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In IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 we’ve improved setting up your Perforce server connection and connection state diagnostics.

Configuring connections

If you are using P4CONFIG files for configuration, IntelliJ IDEA shows what config files it has found and what other default settings are used. This way you can be sure that your P4CONFIG files are found and taken into account.

Use the ‘Test Connection’ button in ‘Settings | Version Control | VCSs | Perforce’ to see this information.

Moreover, in case you specified a wrong client workspace and your project roots do not match with the workspace roots, you are also clearly prompted:

If you are not authenticated to the server or the authentication ticket has expired, you will be notified accordingly:

Offline mode

Once Perforce server becomes unavailable, IntelliJ IDEA switches to the offline mode automatically and displays an offline notification.

In the offline mode, you can continue working locally as usual, file checkouts are remembered by IntelliJ IDEA to be further re-played. When going online IntelliJ IDEA requires that you authenticate on the server and the ticket is not expired. This is important to re-play you offline edits properly.

There’s been a number of new things we’ve added in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 related to version control support. You can try them already in a latest EAP build. And here’s a quick overview.

Do not forget things… TODO!

Now you can easily ensure you haven’t forgotten to implement a method, and double-check the important places in your code before commit. Just mark those places in code with TODO.

IntelliJ IDEA’s new “Check TODO” before commit inspection will notify about all new and edited TODO items.

It will also confirm about TODO items in the changed fragments (in case they are not actual any more).

You can use TODO filter with this inspection — if you want to pay attention only to TODO items of a special kind.

You can further review TODO items in the changed lines:

Import patches into IntelliJ IDEA shelf

You can now import a patch into shelf.

It is quite useful when you review someone’s code and use patches for communication.

Later, you can unshelve it using the new detailed Unshelve… action, which opens a dialog similar to ‘Apply Patch’ and allows setting any bases for the patch parts (in case some files or directories had moved since then).

You can also import patches directly from the Apply Patch dialog.

Subversion. GNOME Keyring support

GNOME Keyring support has been implemented by svnkit, so you can use it in IntelliJ IDEA now.

As svnkit folks say, it is in experimental phase, and a special JVM key should be used to enable it. So, please read the details.

This is it for now. Let us know what you think.

And make sure you are using the latest IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 EAP build when you get to try these and other new features.

In the upcoming Maia EAP you will find a slightly different Commit Changes dialog.

• Automatic use of JobView filter on search results.
• Support for Perforce native search query syntax (in an example below we’re looking for Job in any field)