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Score8.2 out of 10

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Pros

Easy to use and user-friendly: Users find Plastic SCM easy to use and appreciate its intuitive user interface, allowing for quick task completion. Many reviewers have stated that they found it simple to navigate and work with the software.

GUI provides visual environment: The inclusion of a GUI in Plastic SCM is highly appreciated by users as it provides a visual environment that helps them navigate and work with the software more easily. Several reviewers have mentioned that the GUI enhances their overall experience with the tool.

Low learning curve: Plastic SCM is praised for its low learning curve, allowing users to get started quickly and without much difficulty. Many users have mentioned that they were able to adapt to the software easily, which has helped them save time and be productive from the start.

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3 Reviews

Make workflow flexible wit Plastic SCM

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are developing a big, distributed product for an aviation giant. So the business is complex and so is the technical implementation. A team of 25 people are working on it. So a distributed collaboration is required for systematic development. Plastic SCM is providing us the same environment which is most suitable for our development requirement. It supports the version control for our project and the branching and merging solution for the continuous and simultaneous development. In this way team is able to leverage the best efficiency.

Pros

  • Branching
  • Merging
  • binary freeze or locking
  • decentralized behavior
  • Efficient for large projects as well, really fast and quick
  • Versioning and controlling the repositories

Cons

  • No administrative tool, so a lot of manual work need to be done
  • Quite often the workspace for Plastic SCM disappears and its weird
  • Its not easy to use initially as it requires a knowledge and some efforts
  • Its not preferable for the small projects as to set up and use takes a lot of efforts

Likelihood to Recommend

Plastic SCM is well suited for the distributed development environment, where branching and merging can easily be handled. Its a good tool for version controlling, especially for a big team which is contributing to a big project simultaneously.

Situation where Plastic SCM is not at all well suited are : If the project is smaller one and need to be handled by couple of people. So in that case setting up Plastic SCM and educating people to work on it is not at all efficient
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Plastic, now part of Unity DevOps
2 years of experience

Great tool for Game Development - already integrated in Unity

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as a tool inside Unity. It's great to keep things organized as an alternative to github/gitlab/bitbucket. Moreover, for huge projects with lots of assets, scripts in the range of dozens, code trees ranging 5k+, it's a very reliable and already integrated tool in our workflow.

Pros

  • Version Control
  • Organizing Workflow
  • Transparency

Cons

  • Interface
  • Documentation
  • Learning curve
  • Unity integration

Likelihood to Recommend

Gluon is a beast - it's the best tool out of plastic scm. It's a bit centralized so the cons/pros are very straightforward. Our default workflow is now much easier for every single artist. github was much more complicated and eventually less tech savvy peers would need to ask for help whenever we had issues with our repos.
JJ
Jacob James Salzberg
Co-Founder at Abacus (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Plastic, now part of Unity DevOps
1 year of experience
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Great control version tool for software development

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My team uses Plastic SCM for version control, to collaborate our SaaS project within other team members working on the same software. We use it to store our unity projects on cloud. So Plastic SCM helps us to control every branch. Besides the features, it has a nice and friendly GUI.

Pros

  • Version Control
  • File Locking
  • Branch Resolution

Cons

  • Complex
  • Could be easier on integrations
  • Lot of menus

Likelihood to Recommend

Plastic SCM is moderately easy to integrate into any software application, provides multiple branching features, shelving the pending work and transition to another branch quickly. If you are in game development, and your project tree grows to tens of gigabytes easily, I highly recommend you to try out Plastic SCM, it's designed with binary files and huge repository sizes in mind.
GG
Gulam Gaus Warsi
Marketing Specialist in Marketing at Leadbook (11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Plastic, now part of Unity DevOps
1 year of experience
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