What is Perforce?

Perforce is a centralized verson control system (i.e. there is only one central location of the project - depot).

Why Perforce?

Perforce handles massive projects efficiently.

Instead of creating a hash for the entire project (i.e. what git does) Perforce only does this for the files you’d like changed. This makes it a favourite for industries that have projects that have large file sizes (e.g. gaming, film, engineering, etc).

How to Perforce

• Checkout only the files you want to change
• Get latest revision - to get the latest code
  • NB: Checked-out files are not updated

Terms

• Depot:
  • A repository that of files that live on a Perforce server
• Perforce Server:
  • Can have multople depots
• Workspace:
  • Defines the portion of the depot that can be accessed
  • Specifies where local copies in the depot are stored (Workspace view)