Tuesday 9 December 2003 — This is nearly 21 years old. Be careful.
I really like Perforce as a source control system. It is clean, and solid, and has great support. But its merge tool blows giant chunks. It looks like a Win16 application, and uses an entire spectrum of confusing (and ugly) colors. I could deal with any of that, here’s the clincher: it occasionally inserts newlines into the merged files! Identifiers get split across two lines, and the compile breaks. What’s up with that!?
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The fact that Perforce offers the ability to put third party tools in there speaks volumes. Specifically, it says, "Please put a third party tool in there!"
If you absolutely need to have it merges right, Araxis is the way to go. Of course, it *is* $180/seat. Grumble...
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