The FreeBSD project uses the Perforce version control system to manage experimental projects that are not ready for the main Subversion repository.
While Perforce is a commercial
product, the client software for interacting with the server is
freely available from Perforce. It can be easily installed on
FreeBSD via the devel/p4
port or can be downloaded from the Perforce
web site at http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html,
which also offers client applications for other OS's.
While there is a GUI client available, most people use the
command line application called p4. This
document is written from the point of view of using this
command.
Detailed documentation is available online at http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technical.html.
Reading the “Perforce User's Guide” and
“Perforce Command Reference” is highly recommended.
The p4 application also contains an
extensive amount of online help accessible via the p4
help command.
The FreeBSD Perforce server is
hosted on perforce.freebsd.org,
port 1666. The repository is browsable
online at http://p4web.freebsd.org.
Some portions of the repository are also automatically exported
to a number of legacy CVSup servers.
All FreeBSD documents are available for download at http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
Questions that are not answered by the
documentation may be
sent to <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>.
Send questions about this document to <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>.