When using p4v to sync a project onto a 2nd machine I was surprised to see that files I had checked out on my primary machine were not included in the "Get Revision" (Get Latest Revision and Force options selected).
This seems like an elemental thing to get working but I can't find how to force this other than perhaps tagging the source tree and getting that, which I don't want to do if I don't have to. . .
This is an elemental thing. Syncing on one computer is in no way influenced by what you have open for edit on another. Syncing retrieves all those files regardless of who has them checked out, unless you have confused the server by messing with files outside the Perforce client. However, you said you used the -f option, which would solve that problem.
Are you sure you don't have those missing files open for add and not for edit?
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Recently our development team received new pc's. In an effort to make this transition smoother, I would like to be able to explain to my co-workers how to continue using the client they already have set up to pull files to and from the new pc while eventually ignoring the old pc workspace altogether.
I know about adjusting the attributes of the client itself and allowing the client to be accessed by different hosts. What I'm looking to do now is update the perforce have list for the given client to reflect the files (or lack thereof) that are on the new pc's file system (in the correctly mapped location, obviously).
I'm not sure if it is possible with the p4 flush command for perforce to know which revision of an existing workspace file i have without explicitly telling perforce which revision it is...? (this seems like its asking a lot)
Apart from files that Do exist in the workspace, is there a command that will update the have list to #0 for files that don't exist in the workspace?
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Is the sledgehammer approach:
submit any pending changes in the old and/or new workspace
remove any files that may have already been forced into the (new) workspace
$:p4 flush [workspace root]/...#0
appropriate in this situation?
If using the existing workspaces is an option, then this should be pretty easy. It sounds like you already know how to make a workspace accessible from a different host (you can leave it blank to make it accessible by any host). If you copy the workspace folder to the new PC, and update the root of the workspace as necessary, it should "just work" without any additional changes.
If I'm understanding your question correctly, I believe that using a workspace name as your revision modifier will do what you want. For example p4 flush //depot/path/some/file#workspacename. For new machines, we often go through these basic steps to avoid having to resync files.
Copy the files in the workspace from machine 1 to machine 2
Create a client that matches the old client's mappings
In the new client, run:
p4 flush //depot/...#oldclientname
Is it possible to delete a file from your workspace and then hitting submit in perforce and that file being deleted from the perforce server?
open for read: F
\LocalSource\Perforce\MainBranch\blah\New Text Document.txt: The system cannot find the file specified.
Submit aborted -- fix problems then use 'p4 submit -c 4799463'.
Some file(s) could not be transferred from client.
I get this message when I try to submit. In Subversion I could do this. I had a look on the internet and it looks like this isn't possible, but I thought I'd check on here.
(The reason I want this is because I have a spreadsheet and I want to extract the modules from the spreadsheet and put them into source control. But sometimes modules in that spreadsheet may be removed and I want to be able to just checkin the modules that are changed and do deletions on the server, without having to go into the perforce client and deleting the files marked for deletion in there.) One method was to delete all the files in perforce and then do a dummy commit of an empty directory. And then add all the files again extracted from the spreadsheet and do an add. But then in my version history I always will have a version with a full delete.
Any simple ideas, special commands that I can use?
Thanks,
Chris
If you delete files directly on disk, without using the Perforce client to delete them (e.g., you use your spreadsheet command to delete those files directly), that's called "offline work", and in order to tell Perforce that you've made those changes, you just need to go back into your P4V window and use "Reconcile Offline Work".
See Working Disconnected From The Perforce Server for complete instructions.
See also this related question: Sync offline changes to a workspace into Perforce
Perforce has a command-line client (http://www.perforce.com/product/components/perforce_commandline_client) you should be able to execute from Excel as any exe file via the Shell function.
I've just set up Perforce on my home computer so that I can work at home without having to lug my work computer around.
I used the same workspace as the one I use at work, but when I try to get the latest revision, I don't get all of the files. Some subfolders are missing despite being mapped like this: //depot/some_folder/... //My_Workspace/some_folder/... some_folder has a subfolder some_subfolder but my workspace didn't pull that folder in for some reason... None of the other lines in "View" have anything to do with some_folder so I don't think they are the issue.
Anyone have any ideas?
The Perforce server tracks what files you pull in your workspace. This is done for speed, so when you do a "Get latest revision" it will only pull the files that need to be updated. Since you are using the same workspace, Perforce thinks you have them in sync already. You have 2 options.
