Perforce

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Perforce is a commercial, proprietary Revision Control (RC) system. It is developed by Perforce Software, Inc., which was founded in 1995 by Christopher Seiwald.

The Perforce system is based on a client/server model with the server managing the collection of source versions in one or more depots. The server runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, or Microsoft Windows operating systems.

As of December 2006, Perforce Software claims more than 200,000 developers at 4,000 organizations use the system. [1]

The client side provides graphical and command line tools for a number of operating systems. Also available is a suite of plugins that integrate with various programming IDEs (Visual Studio, Codewright, etc.) and third party applications.[2]

Other features of the system include support for reporting (i.e., notifying users when a file has changed), branching and merging, database checkpoints, and defect tracking.

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  1. ^ About page on perforce.com: http://www.perforce.com/perforce/corp.html
  2. ^ It integrates with such applications as as Xcode, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Alias Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Eclipse, and Emacs.

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