Questions tagged [p4v]

P4V is the cross platform GUI for the Perforce revision control system.

P4V is the cross platform GUI for the Perforce revision control system. It replaced the now deprecated P4Win GUI, which was only available on Windows.

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"Actually, Perforce I don't want you tracking that file after all ..." how do I get Perforce to listen?

Sometimes I "Mark for Add" and add files to Perforce which I actually didn't want Perforce to worry about. Is there a way to revert it so it just goes back to showing in P4V as an "untracked" item? See my example: I've added mil.ico and mil3.ico by…
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How to remove a task stream from the depot view

I am a new Perforce 2014.1 user. The team has decided to work with a task stream for each new feature. Now that I have submitted my change and they have been merged to parent. I want to delete the task stream, which is the intended use from what I…
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How to delete Stream Depot in perforce

I use P4Admin to create Stream Depot (named streamDepot) in perforce, then I create a Stream(main) by client, I populated it with client workspace and with a project. But when I try to obliterate the files and delete that streamDepot depot with…
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Perforce p4 command line is not using same client as the one used in p4v

OS: Windows 7 64-bit P4V 2011.1 version + P4 command line client comes with P4V I've created a client on my "D:\Perforce\Client1 directory" with P4V and synced all files. When using p4 command line tool to check the same directory (using command: p4…
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Keyboard shortcuts for P4 Diff / P4 Folder Diff

I have searched the P4 documentation and knowledge bases and I cannot find if there are any keyboard shortcuts to perform common actions when diffing files. I know about the next and previous change (CTRL+1 and CTRL+2 respectively) however there…
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P4 Root and Altroot across Windows and Linux

I have a P4 client that I share across both Linux and Windows environment, using the 'Root' (Linux) and 'Altroot' parameters within the client spec ('Host' is removed). Does anyone know if it is possible to configure P4 to mirror the directories…
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How to untrack changes in Perforce changelist without modifying local files (P4V 2015.2)?

Note: this question is related to, but not a duplicate of How do you clear the default changelist without altering your worktree in Perforce. My argument is that, while similar, this question is specifically with regards to the P4V…
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visual studio 2015 can't connect to p4v, getting "object reference not set to an instance of an object"

System preferences: windows server 2012, visual studio 2015, p4v. My system booted yesterday (probably windows update). Since then, when I open visual studio 2015 IDE and try to connect to an existing workspace I used to connect before, I'm getting…
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How do I get Time Lapse View in P4Win?

In the past, on Windows XP machines, I was able to install P4V (the stupid platform-independent Perforce visual client that Perforce tries to shove down your throats), then after that, install P4Win (the wonderful clean robust mature visual client…
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How to filter change list by date?

I looked a bunch for a solution online. I need to get all submitted change lists between two dates. The find file does a good job at finding files changed between dates, but not change lists.
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Perforce - RpcTransport: partial message read

When using "revert -a" through P4V it waits for a few minutes and throws this error back at me. RpcTransport: partial message read TCP receive failed. read: socket: WSAECONNRESET The server status returns fine and there are no locked database…
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How do I delete client from a perforce server that won't start

I have finally got around to upgrading my perforce server to 2014. I had a single user Admin Licence, but didn't pay yearly upgrade as I though new free licence would suit me - 20 clients. I just removed the old licence file. I didn't realise I had…
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Perforce P4v: How to find file with a list of file to be find?

Is there a way or command to be use to find files using a list of files to be find in a directory? e.g. find the following files: text1.sql text2.sql text3.sql text4.sql text5.sql text6.sql Search in: c:\archive...
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Perforce: How to list overriden files that were not checked out?

There are cases when I override a file manually or automatically but didn't check out it in advance so that in p4v I see it as blue icon without red bird. Such file is not shown in pending list and I need to seek it in workspace tree. How to filter…
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Deleted Streams still present in Depot view in P4V

We're trying to delete streams for the depot that we no longer need. In the Graph View I right-clicked and selected delete stream. The stream was removed from the Graph View, however it is still present in the Depot view. We want to totally remove…
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