Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Perforce streams - a new feature in Perforce (not yet released)

Perforce is coming up with a new feature called "streams". Not mentioned when it will be released. But they are promoting that, this feature will enhances branch management and reduces merge issues.

What is a stream?
                A stream describes about branch like depot location, owner, it's parent branch and more. It is a branching and merging application based on the perforce system.

Notable features:
·         Streams provide a centralized control to manage project related workspaces. Just setup one stream view and link your workspace to that stream.
                Whenever stream view changes, it automatically update workspace views.
·         Streams can be used to compute sensible defaults for merges
·         P4V is being enhanced to show streams in a slick visual flowchart, and to offer a simple interface for sophisticated stream tasks.

The current available details about this feature can be obtained from these links
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