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OneGuyInDc
OneGuyInDc

Reputation: 1565

Equivalent of Clearcase streams in Perforce

I come from Clearcase world and am trying to learn Perforce at my new company

Clearcase has a concept of streams (which is different than a branch). Likewise Perforce also has a concept of Streams.

The Question Is the perforce stream same as Clearcase stream.

Thanks Pedro

Upvotes: 1

Views: 269

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323453

Perforce Streams follows the same logic than ClearCase UCM Streams, in that they:

  • Model the flow of change
  • Provide Fast context switching and in-place branching
  • Manage stream composition and dependencies

You do find the same notion of parent/children stream hierachy (see p4 stream).

The main difference is in its content:

  • P4 Stream contents are defined by the paths that you map (so you can map any path you want)
  • UCM Streams are defined by the baselines of the components (which are fixed paths, one for each component: you cannot specify any path)

And through the new virtual Streams (2012.1 version of Perforce), they even allows you to visualize a subset of configuration (filtered view): that isn't present in UCM streams.

Upvotes: 5

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