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P4 Server Administration Documentation | 2026.1

# Initialize an empty server

Use this approach if you want to work in isolation on a personal server, developing and possibly branching code.

In this workflow, you invoke the `p4 init` command in your working directory to initialize a personal server and set it up with everything needed to start versioning files.

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