Re: Perforce comparison

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Garrett Rooney wrote:

> On 9/26/07, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > I think their "distributed development" row (which is actually just
> > about slow network links) kind of inverts the story. My muddled
> > understanding is that Perforce is much more dependent upon a fast
> > network link because you typically NFS-mount your working copy.
>
> Actually it's more the fact that you have to contact the server for
> almost all actions, you don't actually NFS mount your working copy in
> p4 (perhaps you're thinking of clearcase?).

...because all p4 WC meta data is stored server-side; only the equivalent
of Subversion's text-base is stored client-side.

-- 
Daniel Rall