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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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What is the difference between "Rollback..." and "Back Out Submitted Changelist #####" in Perforce P4V

I want to reverse the changes from one of my checkins. In the right-click context menu of the particular changelist, there are these two options: Rollback... Back Out Submitted Changelist What is the difference between these two? In what…
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How to delete a workspace in Perforce (using p4v)?

I'm new to Perforce and have created a few workspaces as exercises for getting familiar with it. Now I would like to delete some of the workspaces. I just want to get rid of the workspaces so that they do not appear on the drop-down in the…
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How do I display a particular changelist number in p4v?

When viewing submitted changelists in p4v, is there a way to display a particular changelist number? That is, how I do the equivalent of p4 describe in p4v? Can I filter for a particular changelist number? I don't see how.
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What is the difference between P4V's Branch, Copy, Integrate/Merge

I am using P4v, and when i bring up the context-menu on a folder, i have these options:- - Integrate/Merge - Copy - Branch Seems to me like they are all doing the same thing. Is there any real difference in these commands? thanks.
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how to display list of updating files in p4v

While I sync code using p4v client, the Log window does not show the list of files which are updated. Is there any way to do that? p4win client does show the list though. Thank you.
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How do I delete a file from the perforce depot?

I have a file that I had earlier checked in at my company's depot, but after a lot of re-factoring, I don't need it anymore and need to delete it from the depot, and thereby from my workspace, using the p4v visual client (linux). Is there a way to…
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How to sync to specific folder using command line in Perforce

Suppose I have mapped my depot to client workspace as c:/perforce/project but now I want to sync all the files present in c:/perforce/project/fold1/fold2 folder. How can we do it, as the command p4 sync takes only file names and not folder.
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In Perforce on Unix, how do you add a directory that is a symbolic link?

I have created a symbolic link directory in Unix and I would like to add it to perforce. (this question relates to symlinks on Unix. Windows symbolic links can have very different behaviour from Unix.) ../blah/dir1 is the source directory, which…
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p4v does not show the complete list of checked out files

If I checkout 4000 files in p4v it does not show me the complete list of files in the default changelist. It just says 4000 files checked out. Is there any way that I can view the complete list of 4000 files?
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Disable P4V Auto Refresh of “Reconcile Offline Work” If Window is Left Open

If I do "Reconcile Offline Work" in P4V, after a while the reconciling will finish and a window will eventually pop up showing the files that were modified, added, or removed. Sometimes I know the reconciling will take a few minutes or more based…
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move shelved files in one workspace to another workspace perforce - file(s) not in client view

I have workspace1 that has some shelved changes. Now I need that shelf to be moved to workspace2. I am trying the following command with no luck. you can see the error I am getting as well. C:\source\workspace1>p4 -c workspace1 unshelve -s…
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Perforce auto resolve from the command line?

P4V has been crapping out on me when attempting to resolve a large number of files as part of an integration. I want to be able to do this in the command line. Here's the steps in P4V: Right-click the CL. Choose "Resolve Files..." A dialog will…
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How to remove files from changelist in perforce without losing modifications?

I accidentally created a new changelist with files from WORKSPACE not from DEPOT and now under the changelist 4500 modified files are displayed (all dlls pdbs etc. alongside with the files i actually edited) I'm using the p4v GUI. Is there anyway to…
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parallel file transfer must be enabled using net.parallel.max

Just downloaded p4v on a new computer and I'm trying to pull my repository and I'm running into this error. Never had a problem with pulling the repository before today. Any idea what the workaround is for this? I tried running the command p4…
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Perforce equivalent of git local commit

I just started using Perforce after using Git for a year. Is there any equivalent of a git local commit to my branch in perforce. Essentially, if I want to work on a complex task which might need undoing and redoing of my specific changes, is there…
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