Getting help with p4 help

In addition to the material in this manual, you can get help for Helix Core Server commands by using the p4 help command, which provides information about individual commands or for areas like jobs, revisions, or file types.

The output to the p4 help command as well as the syntax diagrams included in this manual show the short form of the command options. You can also specify command options using long-form syntax. For example, instead of the following command format:

$ p4 reopen -c 1602 -t text+F //depot/my/file

You can now use this format:

$ p4 reopen --change 1602 --filetype text+F //depot/my/file

Note that long-form option names are preceded by two hyphens rather than the usual single hyphen.

Options that are rarely used have only a short form.

To display long-form option syntax for a particular command, use the --explain option. For example:

$ p4 reopen --explain

This will generate output like the following:

--omit-moved (-1): disables following renames resulting from 'p4 move'
--filetype (-t): specifies the filetype to be used.
--change (-c): specifies the changelist to use for the command.
Usage: reopen [-c changelist#] [-t type] files...

To display information about a single option for a command, specify the option name with --explain. For example:

$ p4 revert --explain -k