24 messages in com.perforce.perforce-userComments on Perforce
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Daigle22 Sep 1997 14:30 
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Subject:Comments on Perforce
From:rk...@crow.bmc.comrk (rk@crow.bmc.comrk)
Date:09/22/1997 02:55:17 PM
List:com.perforce.perforce-user

We use Perforce in a NT/Solaris/HPUX/SunOS environment. Being able to share source trees between Unix and NT has been a major benefit for us.

The fact that NT swallows (and at times even modifies) case information in file names has been a major problem (even with P4CASE set).

The following features would be quite useful -

a) Perforce Administrator Role:

P4 allows users certain privileges that seem inappropriate - such as allowing a user to submit changes created by another user. For security, and so a user may not overextend herself, P4 should provide for a 'P4 Administrator' - a P4 user with more privileges than other users.

b) Perforce Depot Sanity Check Utility:

Recently a power surge damaged some of my perforce depot files. I had to restore from Unix backup and recreate the depot ( I didn't have P4 journalling on).

It would be useful to have a P4-fsck (similar to Unix fsck) to verify the depot sanity and even repair the depot, should that be possible.

Other than these, we've found perforce solving a lot of problems for us. Plus their tech support is, I think, excellent.

From sdaigle at securitydynamics.com Mon Sep 22 14:35:43 1997 >To: "'perforce-user at perforce.com'" <perforce-user at perforce.com> >Subject: Comments on Perforce >X-Priority: 3 >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >We currently use Clearcase at our company. There was a running thread in >Atrias newsgroup concerning Perforce so I started looking at the >product. I just signed up on this discussion group the other day and >want to get a feel for what users think of the product. We are getting >the point where clearcase performance is starting to be a problem in our >mixed NT and UNIX environments. The unix side works for the most part >and performance is "tolerable" however the NT side has many problems. > >I'd appreciate any comments you have on Perforce. I'd like to know how >mixed NT/unix environments work with the product. Is the performance >there. Are there things that don't work well, or at all. Also, how does >Perforce handle removing of directories and relocation/removal of files? >Do users end up with multiple copies of relocated files? > >All information is welcome. Please reply to my mail address directly, >unless you think your reply may help out others in this group. > >Thanks, >Sheldon Daigle >Security Dynamics, Inc.

---- S Ramakrishnan, BMC Software Inc., San Jose, Ca