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