I want to create a unified diff or patch using p4 describe -du or p4 diff2 -u, to apply later with patch utility. But the problem I encounter that these commands skip the content of added/removed files. The closest I found so far is to use p4 describe -adu and then process added files content … Read more
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 to work with are new, but one is older (2002.2 I think). Does this … Read more
Summary: The Perforce command line p4 does not work correctly unless I open the shell from P4V. How/where do I edit things to fix my configuration so that it always works? Details On Windows 7×64, if I run cmd.exe and then use the p4 command line it attempts to connect to an old server that … Read more
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 should “and” the mode flags, while what I am looking for is something that will “or” them (add +w mode). More … Read more
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 statically-linked binary executable, so I just did: wget http://www.perforce.com/downloads/perforce/r09.2/bin.linux26x86/p4 …right into /usr/bin. Simple enough. Except: root@aj-ubuntu:/usr/bin# ll p4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root … Read more
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? Answer It’s actually pretty easy, you just copy (or move) everything in the bin directory to /usr/bin and everything in … Read more
I have many client-specs and workspaces defined for many different Perforce servers. I got a new computer and installed P4V client, but I can’t see any of my client-specs because they are all specific to the old computer. Is there any way to migrate this information without laboriously re-creating each client-spec and workspace on the … Read more
