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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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PlasticSCM revision tree for multiple files

In the PlasticSCM client GUI, is there a way to view a "joint" 2D revision tree for more than one file? That is, to see all changesets which touched one of a set of files I specify. I can't find a way to view anything else than "revision tree of one…
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User configuration for TeamCity and Plastic SCM

I'm currently 'playing' with Plastic and their (brand new) TeamCity integration plugin. The plugin blurb says "When installing Team City on Windows systems, it normally uses the SYSTEM user account. We recommend changing the user that executes the…
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Where is the delete repository button?

Logging into plastic scm I don't see a way to delete my repository, am I missing something?
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Merging changes in intermediate branches with DVCS

I have been working with Plastic SCM for a while, but only recently discovered a flaw in my mental model of how change sets in branches work. Consider this simple scenario: Assume I have a branch A with a file foo.txt I branch latest change set of…
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DVCS strategies for mixed-role small team?

I've done a lot of reading, and have been trialing GIT, GIT Tortoise, Tortoise SVN and PlasticSCM, to find the right source control for our small team (5-10 users). Some background on our team: 6 copy writers/editors (2 remote), 2 developers, 2…
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How well does Plastic SCM import from SourceSafe?

I'm evaluating SCM's for a potential move away from SourceSafe. Plastic SCM makes a good impression. I saw that it has an importer from SourceSafe but couldn't find a lot of information about how it handles some of VSS specialities - namely "Shared…
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Repetitive merges in GIT. How does it calculate differences?

I've been doing a research of trying to understand how does the GIT merge works. I know there are several merge types as recursive, octopus, etc. I figured out that the resolve / recursive is used the most commonly. And that recursive merge is only…
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Workflow for using Plastic SCM with public code hosting services

Is there a straightforward workflow to use Plastic SCM in-house while using one of the popular code hosting services like github or Bitbucket preferrably without requiring "double bookkeeping"?
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Can I work with git locally and sync to Plastic SCM server

I understand that a sync can happen between the git hosting services but I would like to know if it is possible to use git locally and then set it up in such a way that I can sync with the Plastic SCM server. Ie the inverse of what gitsync does...my…
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Setting up replicated repositories in Plastic SCM

So we're trying to set up replicated repositories using PlasticSCM, one in the US, and one in Australia and running into a bit of a snag. The US configuration is Active Directory, the AU configuration is User/Password. This in itself is not a big…
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Long Paths with Plastic SCM and node.js project

I am using Plastic SCM v4.x (on windows 7/8) and have a projects that uses node.js. The modules and module dependencies in the project create path lengths that are > 259 characters. Windows explorer has a problem with this when I try to access the…
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Using PlasticSCM (or any DVCS client) to connect to TFS

Has anyone used the PlasticSCM client tools to work against a TFS repository? Basically my current client is using the new hosted TFS for version control (not TFS-Git, just standard TFS), but I have seen the light of distributed version control…
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Plastic SCM Repository Permission Inheritance/Assignment

I have been evaluating it for some time, testing different scenarios and trying different configurations. During this time, I have deleted and recreated my repositories a number of times. Each time, I have had to go back and reassign all of the…
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How to I set up a vendor branch workflow for Plastic SCM?

I have been thrown into a software development project where we have a PHP application from a vendor with fairly regular code updates. I need to be able to build on top of this code while, at the same time, I need to be able to track the changes in…
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Using go modules with Plastic SCM

How would one go about setting up private go modules when using Plastic SCM as the version control system? Specifically I am talking about making commands like go get work when the module is under PlasticSCM vcs: $ go get myorg.com/foo/bar From the…
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