Subversion is FREE, Perforce is NOT for "commercial"
use. End of evaluation IMHO, agin for commercial use.
I'm not saying that makes Subversion "better", but
it does the job adequately - except for cumbersome
branching/merging.
I've evaluated BOTH, and chose Subversion at work
ONLY for that reason. If only for personal use, I'd
probably use Perforce.
Perforce supports a "configuration spec" idea, similar
to Clearcase (but not quite) though, which neither CVS
nor Subversion sadly do NOT.
-chris
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kenneth Porter [mailto:shiva@sewingwitch.com]
>Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 6:27 PM
>To: users@subversion.tigris.org
>Subject: Perforce versus Subversion
>
>A coworker pointed out this document on the Perforce website:
>
><http://www.perforce.com/perforce/comparisons/perforce_subversion.pdf>
>
>Except for the benchmarks reported, Perforce just claims to do
>things differently (but worded in a way to make it sound like
>they're better, if you know nothing about Subversion or FOSS).
>
>Has anyone responded to this?
>
>My biggest concern with a commercial product is a proprietary
>closed data format. The Subversion dump format gives me a lot
>of peace of mind on this issue. I haven't seen any indication
>that Perforce offers something comparable.
>
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