Use p4 sync -f //files/... (If your using p4v, right click->Get revision, then in the options click the Force checkbox) This will tell perforce to sync everything to the latest revision. But then you will have to use this option at work and home, since Perforce will now think you have everything in sync, when really only the files at home are in sync.
Use a different workspace for home and work.
In the GUI, instead of doing the get latest, try doing the context menu for "Get Revision...", and in that window that comes up, check the "Force" checkbox and give that a try.
Create a different workspace to use on your home computer. Do not try to use the same workspace on two different computers unless they're pointing at the same underlying filesystem.
In my case, I have to get the latest into a different folder. I renamed the folder from original workspace, but it did not work if I do a get latest. I created a different workspace, and it worked.
I forgot to check out a source code file before modifying it.
When I get last revision, Perforce overwrote that file, so my work is totally lost.
Is it possible to recover the file?
For future use, update your client workspace so that you specify "noallwrite, noclobber". If noclobber is set, Perforce will not overwrite your writable un-opened files: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/client.html
Only if your editor or your operating system saved a copy or it's been modified long enough that it made its way to your backups. Perforce will not make copies of such files, it blindly assumes that you didn't lie and will always honestly tell it when you want to edit a file.
if you are using eclipse then its possible to retrieve the local version using Compare With -> Local history . It helped me.
This has happened to me recently. For some reason, after I "p4 sync"-ed my workspace, and do p4 resolve, I noticed that my changes to a file were missing. I'm not sure if my changes were not saved or I haven't checked out the file. But I really remembered that my changes were saved. :(
I have been using Visual Studio for development and it doesn't have local history unlike in Eclipse. Luckily, that file is a javascript file and I have been testing my application in Internet Explorer. Since IE does some caching on some internet data like js files, what I did is to check the directory where it saves temporarily files (Internet Options -> Browser history settings ) there you'll see different versions of the files saved. I did recover my files! It was really just luck!
After that incident, I installed a plugin for visual studio for storing local history of files everytime it's being saved. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/226c2108-9da9-407d-b90d-9783040d27b8
Best thing to avoid these cases is to:
branch out your files first into a separate devline during development and submit every milestones you accomplished
incrementally. In this way you'll always have versions of important
changes you do during development. After this you could
integrate it back to the parent branch/mainline.
http://answers.perforce.com/articles/KB_Article/Branching-Codelines-and-Merging-Changes
Hope this helps!
If you fired the following command (which is a FORCE sync option), only then will Perforce update ALL your files.. including ones which are WRITABLE. The only exception is that any file that you have OPENED in perforce will not be overwritten. So if your file was made WRITABLE using OS command, and not using p4 open.. they will get overwritten by p4 sync -f.
p4 sync -f
The other possibility is that you did p4 sync, and still perforce overwrote your writable files (which were not opened using p4) because your workspace settings don't have noallwrite, noclobber specified. Usually by default, these settings are already specified, so that Perforce doesn't clobber writable files.
My home Perforce server died. I set up a new one.
The project I set it up to support died in the planning phase. The contents of the depot at that point were some prototype code and we never got to setting up a disaster recovery plan.
The dev machines still have the existing code on them. As much as possible, I'd like the change of servers to be transparent to the developers--use the same depositories and the same directories, just change the name of the server to connect to and get back to work.
What do I need to do in order to make this happen?
I assume you don't have access to the perforce depot files from your dead server? I assume you know that you will lose all your history.
If that's the case all you need to do is setup the new server, create a user / client with the same root clientspec path as your original clientspec was using on your dev machine and checkin all the files into perforce. Pretty simple really...
You may need to rebind is SCM binding that you may have in tools like Visual Studio but that's about it.
What Shane suggested will populate the depot with one person's version of the files. But if you have another user who also has a copy then you'll need a couple of extra steps.
Firstly, just set one machine up as suggested by Shane.
You now need to get the second user set up. If you are confident that the version of the code user 2 has exactly matches what you put in the new server, then just create a client spec (probably same name as used before), and then sync using the "Force" flag. This will overwrite all the files on user 2's machine, and - more importantly - ensure Perforce knows which versions you really have.
However, if you are in any doubt as to any differences in code, then do not do the initial sync from the second user's machine. Instead, set up the client spec, then use the "Reconcile offline work" option - from P4V select the workspace, then it's a right click option. Then just walk through the subsequent dialog to sort out what you need.
Finally, if you want a very quick & dirty backup system for your server, I've posted some notes on my blog here - should take you just a couple of minutes to set up.