Perforce P4CONFIG not being set?

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Zeckler picture Zeckler · Aug 19, 2013 · Viewed 30.4k times · Source

Firstly i'm a total beginer with Perforce, and i'm learning through its documentations mostly.

So, we are about to migrate from CVS to Perforce, and i recently learned a good way to avoid changing the P4CLIENT for each workspace, which is creating a P4CONFIG file inside the workspace root.

So i have used the command: 

p4 set P4CONFIG=p4config

(and my current directory is my workspace root, and the p4config.txt is located there)

in my p4config file i have the following:

P4PORT=host:port
P4USER=user
P4CLIENT=myWorkspace

i have already created 'myWorkspace' with the command 'p4 client' mapping to myworkspace root and its alright.

However when i try the command 

p4 info

it shows my 'client name:' as my hostname, showing that the variable haven't been set.

and when i try 'p4 set P4CONFIG' it prints:

P4CONFIG=p4config.txt (set) (config 'noconfig')

I've tried with my p4config.txt full path, and still gets the same...

Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?

By the way, it's running on Windows.

Answer

Bryan Pendleton picture Bryan Pendleton · Aug 19, 2013

If the file is 'p4config.txt', then you should do

p4 set P4CONFIG=p4config.txt

not

p4 set P4CONFIG=p4config

You'll know it's working when 'p4 set' prints "(config 'p4config.txt')".

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