Parts of P4

P4 client applications allow you to check files out of the depot, resolve conflicts, and make your local changes available to other users by submitting your changelist The changes to files or stream specifications along with metadata, such as the list of changed files, their version numbers, the submitter of the changelist, and the submitter's description of the changes. A changelist is the unit of versioned work. to the depot. To get the latest version of files, you sync from a shared repository called the depot A file repository hosted on the P4 Server. A depot is the top-level unit of storage for versioned files, which are also known as depot files, archive files, or source files. It contains all versions of all files ever submitted to the depot. Except for obliterated files, any version of any file can be restored, including deleted files, but not obliterated files. An installation can have multiple depots, and they might be of different types, such as a local depot and a stream depot., which contains every revision of every archive file Versioned files that users submitted to a depot. under version management. You edit files on your computer in your client workspace Directories on your machine where you work on file revisions that are managed by P4 Server..

Integrations are available, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, Jenkins, MATLAB\Simulink, and ElasticSearch (P4Search for P4 DAM and P4 Code Review).

APIs enable developers to create custom client applications.

The P4 Server database tracks the status of users, groups, files, and streams An enhanced type of branch with a dedicated view for clients of the stream (see 'stream view') and built-in rules that determine how changes flow across the stream depot (see 'stream hierarchy'). A stream specification defines a stream. In P4V, stream specs are visible in the Streams Graph and the Streams tab..