Perforce Helix Core
Perforce | 1.0.0Linux/Unix, Other openlogic/rockylinux-9-hardened - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Perforce makes version control easier and more secure. Everything is in one place.
What do you like best about the product?
Perforce is fast and I know exactly which repository to start looking at... there is only one and we have it replicated to multiple sites providing rapid access to users all over the world with lower bandwidth requirements.
Perforce support is amazing. They really take the time to help with workflows, understanding how to build a more efficient pipeline and many other things.
The Auditing capabilities allows us to see how people are using the product and helps us find trends.
Perforce support is amazing. They really take the time to help with workflows, understanding how to build a more efficient pipeline and many other things.
The Auditing capabilities allows us to see how people are using the product and helps us find trends.
What do you dislike about the product?
Perforce upgrades could be more automatic, but I like the security of knowing what versions are running. We
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Perforce we are able to keep everything where it can be found easily. With Git we have to sew back together our codebase it is so easy in perforce to branch and to merge branches, sewing together git repositories is a huge challenge.
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What do you like best about the product?
It runs and does everything that it is supposed to. Team is great you get quick support.
What do you dislike about the product?
German support would be great because of different time zones.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
VR Experiences creating with Unreal, Maya and Max
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Buy!
Overall positive once the helix quirks has been learned
What do you like best about the product?
There are three things that I especially like
- the revision graph view is excellent, and very nice to get an overview.
- p4merge visual layout
- The fact that there is no shadow folder, like in subversion or git
- the revision graph view is excellent, and very nice to get an overview.
- p4merge visual layout
- The fact that there is no shadow folder, like in subversion or git
What do you dislike about the product?
The way workspace view is setup. It is very often the biggest obstacle when introducing new users.
Also, it is very annoying that there is no easy way to download something from perforce, e.g. with a oneliner. If I have the p4 commandline installed,, and credentials, I think you should be able to download something, just to current directly, e.g. like git clone and them rm .git
Also, it is very annoying that there is no easy way to download something from perforce, e.g. with a oneliner. If I have the p4 commandline installed,, and credentials, I think you should be able to download something, just to current directly, e.g. like git clone and them rm .git
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The primary reason for our department for using Helix VCS compared to e.g. git is the innate support for big files.
Integration functionality is fundamentally flawed
What do you like best about the product?
Generally, I like that Helix operates well at large scales; I have to support almost 1000 users, and the performance problems are much smaller than they could be.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have major issues with the integration functionality, two specific problems in particular. For one thing, the fact that Helix is smart enough to recognize when files have been moved, but by default chooses not to use that power in integration, seems fatally flawed. Second, it is bizarre to me that the only way to undo an integration is to delete metadata; Helix provides both "rollback" and "backout" capabilities, but none of those touch the integration history, which inevitably leads to the situation where a developer wants to back out changes and then re-integrate from trunk, but is forced to perform an elaborate hopscotch routine of integrations, backouts, and re-backouts to do so. This is absurd
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At the moment, Helix supports 90% of our version control needs.
Mission Critical Tool for Company that does Software Development
What do you like best about the product?
1. You can use Helix VCS as is for keeping version control of software. You can also use the Helix VCS server by installing a middle-ware, which gives you the capability of git command line to access the repository.
2. We also used the "Forwarding Replica Servers" for distributed sites. If you use ClearCase Multi-sites, you will realize that the designed from Helix VCS is maintenance free. You only need to setup it up once and you're done. As for ClearCase Multi-sites, you are required to learn how to use the ClearCase Mastership.
3. The final thing I want to mention is the support from Helix VCS support team is second to none. Making a great product and the support team is paramount in a "Mission Critical Application" in the software industry.
2. We also used the "Forwarding Replica Servers" for distributed sites. If you use ClearCase Multi-sites, you will realize that the designed from Helix VCS is maintenance free. You only need to setup it up once and you're done. As for ClearCase Multi-sites, you are required to learn how to use the ClearCase Mastership.
