Perforce: Setting up Ignore lists

Sometimes your local workspace will have files that you don't want to check in. Examples include Maya swatches files, if you are using Unity, the library folder, and anything called tmp.

You can set up P4 to ignore files and folders using the P4IGNORE environment variable, and a text file in your perforce root called .p4ignore.txt

Here is how you set it up:

An example of the contents of an ignore file. Comments are added using the # sign. 

• Create a file in the root directory of your workspace (eg: C:/Projects/Perforce/) called .p4ignore.txt
• Inside this file, define which file types to ignore. For example:
• The .swatches file, which is generated by Maya. 
• The Library folder, generated by Unity. 
• Any other folder that contains source file work that should remain local to people's workstations (texture bakes, render data etc).
• Once this file is set up, open the command console (windows key + r then type in cmd) and type in: p4 set P4IGNORE = .p4ignore.txt

Setting the environment variable in a windows environment. 

• Now, Perforce should ignore the file types and folders defined in the text document. 
• Next time an attempt to add this file is made, a warning should show up, and the files will not be added to your changelist. 

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