
15
Improving Remote Perforce Usage
Mike O’Connor
15.1 Introduction
Love it or hate it, most of us find ourselves using Perforce in our daily routines,
from syncing to the latest changes at the beginning of the day to digging through
the revision history of a file to track down when and where a bug was introduced.
For the majority of us that’s as much as we need to think about it.
But what if that Perforce server, which you interact with frequently throughout
the day, wasn’t tucked away in a server room just down the hall? What if it was
on the other side of the country, or even another continent? How would that affect
you?
15.2 Remote Reality
I found out