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- Perforce
- Qt Creator 21.0.0-beta1

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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.

## 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 version control 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 version control functions, and Version control systems.

Mercurial ◦ Subversion