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Re:Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single R... by jayd16 on Saturday January 11, 2020 @12:53PM (#22021222)
Ah sorry. I don't want to speak to what Google has made. I've never used it. Compared to the public version of Perforce, git has a much simpler model. Streams, view specs, branch mappings, p4admin tooling, a myriad of Perforce plugins of varying quality you're expected to use, and an official gui that is embarrassingly bad make Perforce much more complex in my mind. (Although it's doing more things so it's not without reason...)

The one thing p4 does have is file level versioning. It's trivial to go back and pick single versions of files. Artists need that feature and most git clients hide it away or don't support it at all.

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