Perforce - getting email on every checkin

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Is there a way to get Perforce to send you an email on every check to a particular depository?

Are you asking how to configure the perforce server to provide this functionality, or are you just asking as an end user? If the latter Jeff's answer should be sufficient, assuming your admin has setup the review daemon. — Logan Capaldo, Feb 25 '09 at 23:02
I was asking for the later. And, yup, Jeff's answer works for me. Brian's answer is also good to know. — Himadri Choudhury, Feb 26 '09 at 00:15

score 40 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 17 '17 at 19:14

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Yes. Type "p4 user" to see your user configuration and then under "Reviews:" put the filespec of the area in depot where you'd like to get notified on a check-in, as in:

Reviews:
    //depot/myproject/...

See this section of the P4 command reference for more info.

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answered Feb 25 '09 at 22:51

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What if you want to mail an email list, rather than a particular user? – Nick Mar 02 '10 at 19:51
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I suppose you could create a user that represented the list. I'm not sure of a more efficient way – Jeff Moser Mar 03 '10 at 22:55

score 20 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 01 '14 at 09:55

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In p4v (visual client)

Connection -> Edit Current User
Enter the path to your repository under Reviews

This is correct for OSX & Windows.

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answered May 23 '13 at 22:58

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Thanks. Can never remember where to find this feature. – Colonel Panic Feb 04 '15 at 10:52

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 01 '09 at 08:12

You want to install the Perforce Review Daemon script on your server. What it does is periodically poll the server for new changelists and sends an e-mail ONLY to the people interested in them. The script is maintained by Perforce and you can get help from the tech support to setup it.

You can download it from the Perforce website from the support site (towards the bottom of the page).

Perforce Support Site: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadsupp.html
Direct Link to Script: http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/reviewd/p4review.py

Once you have it installed you register your that your interested in changinglists by adding the filespec to your user account.

Is it possible to send the email before committing the changelist, just for review? Via a script of batch file? — codingbbq, May 07 '15 at 10:43
You could write a pre commit hook; I never done that. Also, I've moved on from wanting emails for every commit. I now recommend the pull request work flow to all our clients. — Dennis, May 07 '15 at 13:45

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 10 '13 at 15:19

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In the perforce visual client (P4V), go to Connection and Edit current User Under the user dialog box, go to the reviews tab. Select and deselect the different trees of the "depot"

answered Jun 10 '13 at 15:19

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 25 '09 at 22:59

As an admin you can use

p4 triggers

to setup scripts that are executed when various actions are performed (ie: on check in of a changelist). I've used it to send an email to a distribution list that all of the developers were part of so that they were aware of who was checking in what and when.

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