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In my opinion, Perforce Helix Core is the most confusing and inefficient code management repo software that I have ever used. I often get …
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What is Perforce Helix Core?
Multinational company Perforce, headquartered in Alameda, California offers a version control and peer code review solution. Perforce version control is built around Helix Core with add-on products for code review (Helix Swarm) for free, and add Git support products (Helix4Git…
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Multinational company Perforce, headquartered in Alameda, California offers a version control and peer code review solution. Perforce version control is built around Helix Core with add-on products for code review (Helix Swarm) for free, and add Git support products (Helix4Git and Helix TeamHub).…
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What is Perforce Helix Core?
Perforce Helix Core is a version control system for teams who need to accelerate innovation at scale. It is used to store and track changes to digital assets, from source code to binary to IPs, and connects teams.
Perforce Helix Core Integrations
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- Jira Software
- Jenkins
- Assembla
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Slack
- Adobe PhotoShop
- Komodo IDE
- Amazon Open 3D Engine (Lumberyard)
- Apache Maven
- Bamboo
- Autodesk 3ds Max
- Autodesk Maya
- CRYENGINE
- DBmaestro Database DevOps Platform
- Backtrace, from Sauce Labs
- Eclipse
- ftrack
- GitHub
- Google Cloud Platform
- Gradle Build Tool (Open Source)
- Hansoft
- Helix ALM
- IBM Aspera on Cloud
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application | No |
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Multinational company Perforce, headquartered in Alameda, California offers a version control and peer code review solution. Perforce version control is built around Helix Core with add-on products for code review (Helix Swarm) for free, and add Git support products (Helix4Git and Helix TeamHub). The original Perforce SCM solution was expanded via the Surround SCM, a software configuration management application which was developed by Seapine Software and now owned by Perforce since that company's acquisition of Seapine in October 2016. Perforce integrated the software with its Helix ALM product. Surround SCM integrates with Perforce's Helix ALM to help manage code, along with requirements, tests, and issues.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of Perforce Helix Core are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Users have adopted various revision control packages like Perforce, Git, and SVN to develop and store data independently. Perforce serves as the backbone of version control for builds, ensuring everyone has the latest content and code. It is easy to get started with Perforce, allowing users to pull the files they want. However, it can be challenging to perform more complex tasks like branching and integrating. Nevertheless, Perforce supports a rich GUI for most tasks and a command-line interface for automated or advanced tasks, making it suitable for users with varying technical proficiency.
Perforce is accessible globally and externally to product licensees, supporting all major features like branching, shelving, and p4web. The visual client of Perforce is user-friendly, presenting the directory structure conveniently and consistently across platforms. Its merge optimization feature is highly useful for day-to-day operations, providing efficient code merging capabilities. This makes Perforce ideal for agile development, big data services, and marketing materials across thousands of automotive dealerships.
Moreover, Perforce is scalable and suitable for small to enterprise-level projects. It integrates well within a .Net environment and is leveraged by several departments to track changes in software, documentation, and assets, providing quick access to change history and approvals. In industries like healthcare, Perforce Helix Core serves as the source control management system of choice for corporate products, internal applications, custom code, and configurations. Beyond version control purposes, Perforce is also used for collaboration and sharing software between independent developer groups within and across different lab sites. In addition to its version control capabilities, Perforce ensures the integrity of code bases by providing backup and revision control features.
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November 09, 2020
Perforce Helix -- Easy, Fast, and Rock-Solid
At my organization, we have several departments using our implementation of Perforce Helix. Perforce has made it easily possible to track changes to our software, documentation, and assets for over two decades. Whenever there is a question as to why a change happened, who approved it, what exactly was changed, it only takes a second or two to find out. Due to combining different organizations, we also use other version control software for some projects, but Perforce Helix is the best, by far.
- Perforce is fast.
- It is easy to use.
- It is easy to administer.
- There is nothing that can beat it when it comes to flexibility.
- Support is top-notch.
- Perforce (the company) needs to market itself better.
- While their Support is the best there is, account management could be better.
- They could be better about notifying users of new features.
- Perforce Helix is fast, both to retrieve and submit files.
- It is easy to administer, and requires very little time.
- Perforce helps us produce better software, faster.
- It allows us to meet compliance requirements with ease.
New users of Perforce Helix can be up and running in less than thirty minutes. It is easy to use, but also very powerful. Bitbucket is slow, prone to outages, and (for large teams) requires a team of dedicated administrators. I've had request for information from Bitbucket that requires hours to pull together that would take me less than 30 seconds in Perforce Helix. Large file storage in Bitbucket is clunky and requires you to jump through too many hoops. It's not even something you have to think about with Perforce Helix, as you are only limited by your OS.
Perforce Helix is very easy to use even for non-developers. I wouldn't dare ask a non-developer to store their documentation in Bitbucket.
Perforce Helix is very easy to use even for non-developers. I wouldn't dare ask a non-developer to store their documentation in Bitbucket.
August 22, 2014
Perforce - A full-featured ecosystem
Being a large company that spans many continents, and having merged with other companies in the past, we have many different groups who've decided on how they develop and store data all on their own. Because of these seemingly independent choices, we've adopted the use of various revision control packages, including Perforce, as well as the popular host of other options, such as Git and SVN. Each package brings advantages as well as hindrances, from the very easy to get start but not as well supported nor portable SVN, to the very portable yet hard to work with and get going Git; and finally Perforce, a sort of in-between: easy to get started and pull the files you want, yet difficult to perform more complicated tasks such as branching and integrating. Supporting a rich GUI for most tasks, as well as a command-line interface for automated or more complicated tasks, Perforce can find favor with users of varying need and technical proficiency.
- Perforce has a feature rich GUI making it somewhat easy to find files, and historical changes, as well as utility features to better visualize changes over time.
- The concept of change lists, client specs, and branches is unique to a large extent, and adds value in high customization for each user.
- Perforce is well supported, and has plenty of information on use both officially, and through other user experience as documented on the web.
- Perforce tends to feel backwards in how it approaches certain tasks, like branching and integrating - even once you figure out how it wants you to perform these tasks, you will likely forget when it comes around to the next time you need to do them again.
- Perforce has a higher price tag, comparatively.
- Perforce make some tasks very easy, and yet other tasks very difficult - it doesn't always seem to have found its target user's proficiency.
- Client specs allow high customization in what your view of the repo looks like.
- Integrating and branching is very difficult. I've been one of the main people in performing this task as it takes a great deal of technical proficiency, and I seem to have to re-learn how to perform these tasks every time.
- Perforce feels like a ecosystem, a complete solution. It requires you to learn its speak, and order of operation, however, it comes with solutions for every possible task you'd need to perform, and is highly script-able when you want to further customize.
- SVN,GIT
Perforce has more features than SVN. However even the simpler tasks in SVN require a degree more technical aptitude with Perforce. Git offers most of the same features, however most of these are only really supported via the command-line in Git, where as most tasks can be performed through Perforce's GUI. Perforce is much more expensive than the other two.
- Perforce is easy to install, and in the case you are not creating complicated client specs, easy to get the files you need.
- Branching and integration of other branches is extremely complicated, and feels like it moves backwards.
- The software, GUI and commandline interface, are feature rich and relatively straightforward to use, as long as you know what you are trying to use.
- Branching
- Re-integrating
- Complicated client specs
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