Perforce | Qt Creator Documentation
Description: Additional Perforce functions.

- Qt Creator Documentation
- Perforce
- Qt Creator 19.0.0

Mercurial ◦ Subversion

# Perforce

Perforce is a fast software configuration management system developed by Perforce Software.

Note: Enable the Perforce plugin to use it.

## Configuring Perforce

To set Perforce preferences, select Preferences > Version Control > Perforce:

In P4 command, set the path to the command-line client executable.

Set workspace details in P4 user, P4 client, and P4 port.

## Using configuration files

To specify workspace details individually for several projects, use configuration files:

1. Create a `p4config.txt` configuration file for each project in the top level project directory.
2. Go to Preferences > Version Control > Perforce.
3. Clear Environment Variables.
4. To set `P4CONFIG` to use the file that you created, run the following command from the command line once:

        p4 set P4CONFIG=p4config.txt

For more information about using the `P4CONFIG` variable, see Perforce: P4CONFIG.

## Additional Perforce functions

In addition to the standard version control system functions described in Use common VCS functions, you can access additional functions in Tools > Perforce.

Menu Item | Description
--- | ---
Edit File | Open a file for editing within the client workspace.
Opened | List files that are open for editing.
Pending Changes | Group files for commit.
Describe | View information about change lists and the files in them.

See also Enable and disable plugins, Set up version control systems, Use common VCS functions, and Version control systems.

Mercurial ◦ Subversion