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Perforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system.

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 the repository. Perforce Software provides a comparison to some other revision control systems (and a glossary of common terms on the same page).

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How do I unsubmit a previously committed Perforce change list?

I just submitted a Perforce (p4) changelist that I need to make a small modification to in order to correct a build. How do I unsubmit a recently submitted p4 changelist?
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Compliance in DVCS administration at an enterprise context, what to expect from a transition from a CVCS (Perforce)?

I work in a big multinational company as a software engineer and I'm currently holding a very nice conversation with IT and other developers with regards to adopting a DVCS (Mercurial and/or Git). One of the issues raised by IT was compliance and…
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Perforce: File tampered with after resolve - edit or revert

I'm doing an integration in Perforce and am being met with the following: p4 integrate -1 -d -i -t -r -b my_branchspec //Foo/file.txt#6 - integrate from //Bar/file.txt#6 p4 resolve -am /Foo/file.txt - merging //Bar/file.txt#6 /Foo/file.txt tampered…
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How to log in as a user in p4

I have an issue where users are trying to log in to their perforce account using p4 (not p4v), but it seems to start at a default account without permissions. When they try to logout with p4 logout, they get "Access for user "foo" has not been…
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Perforce Proxy Server: Caching selective files

I just set up a Perforce proxy server for work. I'm noticing the cache directory is filling up very quickly -- with files I know I will never need. For example, there is a 'sandbox' directory in the depot where users keep personal branches and other…
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Can Perforce backup files?

From reading the Perforce docs it sounds like only changelists and version history can be backed up. Is it possible to get Perforce to create a backup of files too, so that in the event of loss, through hardware failure for example, a complete set…
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Revision control of sensitive configuration files

Consider a file with user-read-only permissions, for example ... -r--------+ admin secrets.txt How can such a file be put under revision control, so that its contents remain secret, even from the revision control administrator?
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p4 - I've got no such file or directory - when in reality it exists

I have installed p4 command line client on the server, and something strange happened. It exists, has executable rights, but I cannot execute it beacause I got message that it does not exists. I will put terminal commands and output to describe…
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Perforce Restore From Multiple Checkpoint Files?

I am working with a very large (~11GB) checkpoint file and trying to do a -jr (journal restore) operation. About half way through the file, I'm hitting an entry which causes an error to occur. I'm unable to come up with a conventional way to…
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Running a command in Powershell and running the exe gives different results

This is really odd. I have a so called Perforce Helix server on my Windows 2016 server. Now on this server there is an exe called p4d now if i go to the Powershell and run p4d it runs the command starts the "correct" server and i am able to connect…
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Jenkins, Perforce and Multibranch, how to set up automatic branch detecting?

I'm setting up Jenkins with Pipeline (former Workflow) and trying to configure Multibranch. All documentation I find is about git and svn, but I'm stuck with using Perforce. I have installed all plugins, including p4 (the new Perforce plugin).…
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Maximum packet length reached?

Clients are having issues connecting to perforce revision server I have set up for them to use. It appears that they have too many checked out/added files that need to be put into the system and they are getting packet reseet issues. Specifically…
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how to get removed perforce binary files in /opt/perforce directory

When I run p4d and p4 I am getting [p4: command not found] I have no binary files p4d, p4 in /opt/perforce/ directory. So unable to run perforce server and client. I have tried with uninstalling perforce server and client. I am using…
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p4: No such file or directory - when in reality it exists

I have installed p4 command line client on the server, and something strange is happening. It exists, has executable rights, but I cannot execute it because I received an error message that it does not exists. I tried looking around, and everyone…
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Not able to connect to perforce server outside of localhost

My setup is a Qwest PK5000 router with a Linksys router running Tomato. I have DMZ pointed towards my router. (The server is on the tomato router). I tried my applications that open up sockets and Utorrent (port 6883) and I ended having to do…
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