Plastic SCM - The Distributed Version Control for Big Projects

		Plastic	Git	Perforce	Subversion
Flexibility	Good to work centralized Just checkin, no push/pull	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Good to work distributed Push/pull + local repo	Yes	Yes	No	Can't do
Binaries	Good with huge repos	Yes	No	Yes	Not really
Good with huge files	Yes	No	Yes	Sometimes
Can lock files to avoid merging Binaries, art, docus	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
GUI	Visualizes your repos So you don't need a PhD in branching	Yes It's our core	Nope	Nope	Nope
Comes with great GUIs		Uh-oh	Well Compare with ours	Uh-oh
Special GUI & workflow for artists And anyone not a coder	Gluon!	No	No	No
Workflow	Can really do task branches Thousands of branches, no matter what	Yes	Core could Tools… uh-oh	Nope	Nope
Merge	Very good detecting merges between branches	Yes	Yes	Not really	Painful
Comes with great diff and 3-way merge tools	Super Good Our job	No Go grab one	Yes But compare with Plastic	No Go grab one
Tools help you understand the merge (a preview)	Yep	What tools?	Uh-oh	Uh-oh
Good merging renames, moved files, directories, crazy refactors	My job
Cloud	Can host repos in the cloud	Yes Plastic Cloud	Superb GitHub/Lab/etc	Some providers do	Some providers do
Cloud hosting is good with huge repos	Yes
Diff	Can diff code moved across files	Yup
Can show you the history of a method	Yup
	You can reach the engineers	Here we are	Try to reach Linus

Plastic

Git

Perforce

Subversion

Flexibility

Good to work centralized

Just checkin, no push/pull

Yes

Good to work distributed

Push/pull + local repo

Yes

Can't do

Binaries

Good with huge repos

Yes

Not really

Good with huge files

Yes

Sometimes

Can lock files to avoid merging

Binaries, art, docus

Yes

GUI

Visualizes your repos

So you don't need a PhD in branching

Yes
It's our core

Nope

Comes with great GUIs

Uh-oh

Well
Compare with ours

Uh-oh

Special GUI & workflow for artists

And anyone not a coder

Gluon!

Workflow

Can really do task branches

Thousands of branches, no matter what

Yes

Core could
Tools… uh-oh

Nope

Merge

Very good detecting merges between branches

Yes

Not really

Painful

Comes with great diff and 3-way merge tools

Super Good
Our job

No
Go grab one

Yes
But compare with Plastic

No
Go grab one

Tools help you understand the merge (a preview)

Yep

What tools?

Uh-oh

Good merging renames, moved files, directories, crazy refactors

My job

Cloud

Can host repos in the cloud

Yes
Plastic Cloud

Superb
GitHub/Lab/etc

Some
providers do

Cloud hosting is good with huge repos

Yes

Diff

Can diff code moved across files

Yup

Can show you the history of a method

Yup

You can reach the engineers

Here we are

Try to reach
Linus

Game development

Big files, huge projects, Unity and Unreal? Tired of Perforce and can’t go to Git? We got you covered – learn more.

Artists need a simpler tool, locking and hate branches? Check Plastic Gluon.

Host your projects in the Cloud

We host your repositories online so you can forget about server maintenance and upgrades. Even when your repos are in the hundreds of GB range.

Team infrastructure

Distributed team? Covered.
Need to work centralized? Solved too.
Need strong branching and merging? Checked.

Scale Git-like workflows

You need Git-like branching and merging, distributed, but miss security, huge project support, scalability. Check this.

Perforce migration

You need the industrial-strength but also modern version control. Then check how to migrate .

Implement DevOps

You can implement a true DevOps cycle with Plastic SCM and Bamboo/TeamCity/Jenkins. Learn more.

Less work in progress

More tasks delivered

What makes Plastic SCM different?

A few things you can solve with Plastic SCM

Game development

Host your projects in the Cloud

Team infrastructure

Scale Git-like workflows

Perforce migration

Implement DevOps

From small studios to corporations with +3000 developers in Plastic SCM

DevOps for SMB Owners