belkiss / niftyplugins

Simple Perforce integration for Visual Studio 2017 to 2022

Introduction

This repository holds a forked version of Nifty Plugins, originally written by Jim Tilander (and found at https://github.com/jtilander/niftyplugins)

Note that NiftySolution was removed from this repository.

NiftyPerforce, belkiss' fork

The biggest changes from the original NiftyPerforce are:

• support for recent Visual Studio versions, from vs2017 to vs2022
• proper registration of NiftyPerforce in the UI, so it can be removed without leaving anything behind
• CI using GithubActions

Download

• From Visual Studio Marketplace

  • vs2017/vs2019
  • vs2022

• From Github

  • vs2017/vs2019
  • vs2022

Configuration

It is recommended not setting any connection info in nifty but have UseSystemEnv set to true (which is the default).

Ensure you have a P4CONFIG environment variable by typing p4 set in a terminal:

> p4 set
P4CONFIG=p4config.txt (set) (config 'noconfig')
...

If you do not have P4CONFIG, set it to a name (usually p4config.txt, see p4 documentation):

> p4 set P4CONFIG=p4config.txt

Then create a p4config.txt file at the root of each and every workspace you work in, like this:

P4PORT=ssl:ida:3548
P4USER=joe
P4CLIENT=joes_client

Since nifty invokes p4 (or p4vc) directly, all the operations will work in the proper server/workspace :)