Putting a project under Perforce control

Important

Keep the Eclipse workspace and the Perforce client workspaces separate, and do not place the Eclipse metadata files under Perforce control.

To put a project under Perforce control:

  1. In the Java perspective's Package or Navigator pane, right-click the project and choose Team>Share Project… The Share Project dialog is displayed.
  2. From the Repository Type list, choose Perforce and click Next. The Enter Perforce Server Connection Information dialog is displayed.
  3. Choose Server connection for the Perforce server where you want the project to reside, and set the correct Target Perforce workspace location.
  4. Check Move to Target for the projects which will be moved from Current Location to Target Perforce Workspace Location. Uncheck those projects which will stay at Current Location.
  5. Click Finish.
  6. For projects that already exist in the depot, you are done.
  7. For projects that do not exist in the depot, in the Package or Navigator view, right-click the project folder, choose Team>Mark for Add.... In the Package Explorer view, the files to be added are (by default) decorated with red plus signs. In the Perforce perspective, the files are listed in the P4 Pending Changelists view.
  8. To move files to a different changelistA list of files, their version numbers, the changes made to the files, and a description of the changes made. A changelist is the basic unit of versioned work in Helix Server. The changes specified in the changelist are not stored in the depot until the changelist is submitted to the depot. See also atomic change transaction and changelist number., click New changelist icon image. On the Change Specification form, check the files that you want the changelist to include and click OK.
  9. To submitTo send a pending changelist into the Helix Server depot for processing. the changelist, right-click it in the P4 Pending Changelists pane and choose Submit... The Perforce Change Specification dialog is displayed.
  10. Enter a description and click OK. The project files are added to the depot according to the settings you specified.

If you subsequently add files to the project, you must also add them to Perforce as described above or using the line item created under the Infos heading in the Problems View.

To add a file to the depot:

  1. Right-click the problem line item.
  2. Choose Quick Fix…
  3. Choose the Mark for Add fix. (To exclude the file from Perforce control and remove the task, choose Add to .p4ignore.)
Note

P4Eclipse does not support deleting, moving, renaming, or refactoring linked resources (files and folders that are stored in locations in the file system outside of the project's location).

Excluding files from source control

To conserve space in the repository and to keep changelists small, you can exclude individual files or file types (for example, build or release artifacts) from source control. Eclipse excludes a standard set of such files if you use the default Eclipse build output folder setup and global file type ignore features. If you need to go beyond the default—for example if you use a different builder or build output setup, or you intersperse temporary or other non-essential files with Perforce-managed files in your workspace—you can customize file exclusions using the approaches described in this section.

Note

The different exclusion approaches operate independently. For example, if you exclude a file type using a .p4ignore file, you cannot override the exclusion by modifying the list of ignored resources in Preferences.

You can also exclude files from being submitted to the depot by modifying your Perforce client view to exclude the files. See Using tight client views in the Helix Core Server Administrator Guide: Fundamentals for details.

In general:

Important

You cannot exclude files after you have placed them under Perforce control. If you have files opened in a changelist and you want to exclude them from Perforce control, revert them from the changelist before excluding them.

Following are details:

To display text label decorations for ignored files in the Navigator, choose Window > Preferences. On the Preferences dialog, go to Team > Perforce > LabelDecorations , select Text Decorations tab and check Decorate ignored resources.