I am that "London Developer" and can't agree more with what Scott has said
(and I'm not saying this just because he's my boss), Perforce is a wonderful
product which has made a potentially difficult situation very easy. Other
great features include being able to skip back to previous changes in the
documents history so you can eradicate any error your boss may have made.
:-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 5:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Source Control
Yep, it does work that way. I work with another developer in London and due
to our combined laziness, I mean time-zone difference, this program allows
him to not have to wait for me to get in so he can change something. It's
really easy to merge the differences as well. It can even auto-merge for you
which I've heard is pretty accurate but I'm afraid to try. When you merge it
will show you the original page code and your changes in one color, the
other persons changes in another one. You can then easily merge the two
together. Or you can viciously overwrite all their changes. :-)
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan G. Switzer, II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 11:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Source Control
Actually, it does a bit compare and can merge the edited sections together,
letting the user confirm the changes before saving them.
I'm not saying this is a feature that should be used widely, but there have
been a number of times a developer has left work without checking a document
back in, where I just needed to make a quick change to the document.
(Usually a spelling error or something like that.) Unfortunately, with them
having the document checked out, I can't make the change. This feature would
allow me to make the change, then when they go to check in the document, it
will warn them that a change has occurred and show them what the document
looks like with the merged changes. They can then either except the changes
or save only their version. (At least this is the way I gather it works from
the docs-I've yet to try it.)
-Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 11:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Source Control
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan G. Switzer, II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 11:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Source Control
backburner until I had more time to play with it. However, there are some
really killer features (like being able to have multiple developers work on
the same document) which I'm dying to play around with. Unfortunately, I
Doesn't that break the whole concept change control? This feature is
currently available windows explorer.
Duane
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