Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated

Post by sam_lowry_ » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:06 PM UTC

jordand wrote: post #40

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #10

If you are using Perforce as an enterprise system, $500 is peanuts. Perforce can get pricey. We used to be a Perforce shop, in my last job. However, I continue to be amazed that Perforce survived Git. I assume its ability to handle large binaries has been what saved it. I seem to remember an HN posting, some time ago, about a new system, aimed at creatives, and that handles big binaries. It looked fairly good, but no…

Yeah there's no good alternative Version Control right now that can handle large binaries. And for Lore from Epic Games, while it's still 2-3 years away from being suitable for Game productions to replace Perforce, there's genuine interest and excitement about using/testing it (in some cases, studios are spending tens of thousands on P4 licenses they don't really want). Lore is already used at scale in UEFN across a…

Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:18 PM UTC

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #61

jordand wrote: post #40

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Yeah there's no good alternative Version Control right now that can handle large binaries. And for Lore from Epic Games, while it's still 2-3 years away from being suitable for Game productions to replace Perforce, there's genuine interest and excitement about using/testing it (in some cases, studios are spending tens of thousands on P4 licenses they don't really want). Lore is already used at scale in UEFN across a…

git lfs?

Post by redsocksfan45 » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:27 PM UTC

zorked wrote: post #38

pjmlp wrote: post #30

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Which would have failed had it been developed by someone else, without being a requirement for Linux kernel development.

The Linux kernel adopted Bitkeeper before git and it never spread out from there. It's not that many people working on the kernel. git growth was very symbiotic with GitHub growth. I don't remember why GitHub became popular in the first place. I think it was the Ruby community? GitHub was one of their own during an explosion of Ruby on Rails and successful startups using it.

Post by ndriscoll » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:38 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #59

tomsmeding wrote: post #56

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It ought not to, indeed. However, if you want "save my file" to include awareness of other developers concurrently working on the same project -- even the same file -- with a decent way to handle conflicts, it suddenly becomes complicated. Git is probably not the optimal way of designing a UI around this, but it's not like this is an easy problem.

MINE | MERGED | THEIRS where you can select elements from both and have them merge into the middle. Or the p4 merge way of: MINE | THEIRS ------------- MERGED Even most GUI's for git do it this way actually. Merging should not be a major issue, it should be a trivial annoyance. It shouldn't drop you into an interactive rebase that invalidates every object after it (necessarily).

Post by ndriscoll » Sun, Jul 19, 2026, 12:42 PM UTC

momocowcow wrote: post #35

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #10

If you are using Perforce as an enterprise system, $500 is peanuts. Perforce can get pricey. We used to be a Perforce shop, in my last job. However, I continue to be amazed that Perforce survived Git. I assume its ability to handle large binaries has been what saved it. I seem to remember an HN posting, some time ago, about a new system, aimed at creatives, and that handles big binaries. It looked fairly good, but no…

Im amazed git survived at all. Such a mess of complexity and exotic jargon to abstract away something that should be inherently simple. After 20 years I can use it with ease thanks to llms.