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Put some documentation in about the parameters that have been added
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Signed-off-by: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Anand Kumria authored and Junio C Hamano committed Aug 12, 2008
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Configuration parameters
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git-p4.user ($P4USER)

Allows you to specify the username to use to connect to the Perforce repository.

git config [--global] git-p4.user public

git-p4.password ($P4PASS)

Allows you to specify the password to use to connect to the Perforce repository.
Warning this password will be visible on the command-line invocation of the p4 binary.

git config [--global] git-p4.password public1234

git-p4.port ($P4PORT)

Specify the port to be used to contact the Perforce server. As this will be passed
directly to the p4 binary, it may be in the format host:port as well.

git config [--global] git-p4.port codes.zimbra.com:2666

git-p4.host ($P4HOST)

Specify the host to contact for a Perforce repository.

git config [--global] git-p4.host perforce.example.com

git-p4.client ($P4CLIENT)

Specify the client name to use

git config [--global] git-p4.client public-view

git-p4.syncFromOrigin

A useful setup may be that you have a periodically updated git repository
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