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In Perforce, what is a "shelved" file? What is the purpose of "shelving" a file that is open for edit in the workspace?
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I'm currently working in a company using Perforce and am making way for distributed version control with Mercurial. I've had success importing Perforce history using the perfarce (quite a suitable name, I laugh every time I see/say it) however, this only works with a single branch at a time.
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Is anyone aware of of anybody offering hosted perforce servers?
It doesn't have to be free - but preferably not too expensive!
My understanding of Perforce is that it's free to use for personal projects, which mine is. Currently I have a perforce server setup on the same machine as the code is on…
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I would like to know how to speedup the perforce auto resolve when doing integration (merge yours and theirs if no conflicts exists).
Currently is taking hours for ~5000 files when running it using a proxy server even if the proxy server has the files pre-cached.
Also p4v interface doesn't give…
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We are using P4 for free with two users. In the P4V admin gui I can see both myself and my partner as users, and in the P4V gui I can see all workspaces (clients) and all changelists (both mine and my partner's). From the command line, 'p4 users' only shows me, 'p4 clients' only shows my local workspace…
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I have various custom binary files stored in perforce and for many of the file types I have built a custom diff tool to show the content creators a diff of the actual changes to the file.
E.g. If the file holds simple key value pairs as a compressed binary blob the diff tool would load each version…
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I'm pretty new at using TFS and I'd like to know how you or your team use the "shelve" function of tfs.
We have the following guidelines in using TFS:
- perform a "Get Latest" before you check in and try to build/compile
- do not check in code that does not compile
- at the end of the day, if your…
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I'm pretty new at using TFS and I'd like to know how you or your team use the "shelve" function of tfs.
We have the following guidelines in using TFS:
- perform a "Get Latest" before you check in and try to build/compile
- do not check in code that does not compile
- at the end of the day, if your…
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Since we shifted to TFS we’ve had the ability to perform what is known as ‘shelving’. Shelving (whilst not a wholly new topic in the world of SCC) is new to us, and didn’t exist in our previous SCC solution – SVN. Soo… what is it? What? Shelving is a way to check-in but not check-in your code. By…
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In Perforce, what is a "shelved" file? What is the purpose of "shelving" a file that is open for edit in the workspace?
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Here's the part I get: When you shelve in TFS, it makes a server copy of the changes so they are not lost, but does not check them into the source code trunk/branch you are working on.
Question: Under what circumstances would you use the "unshelve" feature? Does it mean it will remove the shelveset…
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