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P4 Visual Client (P4V) Documentation | 2025.4

# Copy preferences

You can configure default behaviors for the Copy dialog box.

- Specify the default copy method that appears when the dialog box opens:

  - Specify source and target files: The dialog box prompts you to select source and target files
  - Branch mapping: The dialog box prompts you to select a branch mapping

  - Remember my last choice: The dialog box opens with the copy method you used the last time you opened the dialog

    You can set different default copy methods depending on whether you open the Copy dialog box from a non-stream file or folder or a submitted changelist.

    Note

    You cannot set the copy method that appears by default when you open the Copy dialog box from a stream object or branch mapping, since the copy method for a stream object is always Stream-to-stream and the copy method for a branch mapping is always Branch mapping.

- Specify how to treat the files that you use to filter a branch mapping:

  - Source: The files that you include are treated as the source
  - Target: The files that you include are treated as the target
  - Remember my last choice: The dialog box treats the files the way it did the last time you opened the dialog

- Specify which Options tab appears on top when the Copy dialog box opens:

  - Submit
  - Filter
  - Advanced
  - Remember my last choice

- Specify the default Submit options:

  - Add files to pending changelist or Automatically submit copied files
  - Pending changelist: Default or new
  - Add previously linked job(s) to the new changelist

- Specify the default Advanced option:

  - Do not copy newly branched target files to workspace (-v): Create a branch in the depot without retrieving the corresponding files from the depot to your workspace.

Click Restore Defaultsto change the settings back to P4V’s defaults.

For more information about these options, see Merging Files Between Codelines.

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