The Perforce SCM Tool
Perforce is a very interesting player in the SCM tools market. It
provides some high end features such as branching and merging and yet
at a low end price.
There is a lot of very good information on the Perforce web
site. The following are a few guidelines to help you find
information:
 
We recommend downloading and printing out the PDF versions of all of the manuals.
The User Guide is good for a structured review of the product
including some nicely worked examples to give you a flavour of how to
use the tool - recommended.
The System Administrators Guide is also excellent though not required
reading for everyone.
The p4 Command Reference is a list of every p4 command and the
various options that they take. Very good to remind you about what
the options mean and to look for relevant commands. In addition there
are sections at the back of the manual with environment variable
definitions, how to specify file revisions and the different file
types.
These are well worth a read and at least printing out the list of
them to have to hand for easy reference - amazing how many questions
they answer.
I prefer the complete index of all notes - its easy to tell
from the titles how relevant they are, rather than the standard (search) interface.
Some good background reading here. The High Level Best Practices includes some great
stuff on branching.
The Web Content Management with Perforce has some
very interesting ideas.
Useful stuff contributed by several people:
FAQ for beginning Perforce users
FAQ for Perforce system administrators
FAQ about using Perforce with build scripts
Of particular interest is the The Branching Papers FAQ. This contains some
excellent explanations of what goes on under the covers and also
gives recommendations for branching strategies. It answers some
interesting questions.
This is a very useful resource. The archives are searchable. Everyone on the list is very helpful
and questions posted here will be responded to very quickly. Well
worth the subscription.
The archive is also available.
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