like:
depot
subFolder1
subSubFolder1
subSubFolder2
subfolder2
Is it possible to map just //depot/subFolder1/... to the workspace root on the ...
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Are there any drawbacks to running Perforce server in case-insensitive mode on Linux?
In the process migrating a Perforce server from a Windows server to a Linux one, the migration guide lists a lot of meticulous steps for converting the depot's case sensitivity, using the p4migrate ...
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Perforce get latest change CL# [duplicate]
In my perforce workspace, I run these 3 commands:
# 1
p4 changes -m1 ./...
Change 11111111 on 2020/01/01 by abc@def 'Jan 1'
#2
p4 changes -m1
Change 11112222 on 2020/02/01 by abc@def 'Feb 1'
#3
p4 ...
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Does P4 preserve file history of a copied/integrated file whose integration source is deleted?
For example, there is a file in my Perforce depot at //my_depot/my_stream/my_folder/file.txt, which has a long revision history. Due to a refactor, the file is then copied (integrated) to //my_depot/...
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Perforce: Get list of changelists before and after a changelist
Lets say i have a change list 1234
I want to see the details of changelists before and after 1234
Is there a command to do that?
I am new to P4 and find it not that great compared to git, basically i ...
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Is it possible to connect to old p4 depots after a system format?
I am running a local p4 server for personal usage, and I had to re-install windows on my machine recently which erased all my data. Now I tried to re-install perforce in the same machine after the ...
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How to run p4 console command if I use p4v client
I installed Client p4v from oficial site. I can use only Gui. But I can not use p4 console application. How can I run p4 from console?
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How to calculate number of lines of code which every programmer added or removed in perforce version control
I want get statistic about how many every developer added and removed lines of code in perforce version control system in all changelist in all time. The result must be like:
user
added
removed
...
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How do Perforce streams handle subpaths with different access than parent path?
For configuration of streams in Perforce, there exist five access types (according to documentation, in order more-to-less-inclusive): share, isolate, import/import+, exclude. They are placed in the ...
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