Software Build and Release Specialist

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Jun 28

Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset error

If you have gotten “Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset” error message when you’ve switched to the ticket based authentication, here’s what you can do to fix the problem: p4 login -p -a Simple. Straight forward.

Jan 20

Importing a new Project in Perforce

I ran into another not-so-clear Perforce error message today while trying to import a new project to an existing depot.  I had a new project1 which I wanted to import into the existing // depot, but when I tried to add via P4V or ‘p4 add’ in the command line, I kept getting this message: [...]

Apr 3

//projectfoo/bar/… – must refer to client ‘p4_client’.

Ever run into this error with Perforce’s ‘p4 changes’ or any other similar command? //projectfoo/bar/… – must refer to client ‘some_p4_client’.? I ran into this exact problem today.  I was trying to do a ‘p4 changes //projectfoo/bar/…@xxxxxx,yyyyyy’ to get a history of the changelist and got that error. The symptoms were that doing the same [...]