[p4] perforce vs. subversion

[Noah Salzman]

On May 3, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Sam Roberts wrote:

> As well, a number of our developers have written ad-hoc scripts to try
> and find new files while accounting for build artifacts that should be
> ignored.


Yes, perforce is annoying if you are used to a cvs- or subversion- 
style workflow. Yes, arguably, these annoyances have an upside in  
that everything is tracked on the server. Yes, you can have a  
subversion-style workflow and still live in the perforce world if you  
wrap perforce commands with other scripts.

I think that it would be nice if Perforce, Inc. actually provided a  
default set of wrapper scripts rather than having everyone make their  
own or download Joe Blow's scripts but they are sort of stubborn that  
way (or, perhaps, their big customers all use p4v and don't care  
about such things).

In any case, our hard core cvs users here (the ones who whined about  
"p4 edit" the most) just aliased p4 to a wrapper script and now they  
don't complain anymore.

   --Noah--