Re: Pros and cons of perforce

Mighty big source files there. Are you sure they aren't binaries, or 
complete Liux distributions packaged into tar gzip/bzip2 files?

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> Hi,Chou
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> Thanks for your interst and reply.
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> Something I must talk clear first. The source files I need are very 
> larges, more than 1 G.
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> You question just give me some hint, thanks again.
> The network architect is like this,
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> ME (client) ---> local server ---> remote server
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> I just need to connect local server, which will sync with remote server.
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> I will try to connect remote server directly again.
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> Best Regards,
> Forrest
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> *Al Chou <hotfusionman-/[email protected]>*
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> I have synched an instance of my company's entire source code tree many 
> times using Perforce.  I don't know offhand how many thousands of files 
> that is, but it surprises me to hear that you aren't able to synch an 
> arbitrarily large number of files in one pass.  Not that I'm any great 
> fan of Perforce, just surprised that it isn't minimally functional for 
> you.  Does the synch proceed really slowly?  What kind of network 
> connection do you have to your Perforce server?
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> Al
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> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 8:36:49 PM
> Subject: [pragprog] Pros and cons of perforce
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> Hi all,
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> I post the message to talk about perforce in order to get more knowledge 
> on it.
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> Start to use perfore because of new project. The big issue I met is that 
> perforce can not get the latest source codes from server completely by 
> one time.
> In other words, it can not work well. Then you have to find out which 
> modules are not synced from the server and do it again.
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> I think it is really bad thing ! Maybe I use wrong configuration ?  
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> Besides, it is not free.
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> I think I point out two weakness.
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> How about you , who had experienced perforce.
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> Thanks.
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> Best Regards,
> Forrest
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