Perforce | Qt Creator Manual
Description: Additional Perforce functions.

- Qt Creator Manual
- Perforce
- Qt Creator Manual 13.0.1

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# 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.

To specify the details individually for several projects, use configuration files instead. Create a `p4config.txt` configuration file for each project in the top level project directory, and run `p4 set P4CONFIG=p4config.txt` once. You must deselect the Environment Variables check box.

## Editing Files

In addition to the standard version control system functions described in Use common VCS Functions, you can select Tools > Perforce > Edit File to open a file for editing within the client workspace. By default, files are automatically opened for editing. To disable this feature, select Preferences > Version Control > Perforce, and then deselect the Automatically open files when editing check box.

To list files that are open for editing, select Tools > Perforce > Opened.

To group files for commit, select Tools > Perforce > Pending Changes.

To view information about change lists and the files in them, select Tools > Perforce > Describe.

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

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