#source-control | Unreal Source | Page 39

robust jacinth Nov 20, 2018, 3:40 PM

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No doubt Perforce has one.

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You could also use UGS and simplify everything down to a nice UI.

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See Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealGameSync\Deployment.txt

long mural Nov 20, 2018, 3:42 PM

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so my depot needs to be a Stream depot

robust jacinth Nov 20, 2018, 3:42 PM

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Not for UGS to work.

long mural Nov 20, 2018, 3:46 PM

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and it works fine with the engine being included?

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i have my project under my engine directory

faint cairn Nov 20, 2018, 8:31 PM

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Anyone with Perforce knowledge an idea how I can properly renew the certificate of my Perforce Server?

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It's p4d -Gc, but it wants the P4SSLDIR environment variable set

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And I have 0 idea to what

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On my digital ocean (ubuntu) droplet, I found an ssl folder with both certificate files and I used that one with my perforce user

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But it keeps telling me: P4SSLDIR not defined or does not reference a valid directory.

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-.- I hate this piece of software.

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I can see it being defined and I also made sure there is no last /

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afaik, the folder should only have 700 rights or so. But well.

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Sorry to ping you @burnt shadow but did you ever have to renew a perforce server certificate and needed to define the P4SSLDIR var?

burnt shadow Nov 20, 2018, 8:57 PM

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Woah

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No

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I mean I've had to do corporate perforce license file renewals but those arent the same

faint cairn Nov 20, 2018, 8:59 PM

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Yeah I tripple checked what Perforce says in the docs:

User who owns the p4d process is the only one to use the ssl folder. (700)
privatekey.txt and certificate.txt files in there, both proper rights (600)
P4SSLDIR set to that folder, excluding the last /

:/ So frustrating..

faint cairn Nov 20, 2018, 9:23 PM

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Killed p4d process. Started again with -p 1666

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No users anymore. Logged into p4admin -> gained super user rights

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Ha, gotta love perforce.

long mural Nov 21, 2018, 2:56 AM

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anyone got a good ue4 .p4ignore?

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for engine source, so i dont upload thirdparty binaries etc

molten marsh Nov 21, 2018, 3:04 AM

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Theres one in the Engine/Extras/Perforce folder

long mural Nov 21, 2018, 3:09 AM

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yeah but that one doesnt filter out the Thirdparty stuff

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installed via setup.bat

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i just ignored Engine/Content and Engine/Binaries/ThirdParty/**.dll

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which reduces the size by loads and they get added via setup.bat

long mural Nov 21, 2018, 4:32 PM

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how do i build a binary editor for distribution to people without needing to compile it?

smoky trench Nov 21, 2018, 6:13 PM

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BuildGraph + InstalledBuild Script
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Programming/Deployment/UsinganInstalledBuild
(Tutorial if you need it)
http://jackknobel.com/BuildGraph/Building-an-installed-ue4/

long mural Nov 21, 2018, 11:13 PM

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thanks @smoky trench !

fickle roost Nov 23, 2018, 10:28 AM

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hey there, are there any perforce for real dummies guide ?
or would someone be willing to help with setting up in exchange for my skills ? 😃
environment art, could help out someone if needed in exchange for help with setting up perforce
MichalArendtLast Tuesday at 12:39 AM
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Michał Arendt

Environment Artist / Open for work

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reposting 😮

teal totem Nov 23, 2018, 9:47 PM

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@fickle roost Hey I can totally help you setup your own Perforce

slow gust Nov 24, 2018, 11:43 PM

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dang, I've forgotten if I need to setup a Depot for a new project or if one gets created automatically. I'm stuck on how to map to a fresh project when the depot doesn't exist (yet)

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ah answer - create a new depot in admin.

earnest snow Nov 27, 2018, 1:34 AM

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Looking for some help with git-lfs.

My friends and I are working on a game, and one of us is getting this error when they try to pull.

