12 messages in com.perforce.perforce-userPerforce vs. Clearcase
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Magu...@Mass-USR.COM23 Sep 1997 05:07 
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WesP...@xmission.com24 Sep 1997 22:54 
Subject:Perforce vs. Clearcase
From:WesP...@xmission.com (WesP@xmission.com)
Date:09/24/1997 10:54:37 PM
List:com.perforce.perforce-user

Rajesh Vaidheeswarran writes:

The things that I found about P4:

3. Not very forgiving. Cannot revert a submitted change. (Perforce would say that every Engineer should be resposible for making sure of the validity of the change.... but however, we are human, and make some stupid mistakes some times.... )

But you can, of course, edit the file, get the old revision, and submit it with "Oops, revert to revision #42 because I goofed this up."

4. Windows support is supposedly very good. (Though I rarely use it on Windows... this is based on what my colleagues have had to say).

Very good. Nice Win UI, except that it doesn't remember the previous window settings when it starts up, so I spend 2 or 3 minute shoving it around every time I login to NT.

6. Access Control was horrible, but I hear that it is not so in 97.2. I have yet to see that.

I'm just starting to get into this now. Since I'm the one who recommended Perforce to our development team, I'm the administrator. We want to setup access control so developers have read/write/delete but not obliterate, and Test/QA has read-only plus label. I'll see how well it works in the next week or so.

In general, it is very good, and does what I expect it to do. Also, the Perforce folks I have interacted with have been very friendly. So, I am happy.

Ditto. I'll also agree with a previous correspondent that it works well over slow links; I can see my depot from home, dialed up through my ISP. That'll go away soon, we're getting firewalled, but also RAS'ed, so I'll just have to dialup work also. Not so bad, since I make dial-up IP routers for a living. I'll just have to start beta-testing our multiple dial-up target profiles. ;^)

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