Perforce Helix Core

“Well within what a decent perforce setup can do with enough replicas.”

“It scaled pretty well compared to everything else.”

“It scaled to handle the needs of every organization in the industry except Google and Microsoft.”

“P4 handles large binaries very well, caveat being the rest of P4.”

“Perforce, in my experience, just worked.”

“P4's licensing is predatory.”

“it does need a lot of hand holding from an admin”

“I can also teach a game designer or artist who has never heard of source control how to correctly and safely use P4 in about 15 minutes.”

“joining a company that's already using P4 is never, ever going to be that simple”

“Using P4 is: Download P4V, install plugin for $EDITOR, and double click on a changelist to submit.”

“You can trust Helix and Perforce because they have been doing this for decades”

“This is exactly why we use perforce and just shove _everything_ in it.”

“migrating off p4 onto svn was such a relief”

“P4 struck me as "what a for-profit corporation would imagine a VCS should be like"”

“Running a P4 server is an exercise in self torture, but it's the only option with UE5.”

“It's expensive as hell and they don't have operational costs related to hosting”

“its awkward and practically nothing supports the workflow”

“Older than it has any right to be. Has quiet "dark matter" support contracts with a lot of companies you wouldn't think need Perforce”

“we have a team dedicated to the care and feeding of p4”

“it is the de facto industry standard that most of your creative staff is already familiar with”

“P4 is more "industry standard" than "state of the art"... But it does handle large files and partial checkouts without feeling bolted on.”

“It is not the incumbent because it is particularily simple to use or administer.”

“it hits enough snags that you need a tools engineer to manage it”

“I like p4/helix for the locking when working on something like a game”

“p4->piper/citc was done well”

“p4 makes me wake up at night screaming.”

“It handles binary assets much better than Git, IMO. However, its one weakness is its terrible security defaults.”

“P4 was apparently not that great at branches and google3 didn't use them.”

“What you can do in P4 is work in trunk, make sure you have latest and lock binary files you're working on.”

“Perforce is expensive AF and is also kinda meh.”