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Perforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system provided by Perforce Software. It generally requires a connection from the clients to the appropriate server while the managed documents are being modified, and boasts such features as atomic commits and controlled access to ...

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Emacs doesn't follow symlinks into Perforce repositories

In Emacs, I set vc-follow-symlinks to t. It follows symlinks into Git repositories with no problem. However, it fails to follow links into Perforce repositories. I usually set ...
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Installing Perforce client on Ubuntu

I am trying to install perforce on my Ubuntu machine, after I untar the .tgz file, I get two folders lib and bin. Where would be the executable or how do I install it correctly? Thanks.
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How to copy a Read-Only file and make the copy writable with a single cp command?

How to copy a Read-Only file in Linux and make the copy writable with a single cp command in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)? The --no-preserve and --preserve seemed to be good candidates, except that they ...
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Perforce and how to create symbolic links on samba share in Windows

I am using Perforce and have Workspace of project under Linux. The project contains many symbolic links. I have no problems with Perforce and the symbolic links as long as I work on Linux. However, if ...
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What is causing an application to work again after re-enabling the network?

We are using a client/server versioning system (Perforce). Randomly, a client gets disconnected and is only able to reconnect when the user disables and re-enables the network card. The weird thing is ...
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perforce client connection

this is a real basic question but I was struggling at it from 30 mins. I am using perforce and I want to access my colleagues workspace for accessing data report which we are working on together. How ...
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Can't Execute Binary on Ubuntu

I can't believe I'm asking this...clearly I'm in rare form today. Trying to setup a new Ubuntu machine and just downloaded 'p4' (Perforce command line client). It's a single file download - a ...
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Error installing Perforce plugin (P4WSAD) to Zend Studio 7

I am running Zend Studio build 20090901 I am trying to install the Perforce plugin but I receive this error: An error occurred while collecting items to be installed session context ...
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Any way to get P4V to work with older servers?

I use P4V as a Perforce client. I updated to 2009.1 to get some major bug fixes, and it seems they removed the ability to connect to older clients. I do work for a few clients, and 5/6 depots I have ...