As of version 2012.1, Perforce supports the P4IGNORE environment variable. This allows you to specify files and directories to ignore when using the commands that search for or add new files (p4 add, p4 status, and p4 reconcile). To use an ignore file, create a file in the root of your workspace and give it … Read more
p4 describe -S 1234 should to the trick, see the documentation on describe. To see the file content you would unshelve the files into your workspace (assuming you have a workspace for the same project your colleague is working on). Create a new (empty) changelist with p4 change (results in e.g. 2345), then use p4 … Read more
When the submitted changelist pane has focus, a CTRL+F lets you do an arbitrary text search, which includes changelist descriptions. The only limitation is that it searches just those changelists that have been fetched from the server, so you may need to up the number retrieved. This is done via the “Number of changelists, jobs, … Read more
Search > Go To… In the dialog, you can go to a submitted changelist by number. In my version of P4, this is under Edit > Go To…
I recommend the opposite for automatic build systems: you should first get the latest changelist from the server using: p4 changes -s submitted -m1 then sync to that change and record it in the revision info. The reason is as follows. Although Perforce recommends the following to determine the changelist to which the workspace is … Read more
From the “View” menu, select “Workspaces”. You’ll see all of the workspaces you’ve created. Select the workspaces you want to delete and click “Edit” -> “Delete Workspace”, or right-click and select “Delete Workspace”. If the workspace is “locked” to prevent changes, you’ll get an error message. To unlock the workspace, click “Edit” (or right-click and … Read more
Both of these operations restore a set of files to a previous state and are essentially faster, safer ways of undoing mistakes than using the p4 obliterate command (and you don’t need admin access to use them). In the case of “Rollback…”, this could be any number of files, even an entire depot. You can … Read more