About Perforce and the Public Depot |
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One of Perforce's many distinguishing features is that it can be used over the internet to track shared software development. A Perforce server stores files in a depot, and developers all over the world can submit changes to the depot. The orderly management of file changes and merges is provided by the Perforce SCM system. |
We've set up this Public Depot to enable software developers outside of our company to contribute to the growing body of supporting programs and documentation of interest to our users. Among the first open source development projects we've initiated into the Public Depot are WebKeeper, an Apache Web Server module for accessing files in a Perforce depot, and Jam/MR, a fully portable alternative to make(1).
If you're interested in contributing to any of the software or documentation in the Public Depot, read on to find out how. Or, if you're simply interested in seeing how Perforce works, you'll find the Public Depot to be an accessible model of real, distributed, concurrent source management in action.
The Depot Roadmap |
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How to Browse the Public Depot |
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If you're simply curious about our Public Depot, please browse freely using one of the following products we have set up on this site:
public.perforce.com
is an
Apache Server with the
Perforce Webkeeper module and the Perforce C++ API linked in.
When you point your browser to public.perforce.com
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you're browsing files in a Perforce depot.
For example, the file you're reading now is stored in the Public Depot as
"//public/index.html".
WebKeeper source files are available in the Perforce Public Depot in the //public/perforce/webkeeper path. For more information about the Perforce C++ API, see the Perforce Supporting Programs page.
public.perforce.com:8080
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Like P4DB, P4Web lets you navigate a depot hierarchy, observe activity, and browse file content. (The links on this page to Public Depot paths are handled by P4Web.) Start here to try it out.
And, like WebKeeper, P4Web sends documents to your web browser directly from a Perforce depot. For example, the page you're reading now is also available through P4Web at:
http://public.perforce.com:8080/public/index.html
Unlike WebKeeper, however, P4Web's Back-in-Time Browsing ® lets you "go back in time" to browse documents stored in a Perforce depot. For example to see what this page looked like at 1:00 pm back in October 2, 1998, say, you could point your browser to:
http://public.perforce.com:8080/public/index.html@1998/10/02:13:00
P4Web is currently available from the Perforce Downloads page.
P4FTP can also be used by registered Public Depot users for read-write access; in this mode, it allows Perforce to be used conveniently from software with ftp client support, (like Dreamweaver, Netscape, and Internet Explorer) to browse, download, or upload Perforce depot files.
More information about P4PTF, including download instructions, can be found here.
You can run any of the available Perforce client programs (P4, P4Win, P4Web, etc.) on your own machine to access the Public Depot. Just set your Perforce port (P4PORT) to:
public.perforce.com:1666Note that we periodically purge client specs created by unregistered users. You are free to create new clients but unless you're a registered user, don't count on having a persistent client spec in the depot. See below for instructions on becoming a registered user.
Perforce client programs are available from the Perforce Downloads page.
How to Contribute to the Public Depot |
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Registering |
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Subscribing to Change Notifications Via Email |
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There is a Perforce change review daemon for the Public Depot. You can configure your Perforce User Specification so that you will be notified about changes submitted by others to the Public Depot, either for the entire depot, or any subset of files kept here.
The basic procedure is to edit your Perforce User Specification, adding a "Reviews:" field, with entries to select the paths within the depot of files you are interested in. When a change affecting such files is submitted, you will be notified via email. You must also have the Email: field in your User Specification correctly set to the address where you want notifications to be sent. (You can edit your User Specification using the p4 user command from the command line client).
For example, to "subscribe" so that you will be notified about all changes affecting anything under //public , or any changes that affect any files in directories named "cvs2p4" (anywhere in the depot), you would set your User Specification to include:
Email: your email address Reviews: //public/... //.../cvs2p4/*
The Public Depot review daemon will also allow the person submitting a change to include additional addressees for a particular change notification, by including a one or more lines of the form
in the Description field of either the Change Specification for a given change, or of the Client Specification of the client from which the change is being submitted.Description: cc: address [ address ... ]
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