PluginFest 2007/WR Perforce

• Testers
  • Perforce: Laurette Cisneros, Pascal Soccard, Robin Gardner
  • WR: Martin Oberhuber, Doug Gaff
• Products tested
  • WB 2.6, Perforce 2006.2
• Overall Result
  • Worked, with a few issues
• Tests
  • Installed perforce server and client & WB 2.6
  • Added files from a project to the Depot
  • Tested check-in, check-out, diff.
  • Rename project
  • Rename file
• Problems
  • Compare editor - save button doesn't check out automatically
  • Setting up the default workspace in perforce to see your Eclipse workspace is an important step that users need to get right
  • Line endings: perforce defaults to local, but Eclipse defaults to keep line endings as-is in the file. When you do a version diff, you might see every line changed. Tried changing perforce to "share", but this put the version in the Depot in Unix line style.
  • When you rename the project, the version control associations are lost
  • In Perforce Perspective, the Window - Show View menu doesn't show the shortcuts to the perforce views (they are listed in Other).
  • Submitted Changelist view - Depot view provides context selection, but editor does not.
  • Submit at the project level is broken. (Has been fixed in recent release.)
  • Feature request: CVS has a drop down to show previous comments on check-in. Would be nice for Perforce, too.
  • Had some problems creating branches.
• Screenshot