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user1972031

Reputation: 557

Perforce - Changes not saved in workspace-client view

When I executed "p4 client" to make some changes in my workspace view on MacOS High Sierra for perforce, the changes were not saved and command "p4 client" at the prompt did not close (exit) when I closed the workspace-view file.

Can someone please tell me what I am missing/doing wrong? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1954

Answers (3)

Max Well
Max Well

Reputation: 337

For me, the p4 client command was opening the tmp file in Sublime Text. When trying to save edits to the client workspace specification, ST would show the "Save As" window in the %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp directory. Saving the file there wasn't making the changes to the client spec.

To solve this, I edited the p4config.cfg file in my workspace root. Since P4EDITOR wasn't specified, I added the following line.

P4EDITOR="C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe"

After doing this, p4 client opens the client spec in notepad, and saving the file and closing it commits the changes to the spec as expected.

Upvotes: 0

Fred Visser
Fred Visser

Reputation: 11

In my configuration, p4 client <workspace_name> opened TextMate (a GUI app), and simply saving and closing the document left the terminal waiting for changes.

The trick was to save and quit TextMate, and the client was saved correctly.

Upvotes: 1

user1972031
user1972031

Reputation: 557

I resolved my issue by deleting the existing workspace view and created a new workspace view. In the new workspace view, I simply mapped the depot to /my_workspace_view/. Before, I mapped the depot to /my_workspace_view///...

Upvotes: 1

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