People don’t necessarily “like” Perforce. However it is functional for professional game projects, and other systems like Git and Mercurial are not. Perforce is

People don’t necessarily “like” Perforce. However it is functional for professional game projects, and other systems like Git and Mercurial are not. Perforce is ripe for disruption. > if that’s not a copy of the repository, how is it in any way equivalent and what exactly is the difference? “Distributed” implies the user machine is at least capable of downloading the full repo history. Git defaults to full clones and has various shallow clone features. It also implies support for extremely convoluted graphs and edge cases. Offline implies a single central hub you connect to and sync with at some later point. I expect the only use case for downloading full history to be for backup purposes. Almost all operations can be performed without having access to every version of every file.