This page contains descriptions of the fields and options available when setting up VCS roots using Perforce:

If you plan to use agent-side 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.

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 agent requirement to run builds only on specific platform.

Use team-city-agent instead of the client name in the mapping.

Example:

//depot/MPS/... //team-city-agent/...
//depot/MPS/lib/tools/... //team-city-agent/tools/...

User

Specify the user login name.

Password

Specify the password.

Path to P4 executable

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.

Workspace options for checkout on agent

If needed, you can set here the following options for p4 client command: Options, SubmitOptions, and LineEnd.

To customize the workspace name when using client side checkout add following configuration parameter at the Build Parameters page:
teamcity.perforce.workspace.prefix



See also:

Administrator's Guide: VCS Checkout Mode