3. The final thing I want to mention is the support from Helix VCS support team is second to none. Making a great product and the support team is paramount in a "Mission Critical Application" in the software industry.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a learning a learning curve on how to manage git server using Helix CVS.
Once you learn how it operates, it works as advertised.
Once you learn how it operates, it works as advertised.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can use Helix CVS to keep our version control of the software.
If we want to use Git, it is possible without changing the backend.
Ease of Multiple sites development setup
Lower maintenance cost.
Easy to maintain.
If we want to use Git, it is possible without changing the backend.
Ease of Multiple sites development setup
Lower maintenance cost.
Easy to maintain.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes.
Nice integration
What do you like best about the product?
HCS has nice options for integrating in all (3) of our IDE's, and exposes all of the day to day functionality that a developer needs
What do you dislike about the product?
The P4Admin UI is not as mature as the P4 Client and can be clumbsy to use
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have development centers in 5 countries, on 3 continents and have been able to integrate all
Game Development with Helix (Perforce) Source Control
What do you like best about the product?
The Helix ecosystem of products (server and clients) is mature and stable and because of its paradigm of not tracking local file edits it is fast. The GUI clients make it easy for a wide variety of users (in our case, engineers, artists, game designers and sound designers) to understand source control.
The APIs and triggers on submits allow sophisticated tools to be built to streamline the development process.
The 24/7 response team always quickly answers queries.
The Helix Swarm tool is great for code reviews.
The free 20 user option allows you to try it out though it does take some effort to set the server up well.
The APIs and triggers on submits allow sophisticated tools to be built to streamline the development process.
The 24/7 response team always quickly answers queries.
The Helix Swarm tool is great for code reviews.
The free 20 user option allows you to try it out though it does take some effort to set the server up well.
What do you dislike about the product?
My main issue with Helix as that the clients are not updated very often and a number of issues with the user interface have remained unaddressed for years. Also the MacOS client is much less stable than the Windows client.
In our particular use case where we use Unity the integration between Perforce and Unity is still in need of further work though it is useable.
In our particular use case where we use Unity the integration between Perforce and Unity is still in need of further work though it is useable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are building graphically rich video games which requires a team of many disciplines with differing levels of technical expertise and for the vast majority of users Helix's user interface does make it easy to work with source control.
Game development also involves the creation and management of a lot of digital assets and Helix's storage scheme does store them efficiently and deliver new changes to a distributed team quickly.
Game development is increasingly about building and maintaining a great live service with frequent updates to the game and Helix helps support this by allowing updates to be developed in different streams with different release dates.
Game development also involves the creation and management of a lot of digital assets and Helix's storage scheme does store them efficiently and deliver new changes to a distributed team quickly.
Game development is increasingly about building and maintaining a great live service with frequent updates to the game and Helix helps support this by allowing updates to be developed in different streams with different release dates.
Decent alternative to other VCS systems
What do you like best about the product?
Once setup, the UI was great to work with.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setting/porting up via Git was more complicated than it needed to be.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I wanted to checkout swarm for code review and collaboration.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be patient with the setup process.
Intermediate Software QA
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, ease to admin. The capability of Helix to handle such a huge code base of the company with so much of features to offer.
What do you dislike about the product?
Swarm allows a lot of automation with shelved changes (as opposed to committed changes), to more easily identify change origins from integrations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Software QA
Functional, robust.
What do you like best about the product?
Consistent across all business units and developers. It keeps improving in ease of use and performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is expensive, and not particularly easy to work with. It does not tie in well to our BOM system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Coordinating VCS between 50 software developers, and sharing updates to libraries. The learning curve is small for simple things like checkin and checkout, but branch and merge have to be done carefully.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Now comes with Git compatibility, so one interface is needed. It will handle multiple nested projects well, and is used for all of our documentation needs. It does need a "champion" or administrator willing to put in the time to learn.
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