Perforce Helix Swarm
Perforce | 1.0.0Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux openlogic/rockylinux-9-hardened - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Really amazing server tool
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and support documentation
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a little glitchy when dealing with large amounts of files
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a large server for worldwide use and this is perfect
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The Best Version Control software available
What do you like best about the product?
I love the interface! It's extremely simple to find what you are looking for and use it to complete tasks and the ability to easily track assets makes it one of the best products available for version control on the market.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a fan of how licenses are limited based on purchasing (given 6 for a standard license - others MUST be purchased in groups of 5 and not individually).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The benefits are being able to use the software thru its UI and not having to write lines of code to submit continually, check out, or modify assets. It makes working on projects with users who are not familiar with the software easier based on the ease of the UI.
Perforce Helix has transformed our development team
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to have multiple versions of source stored at one time has helped us accurately keep track of our releases. Functionality which allows more than one developer to have the code checked out and still update all versions properly has eliminated the issues we had with bugs or incompatible code getting released to the field.
What do you dislike about the product?
We found that because of the resources required, it was most efficient to have the developers run their own development environment locally instead of on the network. We had to work out how to do periodic backups of their PCs to ensure that we didn't lose any code before check-ins were done. Once we got this worked out, we were able to ensure that all of their work was retained.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We code in COBOL, and our biggest challenge was having incompatible code released to the field... and not being able to have more than one developer working on a single program. Both of these issues have been resolved with Perforce Helix.
Must have for game development
What do you like best about the product?
Perforce is excellent for handling large binary files. It has a lot of features that help our daily game development work such as reconciling offline work, diffing changes, creating steam depots, locking files unless pushed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Helix Administration could have APIs exposed to be controlled by other languages like python and javascript
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Handing large binary files
Clunky and User-Unfriendly
What do you like best about the product?
Stream Graphs and auto-resolving. Visual representation of the files currently checked out and need resolved.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pretty much everything else. Merging something from a task stream to a main stream takes 5-6 steps too many. Working with workspaces and streams is a confusing mess.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
File repo for a GUI
Great package for revision control
What do you like best about the product?
The option to see all changes in different gui and command line options
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a centralized system, server is always needed
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Manage and control all our files
Ease of use
What do you like best about the product?
Helix core/ Perforce/ P4V is a GUI based VCS which itself is very unique and easy to use once have a good understanding of it.
It is very easy to install, configure and use.
A very user friendly interface with realtime comparison of the scripts you have in your local workspace and on cloud/ depot.
Gives a detailed dashboard where you can see all the changes that have been submitted recently and a version comparison lets you know if your script is the latest or you need to pull a latest version.
It is very easy to install, configure and use.
A very user friendly interface with realtime comparison of the scripts you have in your local workspace and on cloud/ depot.
Gives a detailed dashboard where you can see all the changes that have been submitted recently and a version comparison lets you know if your script is the latest or you need to pull a latest version.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initially understanding this software is a bit confusing, especially for people who has worked on GIT or BitBucket.
It doesn't have a bash window where you can send commands to upload your scripts, instead you go through the directory, create a pending checklist, put your files there and then submit.
Not used in most of indian IT companies so experience doesn't count, most organization always prefer GIT or BitBucket over helix.
Branching concept is almost negated, you get your scripts reviewed and push directly to the Depot.
No integration with pycharm or other IDEs available in market so you either have a cloud copy i.e. read only or a local copy of script in your hand.
It doesn't have a bash window where you can send commands to upload your scripts, instead you go through the directory, create a pending checklist, put your files there and then submit.
Not used in most of indian IT companies so experience doesn't count, most organization always prefer GIT or BitBucket over helix.
Branching concept is almost negated, you get your scripts reviewed and push directly to the Depot.
No integration with pycharm or other IDEs available in market so you either have a cloud copy i.e. read only or a local copy of script in your hand.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helix core makes it very easy to submit scripts to cloud (VCS), one can easily review their script version and pull a latest revision.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take tutorials before using it, as this VCS is a bit confusing initially.
