Perforce Revision Control System Lab

This lab helps you get started with Perforce.

1. Set up your client. Set your .bash_profile and /home/user/depot/.p4 file according to the lecture notes. Here is the .p4 file again.

   P4CLIENT=user.nfs
   P4USER=user
   P4PASSWD=
   P4PORT=phantom:1666
   

   Since you haven't set up a password yet, either don't add that line or leave it empty. Set P4CONFIG=.p4 in your .bash_profile.
2. Verify that you can connect to the server. You should see (with parrt replaced with your user):

   [parrt@nexus depot]$ p4 info
   User name: parrt
   Client name: parrt.nfs
   Client host: nexus.cs.usfca.edu
   Client root: /home/parrt/depot
   Current directory: /home/parrt/depot
   Client address: 138.202.170.4:58303
   Server address: phantom.cs.usfca.edu:1666
   Server root: /var/local/perforce
   Server date: 2003/10/21 13:21:54 -0700 PDT
   Server version: P4D/LINUX24X86/2003.1/46260 (2003/07/03)
   Server license: Univ. of San Francisco 35 users (expires 2004/08/11) 
   

3. Check out your client:

   $ p4 client -o user.nfs
   

   It will look something like this:

   Client: parrt.nfs
   
   Update: 2004/01/29 11:31:07
   
   Access: 2004/01/29 11:31:07
   
   Owner:  parrt
   
   Description:
           Created by parrt.
   
   Root:   /home/parrt/depot
   
   Options:        noallwrite noclobber nocompress unlocked nomodtime normdir
   
   LineEnd:        local
   
   View:
           //depot/cs342/parrt/... //parrt.nfs/...
   

4. Make sure you set your password via p4 user. In the editor, add the following line:

   Password: your-password
   

   And then make sure your .p4 file has the correct password.
5. Your /home/user/depot directory reflects the state of the depot location //depot/cs342/user/depot. Create a subdirectory of depot called test. Then, create files A.java:

   /** A is a test file */
   public class A {
   	int i;
   }
   

   and B.java

   public class B {
     public void foo() {
     }
   }
   

6. Add the files to the depot with

   $ p4 add *.java
   

7. Commit the files to the depot with

   $ p4 submit
   

   The editor will come up; type in a description and then exit.
8. Try to edit A.java. You will see that the file is readonly. Inform perforce that you want to edit the file with:

   $ p4 edit A.java
   

   and now change the comment to include your name.
9. Ask perforce to tell you what you have changed with

   $ p4 diff A.java
   

10. Submit to the depot with

    $ p4 submit
    

    Again, type in a description such as "added my name" and exit the editor.
11. Do a p4 changes to see what changes have been made.