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No. Perforce is basically the combined worst of Subversion and Visual Source Safe, and something you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. Because it is so limit
by tutufan 11y ago
No. Perforce is basically the combined worst of Subversion and Visual Source Safe, and something you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy.
Because it is so limited, it happens that you can store huge BLOBs in it, which is something that's not directly possible with git (but see git-annex). This isn't really a limitation, though, because the desire to store huge BLOBs in your version control system alongside C++/etc source is utterly confused. For large, undiffable assets like that, you want to keep them in a permanent store, kind of like the way the gnu.org keeps the tarballs for its multitude of projects.
There's a reason why absolutely nobody uses Perforce for personal projects, even though the license to do so is free. It's because Perforce's day, if it ever had one, is long gone. It's just an attractive nuisance now.