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Plastic SCM is a Distributed Version Control System focused on branch visualization, usability and enterprise support. Some of the main features are: Branch explorer, Syntactic and Semantic diff and merge tool (C, C++, C#, Java and .NET), Repo management on premise and Cloud, Cross platform apps and GUIs. Specific GUI for artists and last mile DevOps CI automation.

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What is Plastic SCM

Plastic SCM is the best Distributed Version Control supporting task-driven software development for teams of any size because it simplifies branching and merging. It works the way you want!

  • Fully Distributed or Centralized repos
  • Branching and Merging made Simple
  • Powerful GUI or straight command line
  • Reliable & Scalable Repo Storage with the RDBMS of your choice

Who is it for

Plastic SCM is for developers who love the freedom of distributed and simple branching and merging. It is for managers who need to lead distributed teams and understand the status of the project. And it is for release builders who need to create stable releases.

Plastic SCM is the only version control system that can meet the demands of globally distributed development. It easily scales within any sophisticated development environment, without friction or complexity. It's SCM made simple.

What makes Plastic different

Three key aspects of Plastic SCM's architecture make it superior to other systems:

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Updating Workspace automatically after Sync/Pull branch in PlasticSCM Cloud

So I'm on branch /main/a I sync the Cloud to my local repo, and see changes in /main/a. I pull the branch. Now, to get those files to my workspace, I need to change to the Workspace tab, and then press Update Workspace. How can this be automated so…
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Is it possible to make partial workspaces with the PlasticSCM Jenkins plugin?

Since our SCM projects are usually quite large, I'd like to only "clone" what's necessary to perform an automated build of a project from within Jenkins. The commandline interface to PlasticSCM, allows the creation of partial workspaces with cm…
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How to get GUID of current workspace

cm status gives me the changeset number of the workspace (e.g. cs:5178). Is there any way for me to retrieve the associated GUID, from the command line?
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Safely update Plastic workspace from command-line

I'm writing a command-line script (bat file) to update a few Plastic workspaces. Some users of the script use Plastic SCM GUI and others use Gluon. That means that the workspaces are either in "full mode" (Plastic SCM GUI) or in partial mode…
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Unable to use "cm unlock" command

We are using Plastic SCM cloud server, and I am unable to use the cm unlock [server] [guid] command to unlock locked files. It returns the error: Only administrators can execute 'cm unlock' command. You're not an administrator so you can't run 'cm…
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New directories and files are ignored

Heyo. I don't know what happened to my workspace, but all my dirs and files are ignored by default and I need manually unignore them to make them visible in the tree. For example, I added dir with the…
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Migrating Plastic SCM from SQLite to MSSQL Server backend

There is Plastic SCM Server 6.0.16.1765 installed on the development server (MS Windows) with SQLite backend. It needs to migrate the existing repositories to MSSQL Server backend, but something goes wrong. I followed the instruction step-by-step…
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How to generate a CHANGELOG.md for a project using Plastic SCM?

As a front end developer, I'm used to work with Git and generate changelogs automatically using an NPM module named standard-version. The generated changelog is based some commit conventions, allowing the command line tool to group commits in…
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SHA in modified files during git fast-export

I'm writing an importer from Git to Plastic SCM and I found one case I wasn't aware of: M 100644 :31624 activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/array/conversions.rb M 100644 :31625 activesupport/lib/active_support/vendor.rb M 160000…
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Set up global pipeline Library with plastic scm for Jenking

I currently have a hard time grasping the concept of the Global Pipeline Libraries in jenkins. I'm a groovy newbe so please be patient with me. I'm using Plastic SCM to store the library. It is stored in a repo that acts as a central sharing point…
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View difference percentage for binary file

When PlasticSCM detects a move, it shows similarity% in the Pending Changes window. Is there a way to show this % metric, either in the GUI or from the command line, for binary files that are detected as having been changed?
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How can I see a list of files that are ignored but Added?

Scenario: Check in files. Add line to ignore.conf. Now you want to see if any of the files that you checked in previously would have been affected by the new line in ignore.conf. Is there a way to do this through either the GUI or cm?
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How do I add a local project to a new Repo with the Mac PlasticSCM client?

I created a new Repo successfully, and created a new local view, and pointed it to my existing project folder. It created the .plastic hidden folder successfully. But when I look at pending changes, it doesn't see anything, and I don't know how to…
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Sql server Not listed in PlasticScm Server configuration wizard

I want to use MS Sql Server as my Database backend with PlasticScm. When I click to configure it , my Database is not listed in backend server. It just show embedded backend. I have also checked Sql server is running I am using Windows Server 2012…
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400 Bad Request error after every checkin in Plastic GUI with Jira issue Tracker

I had a functioning setup. Then my admin made some Jira changes and now every time I do a checkin in PlasticSCM's Windows GUI I get the error message: "Unable to log checkin data into issue tracker: The remote server returned an error (400) Bad…
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