On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
2008/9/8 Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:59:26PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Has anyone used perforce? Do you also think it makes the OSS VCS look
especially weak?
I am much happier with its merge support than raw subversion, or subversion
(1.4) + svn-merge.py. I've not yet tried subversion 1.5 on this front.
Apart from that, perforce generally annoys me because
a: it defaults to "whole checkout" rather than "this directory downwards",
which can confuse me, and makes it damn hard to have 2+ checkouts on one
machine
b: the architectural arrogance of the "you don't need a command to reliably
reverse a changeset" (and how integration of an add and then an edit works)
c: because it's most definitely not offline
d. one needs to p4-edit files one want to modify, and even if they're
not modified, they're still part of the submitted changeset.
While not an ideal solution, you can easily remove any files you don't
want in the change set when you submit. I use a command line client and
just chop off any files that I haven't modded in the interactive check-in
form. You can also pass an option to change the behaviour to only submit
changed files -
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/cmdref/submit.html
e. p4 won't warn you about new files you might want to add.In the
same vein, there's no support for the like of
.cvsignore/.gitignore/svn:ignore etc.
This is really annoying and we've written tools for people to run before
checking stuff in to make sure that we don't miss stuff.
--billy
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