Perforce Software, maker of version management software, announced its Versioning Engine has been validated as VMware (NYSE: VMW) Ready, the virtualization kingpin’s highest level of endorsement, achieved after a detailed process examining the developer’s P4D software now newly housed on the VMware Solution Exchange (VSX).
“While Perforce has been deployed on virtual machines for
Git, the open source revision control system, is already massively popular among developers. But Perforce, which focuses on software management solutions in both the open source and proprietary worlds, thinks Git can be even better.
I am working on c++ files managed by perforce.
When I did integration, I made some mistakes so that others' changes also become my change.
Now, I need to reverse this by doing integration. But, perforce cannot find the differences of ny changes and others changes.
But, I do not want to do it manually , I would like to ask perforce to do it in p4v (a perforce GUI).
VMware continued its embrace of open source software with its recent acquisition of open source and virtual network provider Nicira. The move continued VMware's aggressive M&A strategy and its effort to transition from proprietary software and virtualization to a broader market and cloud computing, largely through open source software.
Enterprises looking to attract new talent would do well to figure out how to use git, since most new hires will come in with mastery of it and will find it annoying to use crufty older version control systems. Unfortunately, enterprises often have well-established release processes built around their existing tools, making it extremely hard to replace them with something new like git.
Editor’s note: Heather Meeker is a shareholder and chair of the IP/IT Licensing and Transactions Group in the international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, and a leading authority on open-source software licensing.
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