This page contains descriptions of the fields and options available when setting up VCS roots using Perforce:
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If you plan to use agent-side VCS Checkout Mode, note that Perforce client must be installed on the agents, and path to p4 executable must be added to the PATH environment variable.
P4 Connection Settings
Option
Description
Port
Specify the Perforce server address. The format is host:port.
Client
Click this radio button to directly specify the client workspace. The workspace should already be created by Perforce client applications like P4V or P4Win. Only mapping rules are used from the configured client workspace. The client name is ignored.
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When this option is used, internal TeamCity source caching on the server side is disabled, which may worsen the performance of clean checkouts. For maximum performance, we recommend using Client Mapping option (see below)
Client Mapping
Click this radio button to specify the mapping of the depot to the client computer. If you have Client mapping selected, TeamCity handles file separators according to OS/platform of a build agent where a build is run. To enforce specific line separator for all build agents, use Client having LineEnd option specified in Perforce instead of Client mapping. Alternatively you can add an Configuring Agent Requirements to run builds only on specific platform.
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Use team-city-agent instead of the client name in the mapping.
Specify the path to the Perforce command-line client: p4.exe file). This path will be used both for server-side checkout and for agent-side checkout. If you need different values for this path on different build agents when using agent-side checkout, you can set the value using TEAMCITY_P4_PATH environment variable in buildAgent.properties file
Ticket-based authentication
Check this option to enable ticket-based authentication.
Charset
Select the character set used on the client computer.
Support UTF-16 encoding
Enable this option if you have UTF-16 files in your project.
To customize the workspace name when using client side checkout add following configuration parameter at the Build Parameters page: teamcity.perforce.workspace.prefix