Don't ever try to delete anything untill you know how deletion on Helix work.
Don't ever try to delete anything untill you know how deletion on Helix work.
Pretty good version control software
What do you like best about the product?
It integrates fairly well with MadCap Flare, allowing us to keep a version history of documents that we create so we can roll back if necessary. It is easy to use once you know the layout, and the check-in/check-out system is great for version control.
I also like that the desktop client lets you see your full file directory and open files from there in different programs.
I also like that the desktop client lets you see your full file directory and open files from there in different programs.
What do you dislike about the product?
By default, you are allowed to check out and make changes to a file that someone else has checked out. If you don't know this and don't have exclusive checkout enabled, it's possible to lose changes that you make
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We primarly use Perforce for version control and history. We need to make sure that multiple people have access to the same files, but all changes are tracked and saved and no one loses their changes because two people were editing a file at the same time
scalable enterprise solution for version control
What do you like best about the product?
User friendly graphical tools like the Revision Graph and file history graphs.
Securely manageable single repository as well as large repositories that delivers files quickly to distributed teams.
Efficient and effect support.
I think using the graphical interface to perforce (p4v) is a more effective way to work with perforce for most users. It makes it much easier to manage multiple workspaces, change lists, branch mappings, merging and most other functions.
Time lapse tool is just fantastic
I can not live without side-by-side diff tool at a mouse click
Command line tools are powerful but needs little more experience, that comes with time.
Applying the scripts is making daily work easy.
Securely manageable single repository as well as large repositories that delivers files quickly to distributed teams.
Efficient and effect support.
I think using the graphical interface to perforce (p4v) is a more effective way to work with perforce for most users. It makes it much easier to manage multiple workspaces, change lists, branch mappings, merging and most other functions.
Time lapse tool is just fantastic
I can not live without side-by-side diff tool at a mouse click
Command line tools are powerful but needs little more experience, that comes with time.
Applying the scripts is making daily work easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
nitial learning is slightly rough when you come from GIT background, as you pick it up, it becomes fun. I watched online videos from basic to advanced level and now I am comfortable using it. Everyday there is something I learn from my coworkers.
Setting up Helix server is rigorous at the first go, but if you it once, then next time it is straight forward.
Setting up Helix server is rigorous at the first go, but if you it once, then next time it is straight forward.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
fast source code access in agile environments where each branch exists for short time period as we prefer to branch out, implement the functionality and then merge it back to main. We prefer short lived branches and frequent mergers than long waited mergers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
User-friendly
scalable
easily manageable
Good for large distributed teams
Merging and branching a piece of cake
File history easy to access
scalable
easily manageable
Good for large distributed teams
Merging and branching a piece of cake
File history easy to access
Powerful versioning engine with excellent graphical interface
What do you like best about the product?
There are excellent graphical tools like the Revision Graph and the Merge Tool included.
The possibility to automate and access by scripts using command line and various API's is very useful.
There is very good support and knowledge base available.
The Swarm add-on to Perfore is exellent for collaboration and reviews but it actually should be even more tightly integrated as part of the basic product rater than an add-on.
Perforce is very good at handling large files and large repos efficiently.
The possibility to automate and access by scripts using command line and various API's is very useful.
There is very good support and knowledge base available.
The Swarm add-on to Perfore is exellent for collaboration and reviews but it actually should be even more tightly integrated as part of the basic product rater than an add-on.
Perforce is very good at handling large files and large repos efficiently.
What do you dislike about the product?
The concept of a workspace and checking out files is non-intuitive and confusing to new users who are used to Git.
The convienient way of doing Rollback/Backout is good but it is very problematic when it comes to integration records (merges).
Server administration and setup gets a bit complicated when you need more advanced features like replication, broker, SSL-support.
The convienient way of doing Rollback/Backout is good but it is very problematic when it comes to integration records (merges).
Server administration and setup gets a bit complicated when you need more advanced features like replication, broker, SSL-support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Versioning of various types of development artifacts - all types of data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You need to take the time to understand the concepts and the features as traditional Perforce differs from Git.
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