[Dev] Source Code Revision Control Infrastructure

[nitin at borwankar.com]

Nimret Sandhu wrote:

>blech .. pls tell me that is not the default behaviour and i most certainly dont hope that it locks files ( ala vss). u have no hope to scale the # of devs on the project if u have lock/edit instead of a merge based system imo. i cant remmember how we had that setup ( i dont remmember locking files - but it was a few years ago).
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It allows you to check out (no locks) edit, then resolve conflicts - it 
has a reasonably good diff/merge tool for 3 way merges, or you can plug 
in your own.

Why don't you visit the site and take a look.  Also download their 
server and use it.

Perforce has been scaling to 100's-1000's of clients over SSH for many 
years and has been used by Fortune 500 companies and also smaller 
companies like Weblogic (now BEA Weblogic), to manage all their Java 
sources.

Also the founders came from Ingres, which was an early relational 
database company,back in the 80's, and their founder worked on the 
client-server protocols, IIRC.
So this is not some fly by night operation.  They are doing some 
innovative things in SCM, like interfile branching etc.
Believe me, CVS is not what you compare it to, technically,  probably 
Bitkeeper.

>does perforce handle security? cvs can be tunnelled over ssh. ssh also supports on the fly compression.
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anything that operates client server over TCP/IP  and uses a known port 
can be tunneled over SSH right ?  But yes it does this rather well.
In 1998 I used it while doing a contracting job with 80% telecommuting ( 
those were the days :-) ).


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The more idiot-proof you make it, the smarter the idiots get.

Nitin Borwankar
nitin at borwankar.com



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