Choose a remote
How you choose a remote depends on whether you’re doing your initial clone or your daily fetching and pushing.
If you’re cloning, run the p4 remotes
command on the
shared server from which you’re cloning and choose the remote you want to
work with. To look at the details of each remote, run p4 remote
-o
. Alternatively, you can obtain the id of the remote
from a shared server administrator or project leader.
If you want the content of just one depot path, pass the filespec of the
path by running p4 clone -f
.
In a typical use case, you’ve cloned from a shared server and the remote
has been copied to your personal server and named origin
.
Because origin
is the default remote, you don’t have to pass
a remote id during subsequent fetches and pushes.
In the more complicated case, you’re pushing to or fetching from
multiple shared servers, in which case you would run p4
remotes
on your personal server and choose from among the
remotes based on which shared server you’re fetching from or pushing to.
Again, you can use p4 remote -o
to get the details of
each remote.