Re: [p4] P4HOST issues

Posted on behalf of forum user 'Matt Janulewicz'.

+infinity for what Sam says about the Host: value in your workspace. You almost
never want to change that or blank it out, but one other instance that you might
want to do that is if you're on a VPN that doesn't handle hostnames
right (all of them) and you find your localhost value changes every time you
connect. You do not want to use the same workspace from different PC's/Macs,
and you don't want to connect to a different server from the same workspace,
either.

If I'm reading the OP correctly, this might be a situation where you want to
connect to two different servers (perhaps one local and one remote) from the
same PC/Mac, but don't want to manually change the P4HOST (or P4PORT or ...)
each time. If that's not the case, I'm going to explain how to do it
anyway because it's immensely useful for admins.  :)

Use P4CONFIG. Set that variable to a filename (most people chose something like
.p4config, I like to see it front and center so I set mine to P4CONFIG.)

Then in the root of each of your workspaces, create that file with your custom
settings. Wherever you're set on the commandline, p4 will kind of look
upward through it's path until it encounters a P4CONFIG file and will use
those setting. Typically mine only have P4PORT, P4CLIENT and P4USER set.

I'd say that any time you're connecting to different servers from the
same PC/Mac, both P4PORT and P4CLIENT will have to be unique, or you'll be
in a world of hurt, as Sam outlined.

We have five edge servers and a commit, and I routinely switch between them (and
their corresponding workspaces) simply by changing into a different directory.

Hope that helps. If not you, someone else that comes across this thread!



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