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Re:Slow Software by coder543 on Thursday November 22, 2018 @12:54AM (#18508157)

I sometimes forget how much big companies enjoy spending money. I once worked for a large company where every developer was issued a full copy of Microsoft Office, even though most of them worked inside a fullscreen Linux VM all day. Outlook was the only piece of Office that my coworkers and I used, and I would have been happier using a tab open to a webmail provider inside the VM than having to use Outlook to connect to Exchange. That was far from the only unnecessary software they paid for. Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce!

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Re:Slow Software by golergka on Thursday November 22, 2018 @05:11AM (#18509073)

If you're working in the game industry, and your repository includes a lot of huge binary files that are mergable, perfoce is a godsend.

Also, p4merge is the best merging utility for any VCS, and I always install it alongside git if I work in Windows.

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Re:Slow Software by mariusmg on Thursday November 22, 2018 @10:01AM (#18510328)

>p4merge is the best merging utility for any VCS

What makes it "the best" ? Honest question, i found it kludgy and settled for Kdiff3.

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Re:Slow Software by shandor on Thursday November 22, 2018 @10:43AM (#18510602)

p4merge is indeed awesome. I work exclusively in Linux environments, but p4merge always gets installed. The experience has actually gotten better in that regard since git started supporting it straight as one of its 'mergetools'.

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Re:Slow Software by viraptor on Thursday November 22, 2018 @02:07AM (#18508394)

> every developer was issued a full copy of Microsoft Office

Enterprise volume licenses. It probably cost them less than the time/money they'd lose if you spenta few minutes trying to figure out how to open some file sent by non-devs.

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Re:Slow Software by pjmlp on Thursday November 22, 2018 @02:11AM (#18508403)

> Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce!

Nice graphical tooling and sane developer experience.

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Re:Slow Software by Murk on Thursday November 22, 2018 @03:48AM (#18508740)

I consider perforce "views" to be burdonsome and not so sane. The rest of the experience may be less jarring than git for many.

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Re:Slow Software by dagw on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:35AM (#18509609)

Why use Git when you can pay for Perforce!

Perforce integrates very nicely with a whole bunch of third party tools in a way git does not, and is on the whole a lot easier to use for most people than git (and I'm saying this as someone who doesn't like Perforce at all)

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Re:Slow Software by maccard on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:51AM (#18509677)

Really? My experience is the opposite - all the tools integrate with git, not perforce.

Said as someone who likes perforce. Having hundreds of developers working with large binary files was incompatible with git until very recently.

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Re:Slow Software by hobs on Thursday November 22, 2018 @01:45PM (#18511734)

I would have to echo this, no problem with perforce, but sayings its ecosystem of plugins is more viable than git?

Maybe 5+ years ago?

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