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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Subversion on Perforce Projects [migrated]
I have a project that's currently in a Perforce repository. Unfortunately, due to some testing restrictions, I have a test machine (private build of something that resembles linux) that, for whatever ...
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Configuring p4 on Solaris
I'm trying to configure p4 (perforce) on Solaris, but have had no success. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?
Reference:
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Why can't I delete my depot on Perforce?
I'm just messing around in a local Perforce database, trying to figure out how I can reset Perforce back to a previous state without journaling or deleting and recreating the database files.
I have ...
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Ubuntu Perforce client temporary directory
I am having trouble setting the location of the temporary directory for the Perforce visual client (p4v) on Ubuntu 11.10.
Basically it is currently set to the current working directory. I want the ...
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How can I define a default client view in Perforce?
When creating a new client workspace in Perforce, the default view contains the entire depot (or, more correctly, all of the depots defined on the server). This is never needed, yet new users often ...
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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 ...
