Perforce (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Perforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system developed by Perforce Software, Inc.Perforce is a client-server system. The server manages a central database and a master repository of file versions. Users work on files in local client workspaces and submit changed files together in changelists. Communication from client to the server is via any of a number of clients. Client and server communicate via TCP/IP using a proprietary RPC and streaming protocol. The Perforce database is proprietary, preconfigured, and self-installed. It stores system-related metadata. Files are identified by namespace. File content itself is not stored in the database. MD5 hashes of file content are stored in the database, however, and can be used to verify repository file integrity.