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Perforce

Posted Oct 21, 2009 5:19 UTC (Wed) by bradfitz (subscriber, #4378)
In reply to: Perforce by SLi
Parent article: KS2009: How Google uses Linux

An increasing number of us use a clever coworker's git-atop-perforce bridge,
so we feel like we're working in a git world, but certain operations sync to
Perforce and use the many perforce presubmit/postsubmit checks/scripts/etc,
enforcing normal code review processes and such.

So with stuff like that, or git-svn, if you're going to have a blessed
"central" repo anyway, who really cares if that repo is actually git, svn,
perforce, etc, as long as you can use your DVCS of choice at the edge?

The alternative is changing years of accumulated tools & checks every time a
new VCS comes out and you change your master repo's storage format.

*shrug*

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Perforce

Posted Oct 21, 2009 22:02 UTC (Wed) by ianw (subscriber, #20143) [Link]

Same inside VMware, another big user of Perforce. We've got an increasing number of developers using git-p4 wrappers, and even now tools using it - the git based pre-submission build testing stuff evens twitters at @vmwarepbs if you submit something that breaks the build :)

Although everyone always talks about getting rid of it, there is so much build, QA and release infrastructure built around it, I can't fathom it could ever happen. But, using git wrappers, us developers can pretty much forget that it's even there :)