Drexel Perforce - Knowledge Hub
Welcome to the Westphal Perforce Knowledge Hub, a comprehensive resource designed for students and faculty learning about Perforce and Perforce Streams.
🎫 Important: Discord Ticket System
Here is a link to our Discord Perforce Ticket System when a help ticket is needed.
🖇 Important: Westphal Universal .p4ignore
Here is a link to a download for a "Universal" .p4Ignore file that can be used as a starting point for most game and virtual production projects.
Work in Progress
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🚀 Getting Started
- Introduction to Perforce
- What is Perforce?
- Why use Perforce for game development and virtual production?
- Installation Guide
- Download and install P4V
- Set up your workspace
- First Steps in Perforce
- Connect to the Drexel Perforce server
- Create your first project
- Basic commands and operations
🌊 Understanding Perforce Streams
- Perforce Streams Basics
- What are Streams?
- Stream types and their uses
- Working with Streams
- Creating and managing streams
- Best practices for stream workflows
- Branching, Merging, and Copying with Streams
- When and how to branch
- Merging strategies
- Copying vs. merging
💽 Advanced Topics
🎮 Game Development Specifics
📚 Best Practices and Tips
- Deleting Files
- Perforce Best Practices
- Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
- Collaborative Workflows
🛠️ Tools and Administration
- Command-Line Tools
- Administrative Tasks
- Bulk Add Operations
- P4 Admin - Bulk Add
- Bulk File Operations
- Troubleshooting and Logging