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Perforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system.

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Needing to free up space in the / directory in a perforce server. Cant rotate logs due to access set by p4 protect

new to linux/ubunutu environments and currently helping do some admin work on a perforce server, needing to free up space on the / directory, read that rotating logs is the best way to do so. Upon ...
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Helix swarm not loading

Working on a Debian 11 instance. I'm trying to configure a perforce server by installing helix swarm on it. I followed the configuration, created the accounts and everything, tested the connection ...
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Setting up Perforce with AWS - "Rollback Complete" on stack?

Alright, I am following this tutorial to set up Perforce HelixCore with AWS. I've followed all of part 1 "Define your AWS environment" verbatim, however my parent stack's status went from ...
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Perforce client AND server no longer connecting, 127.0.0.1:1666 refusing all connections on server, even local connections

I have a server running Ubuntu server 18.04, and it's the catch-all local server - hosts a samba share, media server, and a Perforce server. I connect to that depot via a local network IP (ssl:192.x....
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Running a command in Powershell and running the exe gives different results

This is really odd. I have a so called Perforce Helix server on my Windows 2016 server. Now on this server there is an exe called p4d now if i go to the Powershell and run p4d it runs the command ...
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how to get removed perforce binary files in /opt/perforce directory

When I run p4d and p4 I am getting [p4: command not found] I have no binary files p4d, p4 in /opt/perforce/ directory. So unable to run perforce server and client. I have tried with uninstalling ...
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p4: No such file or directory - when in reality it exists

I have installed p4 command line client on the server, and something strange is happening. It exists, has executable rights, but I cannot execute it because I received an error message that it does ...
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Jenkins, Perforce and Multibranch, how to set up automatic branch detecting?

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 ...
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Should I migrate perforce server from VMWare to cloud (AWS)? [closed]

Our company have been using perforce hosted on WMWare. It works fine for Local (US) developers but the team oversea is complaining about its performance. Migration to the cloud may resolve the problem....
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Traceroute to my IP address is slow while ping is fast [closed]

When I have a connection to my network and I ping the IP address my machine is assigned, I get a fast response. However, when I do a traceroute to my IP address, the command takes around a minute to ...
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Visual build pro - Perforce integration and variable assignation

We use Visual build pro and we would like to get some variable from a perforce command. We have a step which is a perforce one, with the global options set up (Client and Port) and we would like to ...
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Migrating a Github repository with all the commit history to Perforce [closed]

The title is self explanatory, how can i migrate a github repository with commit history to Perforce. Thanks.
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Revision control of sensitive configuration files

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 ...
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Maximum packet length reached?

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 ...
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Compliance in DVCS administration at an enterprise context, what to expect from a transition from a CVCS (Perforce)?

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). ...
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How do I unsubmit a previously committed Perforce change list?

I just submitted a Perforce (p4) changelist that I need to make a small modification to in order to correct a build. How do I unsubmit a recently submitted p4 changelist?
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How to set env variables and run multiple commands with PsExec?

How can I run multiple commands with PsExec, and how can I export environment variables? I can run two commands by doing the below, but when I try to export an environment variable the second command ...
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Perforce: File tampered with after resolve - edit or revert

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 -...
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How to log in as a user in p4

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, ...
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Perforce License Problem

We are moving our Perforce server to a Linux virtual machine. I can get the new Perforce server to start up without a license. When I copy our existing license file to the new server, all I get is: ...
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p4 - I've got no such file or directory - when in reality it exists

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 ...
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Perforce Restore From Multiple Checkpoint Files?

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 ...
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Perforce Proxy Server: Caching selective files

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 ...
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Not able to connect to perforce server outside of localhost

My setup is a Qwest PK5000 router with a Linksys router running Tomato. I have DMZ pointed towards my router. (The server is on the tomato router). I tried my applications that open up sockets and ...
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Can Perforce backup files?

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, ...
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