Welcome to the Perforce Knowledge Base

The Perforce Knowledge Base (KB) is the repository of Perforce's technical articles. If you have suggestions for articles, or have comments and questions, please let us know.

You can learn more about the mechanics and architecture of the Knowledge Base, and how it works with Perforce.

Featured Articles

What's New in the Knowledge Base
This version of the Perforce Knowledge Base (2007.2) has a number of new features, including RSS feeds, user feedback, article ratings, and more. This article describes the new features.

January 9, 2008

The Sample Depot
The Perforce Sample Depot is a working example of a Perforce Server you can use for testing or training. It illustrates typical depot organization and sensible naming conventions. The Sample Depot contains enough files and file revision history to let you to perform interesting and meaningful SCM tasks.

April 27, 2007

Track2SQL: A Performance Tracking Tool
Track2sql is an effective tool for identifying Perforce performance problems. It takes a VTRACK log file as input, and produces an SQL file as output. This tool is not maintained by Perforce Software.

April 12, 2007

Perforce File Types
How does Perforce automatically detect whether a new file is binary or text? How do you manually override Perforce's determination? This article explains Perforce file types and how to work with them.

December, 2007