Laura Wingerd

I’ve been a big fan of the Perforce source control management software since my days with Syndeo Systems. We set up Perforce as our S.C.M. and loved it. It has some huge pluses over the standard at the time, Microsoft’s SourceSafe. The biggest plus was a great branch and merge paradigm, and atomic changelists. It is also fast.

t’s author is a Vice President with Perforce, so don’t expect an unbiased look at the tool. However, only the preface is a pure marketing pitch. I was expecting show more something that covered the basics of how to use Perforce and little else. I am pleasantly surprised.

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This is a great book for learning perforce and source control strategies in general. The first half focuses on how to use perforce from the command line while the second gives plenty of advice on to do source control that applies to any SCM system. There are only two things that could make this book better. A 20 page appendix covering the highlights so I don't have to convince everyone to read the whole book, and a small appendix relating some of the command line steps to the GUI steps. I'm show more very happy with this book and strongly recommend it. show less

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