It is Perforce - P4 free and easy to use with VisualStudio 2010/2012 ? Looking around the web of perforce I don't get it clear. I remember reading some article of a Valve programmer about the great things about perforce in source control, how fast and all that it was, but I see it complicated o set up. Is anyone better, or a good tutorial about this?
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As far as I know, Perforce is free for up to 20 users (http://www.perforce.com/downloads/try).
We are using it at work and I like it pretty much. It works well with VS 2010. I don't know about 2012, but I guess it should be fine. It's being used by the major game development companies (http://www.perforce.com/customers/solutions/game-development), mainly because it can easily handle large binary files.
I can't really help you about setting up a server ('m just a user), but I guess you can find good tutorial on their website.
Remeber you need to have the full version of VS to have any plugins work inside of it.
Perforce isn't that hard to setup to be honest, just install the client and server. Tell the server where to store repositories and import your first repository from the client into the server. After that you need to check out the files you want to use, unlike SVN you don't have the files checked out by defeault.
Perforce works very well with VS2012. Though, as far as I know you can only use the VS plugins with the paid professional versions of VS. Does not make much difference though, since the P4V client works well. So, if you plan to use the express edition of VS be prepared to do most of your version control work outside of VS.
I am not sure how much work it is to set up, but it should not be more complicated than any other typical network service. If you are looking for something really easy, Mercurial seems to be a real breeze to set up. http://hgbook.red-bean.com/
I wasn't aware of the plugin limitation with the free version. Are you sure about that? All the plugins are available to download for free on their website. There's also this open source plugin: http://code.google.com/p/niftyplugins/
Edit: Oh... you meant the paid version of VS, not perforce! Sorry...
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For working alone, client and server can be put in the same computer without losing advantages or slow down computer? I mean for example putting repository and backup in one harddrive while OS and all working files are in other. I remember using once some program that used an SQL server, I installed everything in the same computer and the sqlserver process was huge and was slowing down my computer even making it unusable.
As for the plungin limitation for 2010 look here: http://vinayakgarg.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/features-missing-in-visual-studio-2010-express/
In short it is plugins and a few other things which won't make much of a difference unless you as a user need it. 2012 is a bit better but still lacks the plugin capability.
As for working alone I have never used Perforce but used svn/git on my local computer without much of problem. You could also use an old computer you have to store your repository on which I found works quite well.
(Sorry for formatting/spelling mistakes - posting on a phone.)
In short it is plugins and a few other things which won't make much of a difference unless you as a user need it. 2012 is a bit better but still lacks the plugin capability.
As for working alone I have never used Perforce but used svn/git on my local computer without much of problem. You could also use an old computer you have to store your repository on which I found works quite well.
(Sorry for formatting/spelling mistakes - posting on a phone.)
I wasn't aware of the plugin limitation with the free version. Are you sure about that? All the plugins are available to download for free on their website. There's also this open source plugin: http://code.google.com/p/niftyplugins/
The problem is not with the source control software. The free versions of VS simply don't work with any plugins, be they source control plugins or anything else.
For working alone, client and server can be put in the same computer without losing advantages or slow down computer? I mean for example putting repository and backup in one harddrive while OS and all working files are in other. I remember using once some program that used an SQL server, I installed everything in the same computer and the sqlserver process was huge and was slowing down my computer even making it unusable.
I have this kind of setup for my home projects as I find it extremely usefull to see what I did previously, if not only to not make the same mistakes or see what I have thought before. I have never really seen any slowdown on the machine, as long as you tell the VS plugin and the client not to fstat(check status of open files and changelist ever so often).
Client-server model SCMs are just a degenerate case of distributed SCMs; you can model a client-server SCM with a distributed one, but you can't model a distributed SCM with a client-server one. Also, Git's merge tool is killer, and without its powerful merge tool, branching (which is a vital operation in mature code bases) is just too difficult and dangerous to bother.
I remember thinking SVN was leagues away from VSS or CVS in quality. Now, I see them as more alike than different. All client-server SCMs are basically garbage, and Git is the gold standard of distributed SCMs.
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