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### Syncing up for the first time

The SciTech Perforce software repository contains a lot of code, and doing a full sync will pull down well in excess of 60Mb of files! Hence in order to save time for the initial sync, you can download and the latest ‘full depot’ archive to your system, and then tell Perforce that you have all files at the time that release was made. Then when you sync up you will only pull down all the files that have changed since the version of the full depot files you downloaded. You will need to first download one of the following files depending on the platform you are using:

full_depot_r13.zip | Complete copy of GPL depot in DOS/Win format
full_depot_r13.tar.gz | Complete copy of GPL depot in Unix format

Once you have the full depot files downloaded and installed, you can do the initial sync for using the following commands:

p4 flush -f @public_release_13
p4 sync

This will tell Perforce that you have all the files at the label ‘public_release_13’. You can change this label to the appropriate label for the for the public release that you have downloaded. Then the 'p4 sync' command grabs any changes that have occurred since the ‘public_release_13’ label. Once you have synced up the first time, you should only need to use 'p4 sync' to get the latest updates to all the files from that point forward.

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