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Written by Alanna on 2025-01-11 at 12:17

The next person who advocates that "Perforce is more user friendly than Git and better for artists." to my face will get a custard pie in response. It really isn't any different to any other VCS is terms of complexity and arguing that it is "user friendly" compared to git is just lies.

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Written by Juan on 2025-01-11 at 12:19

@kelpana are people confusing a GUI with the VCS itself?

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Written by Alanna on 2025-01-11 at 12:27

@reidrac Possibly. The Perforce GUI just run cli commands anyway.

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Written by Juan on 2025-01-11 at 12:45

@kelpana years ago I knew people that loved SVN... but not really. It was because TortoiseSVN was a good GUI 😂

If there is no good git GUI, then fair enough.

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Written by Eniko Fox on 2025-01-11 at 13:03

@reidrac @kelpana there's TortoiseGit >_>

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Written by prozacchiwawa on 2025-01-11 at 13:17

@kelpana perforce having a live checkout state likely makes things a bit easier for artists since their work is less likely to be mergeable.

my experience was that the biggest cause of confusion for artists was p4's use of server side tracking of local checkouts, but git managed to make a worse bad choice with file 'staging'.

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Written by Alanna on 2025-01-11 at 13:23

@prozacchiwawa There are ways around this problem in Git. Git is distributed in nature, so the staging system makes sense. It isn't really that different to a Perforce change list in practice. The locking feature of git-lfs largely solves the problem of large binary files causing merge conflicts. If you have large binary files in your repo you should use git-lfs: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/File-Locking

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Written by prozacchiwawa on 2025-01-11 at 13:32

@kelpana i think the biggest difference between a changelist in p4 and staging in git is that git changes how it views the modified state of staged files whereas p4 doesn't make that weird.

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