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. |
If you haven't heard about Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management System, head over to our home page and read all about it.
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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Conversion scripts, browsers, daemons, and other supporting programs. |
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Examples of pre-submit triggers, which is a feature added in release 99.1 |
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Perforce WebKeeper module for the Apache HTTP server |
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Jam/MR |
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How to Browse the Public Depot |
If you're simply curious about our Public Depot, please browse freely. Here's how:
· Start here to browse the Public Depot using P4DB, a suite of CGI scripts contributed by Fredric Fredricson.
http://public.perforce.com
as the root. For example, to look at this file: //public/jam/src/jam.c
You'd use this URL:
http://public.perforce.com/public/jam/src/jam.c
public.perforce.com:1666
(p4 and P4Win are Perforce client programs which can be downloaded for free. p4 is a command-line program available for all platforms, and P4Win is a Windows GUI available for Windows 95 and Windows NT.)
Note: We periodically purge client specs created by
unregistered users. You are free to recreate clients with p4 or P4win,
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.
How to Contribute to the Public Depot |
Registering |
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Client Setup |
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Submitting Files |
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Notes on Access Permissions |
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More Information |
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