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 the TCP connection is resetting when its trying to communicate with the … Read more
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). Setting up a Multibranch job, I’m provided with a dropdown list under Branch Sources called Add … Read more
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 whole situation: user@host:~$ echo $PATH /opt/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games user@host:~$ which p4 /opt/bin/p4 user@host:~$ ls -l … Read more
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 print, edit, and save changes to the offending line. So … Read more
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 of files could be recovered? Answer As far as I … Read more
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 work; a p4 sync is causing the p4 proxy … Read more
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? Answer Use GPG to encrypt the file before commiting to your repo. Yes, it’s cumbersome (you won’t be able to diff/merge/etc. … Read more
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 intellectual property (BTW, Perforce talks loudly about this and in relation to … Read more
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 enabled by ‘p4 protect’”. What is the standard … Read more
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 with before resolve – edit or revert. It seems no matter what I do, I am unable to make … Read more
