Using Perforce

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

Since Qt Creator 4.9, the Perforce plugin is disabled by default. To enable it, select Help > About Plugins > Version Control > Perforce. Then select Restart Now to restart Qt Creator and load the plugin.

Configuring Perforce

In the Perforce preferences, you can specify workspace details: 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. Note that Environment Variables must be unchecked.

Editing Files

In addition to the standard version control system functions described in Using Common 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 Edit > 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 changelists and the files in them, select Tools > Perforce > Describe.

By default, you are prompted to confirm that you want to submit changes. To suppress the prompt, select Edit > Preferences > Version Control > Perforce, and then deselect the Prompt on submit check box.