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Version Control

Branching Strategies Guide: Code Branching Strategy Best Practices

Having a dedicated branching strategy is key for teams wanting to speed up their workflows, meet tasks on a deadline, and reduce code errors. But with all the different branching strategies – including release branching, trunk-based branching, feature branching, and more – it can be difficult to determine which one best fits your team’s needs.

Introducing Sparse Streams: A New Lightweight Branching Option for Perforce Helix Core

Sparse Streams is a new way to achieve lightweight branching in Helix Core. In this clip from our recent webinar, Senior Director of Product Management Brent Schiestl gives a deep dive into this highly-anticipated feature. Learn how it can help you.

Behind the Scenes of a Real-Time Pipeline and Game Engine Migration

An international animation studio was halfway through producing a high-profile animated series when they needed a game engine migration from Unity to Unreal Engine. The studio turned to ICVR, a vetted digital production studio known for developing cutting-edge tools and pipelines within game engines. ICVR then designed and deployed a real-time and multi-studio pipeline for the teams with Perforce Helix Core as its foundation.

How to Set Up Your Helix DAM Jira Integration

Learn how to set up the integration between Helix DAM and Jira in this step-by-step tutorial. Jase Lindgren, a solutions engineer at Perforce Software, walks you through the process of creating a webhook in Helix DAM to enable a seamless integration with Jira. From there, you'll gain an understanding of how to link to Jira issues, add comments, update a status, and more. By integrating Helix DAM and Jira, you can streamline your workflows, enhance collaboration, and keep all your project assets and related information in sync.

Mission to Mars: Building NASA's Digital Twin with Helix Core and Unreal Engine

Did you know that digital twins – built with the help of Perforce Helix Core and Unreal Engine – help propel astronauts to space? In this webinar, Ryan Maffesoli, Senior Solutions engineer at Perforce, Greg Porter, Senior Systems Architect at Sev1Tech, and Marc Aubanel, Director of Digital Media Arts & Engineering at LSU, explore this exciting process.

Build Games Like Gearbox: Developing a CI/CD Pipeline with Helix Core & JetBrains TeamCity

Curious how Gearbox Software, the AAA game studio behind hit games like Borderlands and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, builds their games? In this webinar, learn how Gearbox 🛠️ Want to Build Like Gearbox? Get Started with Perforce Helix Core Accelerate development with the version control system 19/20 top AAAs like Gearbox rely on: Perforce Helix Core.

The Top 10 Version Control Tools

It is essential that developers keep track of their code changes, particularly when you have numerous developers making alterations to the same codebase. By incorporating a version control tool into your organization you can ensure that you follow and manage any changes to your source code and keep historic versions preserved.

How to Add a Storage Volume to a DigitalOcean Helix Core Droplet

In this video, learn how to add an extra storage volume as well as automatic backups to your Digital Ocean Perforce image. Check out the other videos in the Perforce Helix Core Admin’s Guide playlist for tutorials on other basic admin operations you will use when administering your Helix core server. About Helix Core: Perforce Helix Core is the leading version control system for teams who need to accelerate innovation at scale. Store and track changes to all your digital assets, from source code to binary to IPs.

Helix Core Introduces S3 Storage Support

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud and search for ways to reduce costs, Perforce has released Helix Core 2023.2 – giving users the ability to connect their archive depots to S3-backed (or S3-compatible) cloud object storage. S3 storage support offers users a durable and convenient solution that grows automatically and indefinitely. In the following article I explain S3 storage, diving into the benefits of using S3 storage, and how to get started using S3 Storage within Helix Core.