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P4 CLI Documentation | 2026.1

# Add files outside of P4 Server and use p4 reconcile -k

In certain situations, you might need to copy a very large number of files into your workspace from another user’s workspace. Rather than doing this via P4 Server, you may, for performance reasons, choose to copy them directly — via a snapshot, for example — from the other user’s workspace into yours.

Once you’ve done this, you will need to:

- Inform P4 Server that these files now exist on your client.

  That is, you want to update your client’s have list to reflect the actual contents of your workspace. To learn more, see `p4 have`.

- Ensure that your workspace view contains mappings identical to those contained in the workspace view of the client you copied from

  This ensures that P4 Server doesn’t think these files are new.

To do this, run the `p4 reconcile -k` command.

You can also ignore groups of files when adding. See Ignoring groups of files when adding for details.

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