Perforce Support Portal (2024)

FAQs

Is Perforce still being used? ›

Rob Oates, an industry veteran who is currently the senior director of technology and partnerships at Exploding Kittens said, “Perforce still sees use in the game industry because c video game projects (by variety, count, and total volume of assets) are almost entirely not code.”

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Email support@perforce.com and reference "Swarm" in the subject line. Email is preferable when you need direct assistance.

Though we started with Git, today, we index a lot of code outside of Git, including package repositories like NPM, PyPI, and Maven, and non-Git code hosts like Perforce. Perforce is used by many large enterprises and game development companies due to its ability to scale and handle large asset files.

Because Git can work offline, you can expect better performance than Perforce when it comes to creating branches or checking out files. Committing is quite fast in Git because it stores the committed file locally and can push (upload) it in the background.

Perforce's customers are software developers at a wide variety of companies, including Salesforce, Netflix, SAP, Disney, Intuit and the NYSE. The company is considered a leader in the gaming space, with 18 of the top 20 games developers including Ubisoft and Electronic Arts using Perforce version control.

For teams working on larger codebases or in repos that contain other large digital assets, Perforce Helix Core is a better solution because it can handle large binary files much more efficiently than Git LFS. Additionally, it easily manages thousands of digital assets and supports over 10,000 concurrent commits.

Perforce provides key integrations with many Microsoft products to help teams scale their agile and DevOps initiatives. Now you can increase developer productivity and support your team's entire development lifecycle.

Minneapolis-based Perforce finished 2018 with revenue of $150 million and 450 employees around the globe, who serve customers in 80 countries, including more than half of the member companies of the Fortune 500. The Rogue Wave acquisition brings employment to 900 and consolidated revenue to about $300 million.

What is the meaning of Perforce? ›

of necessity; necessarily; by force of circ*mstance: The story must perforce be true.

Perforce is now approaching $300 million in total revenue.

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Perforce has always supported small teams working to develop big things. And with Helix TeamHub, that approach is no different.

Log in to a Perforce server by obtaining a ticket. The p4 login command authenticates a user and creates a ticket that represents a session with a Perforce server. Once authenticated, a user may access the Perforce server until either the ticket expires or until the user issues the p4 logout command.

Why Companies Still Use Subversion (SVN) Today. Apache Subversion (SVN) has been used for over 20 years in large file size projects and remains a popular choice for version control among semiconductor and game companies today.