Perforce Glossary Different SCM systems sometimes use different terminology to refer to familiar SCM commands and functions. The following table lists common Perforce commands/features and maps them to terminology/features used by some other SCM...
Comparison of perforce with other SCM system Comparison between Perforce and ClearCasehttp://maillist.perforce.com/perforce/comparisons/perforce_clearCase.pdf Comparison between Perforce and...
Perforce is a commercial, proprietary revision control system developed by Perforce Software, Inc.Perforce is a Software Configuration Management (SCM) system based on a client/serverArchitecture. Users of Perforce client programs connect to a...
Perforce client programsClients to the Perforce system fall into roughly four categories: command, GUI, web, and plugin.You use Perforce client programs to communicate with the Perforce server. Perforce client programs enable you to check files in...
Features Complete file and metadata history Full revision history for branched, renamed, moved, copied, and deleted files Three-way text file merging; merge tracking and re-merge prevention; common ancestor detection Graphical diffing, merging,...
Concurrency model The Perforce system offers a hybrid of merge and lock concurrency models.[4] As with similar systems, users do not have to lock files in order to work on them and are required to resolve concurrent, committed changes before...
P4Win is a Windows-Explorer-style program that helps you manage files that are stored in the Perforce software configuration management system. Using P4Win, you can view files, check them in and out, compare them, and handle conflicts that arise in...
Perforce Basic connects to a Perforce server to move files between Perforce depots and yourworkspace, as shown below. The precise definitions for these Perforce terms are as follows:• depot: a file repository on the Perforce server. It contains...