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Re:What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis (2016) by jaaron on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:35PM (#26964339)
Yep. There are reasons Perforce is so prevalent in game development, even if we gripe about it:

- Large binary asset support.

- Exclusive locks for binary assets.

- Speed. When configured properly, it's very fast, particularly for large repositories.

- Tooling support. It's nearly ubiquitous in gaming.

I'm working on repositories that are 100+ GB and need to support both programmers and artists. Git just isn't the right tool.

We do use git for backend server-side projects. Having to support two different version control systems is a pain, but, again, it's useful to have the right tool for the job.

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Re:What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis (2016) by jayd16 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:23PM (#26965183)
Git LFS is really robust these days. Personally I think its faster then Perforce now. Reconciles can hang and there's just so much more that can be done in git without hitting the network.

GitLFS supports locking too.

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Re:What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis (2016) by traviscj on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:43PM (#26964886)
I really love the pragmatism behind saying: yes, X sucks, but it’s still useful.
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Re:What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis (2016) by m463 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:49AM (#26965715)
I like that a changelist is one atomic unit in time across everything. Don't underestimate the number of footshoots this avoids. and you can build your tooling on top of it.
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Re:What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis (2016) by satya71 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:34PM (#26964813)
Perforce has a product called Helix4Git, which apparently allows you to use Git with Perforce. Is it something you tried?
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Re:What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis (2016) by jayd16 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:26PM (#26965199)
Its still pretty fragile but it does work. I wouldn't recommend it for daily usage though. Too many things in p4 show up as impossible breaking changes to the git repo.
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