external filter git-lfs smudge %f failed```
And...
```git-lfs smudge 'Content/FPSBois/UI/Images/BloodHUD.usasset': git-lfs: command not found```
Our googling is failing us and we are new to git-lfs. Does anyone have any experience that they could help us track down the issue?

clear gull Nov 27, 2018, 1:15 PM

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@thick marten Hey Mathew! I followed up your tuto on SourceControl using Git (SourceTree)
I was wondering if you could possibly share how I can cleanly migrate ue4 versions of project and still keep the versioning fine. I have it setup for 4.20 and now moving to 4.21 but not sure whats the best way to add it to source control. (sorry if its a bit of a noob question)

thick marten Nov 27, 2018, 3:11 PM

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@clear gull should not really be much of an issue. It's the core engine that changes for the most part and your project files are just pointing / versioned for that version. If you were to commit at 4.20 for example , then open your project and upgrade it in place to 4.21, then commit you should have a new commit that runs on 4.21. This is what I do for my main example repo and no issues so far. With that said if you want to be safe the .git and such are all local to the project so you could copy the project to a new folder, upgrade that one (without touching your original), make sure it's all good and you are happy with it, then replace the original contents with the upgraded files. or if you don't want to replace just rename the older folder that your sourcectree is pointing to and rename the "updated" version to what the old project was and it should commit fine. Pretty much with source control you are safe to roll back if you commit at good points which is why it is used.

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how you upgrade is basically up to how safe you want to be when you upgrade and the ability to roll back if needed. you should be able to roll back to previous project engine versions which if needed but I have never tried it (never thought to do it to test lol) but now I have something to test at work later 😃

clear gull Nov 27, 2018, 4:54 PM

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@thick marten Ah yeah that makes sense! thanks alot . I actually changed my mind and wait till 4.21 gets hotfixes as it's not useable yet
but overall I guess it would be a good followup for that tuto as almost every1 face that eventually 😃

thick marten Nov 27, 2018, 5:42 PM

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welp I just tested and no real issues. upgraded in place my project to 4.21 and did some stuff then was able to push it back to a 4.20 version without issue. About the only issues is if you do a roll back some files won't get deleted if you added them after assuming you just do a roll back. Simply recloning the project back to a certain commit works great 😃

lavish osprey Nov 29, 2018, 7:30 PM

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hi i'm trying to push my commit but it doesn't work. i tried everything i found on the first page on Google and nothing worked. any help?

$ git push origin master
Enumerating objects: 75, done.
Counting objects: 100% (70/70), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (23/23), done.
Writing objects: 100% (24/24), 215.55 MiB | 227.79 MiB/s, done.
Total 24 (delta 15), reused 0 (delta 0)
efatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
rror: RPC failed; HTTP 413 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 413
Everything up-to-date

fiery prism Nov 29, 2018, 7:32 PM

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push smaller commits

lavish osprey Nov 29, 2018, 7:36 PM

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are ~10 lines across 4 files too big of a commit to push?

dusk dove Nov 29, 2018, 7:38 PM

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it seems to be pushing 215MB tho

lavish osprey Nov 29, 2018, 7:39 PM

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even in that case it should be able to. the limit in apache is set to 50 gigs

dusk dove Nov 29, 2018, 7:39 PM

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ye no clue why it would fail

jolly fog Nov 29, 2018, 7:40 PM

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Can you guys help me?

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pls

dusk dove Nov 29, 2018, 7:40 PM

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maybe, you haven't asked a question yet

jolly fog Nov 29, 2018, 7:40 PM

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Well i have 11 Weeks to make a Game and i wanna make a Game like Mirrors Edge but the problem is that i am new to Unreal Engine

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...

dusk dove Nov 29, 2018, 7:41 PM

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lol

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good luck 👍

lavish osprey Nov 29, 2018, 7:41 PM

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are you for real

jolly fog Nov 29, 2018, 7:41 PM

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how can i learn make/create Animations,Houeses,Characters?

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is blueprint better then simple code or?

robust jacinth Nov 30, 2018, 8:34 PM

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@jolly fog You need to learn some basics for the overwhelmingly massive quantity of learning resources available on the internet for all of the questions you're asking.

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Woops, wrong channel. Just saw the question, but it's the same questions being asked in #ue4-general now.

cerulean whale Dec 1, 2018, 4:49 PM

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That feel when you've made a new engine build...

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📎 unknown.png

desert willow Dec 1, 2018, 9:10 PM

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anyone familiar with svn Tortoise - lets say i have almost 200 revisions what happens if iwas to click merge?

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my brain tells me "hey i think this is it, we can stop tracking these last 200 revisions and say this is the new trunk." but i double thats it

cerulean whale Dec 2, 2018, 1:56 AM

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try it? 😃

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I don't know SVN

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but in general the idea of source control is to maintain revision history

pine mica Dec 3, 2018, 3:12 PM

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Hey guys, I'm having issues pushing my repo. Im using GitHub Desktop. Im getting this error:
9.22 MiB/s, done. Total 16905 (delta 600), reused 16757 (delta 535) fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly error: RPC failed; curl 55 Send failure: Connection was aborted Everything up-to-date

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I havent had any issues with it before now

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Only did a few changes since the last push

brittle raft Dec 3, 2018, 3:27 PM

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@pine mica Sure you'r enot over their size limit ?

pine mica Dec 3, 2018, 3:37 PM

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I'm not sure what the max size is. I'm paying for the developer plan.

brittle raft Dec 3, 2018, 3:40 PM

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IIRC, GitHub has a hard 1GB cap for the repository size (not the total files size), not counting LFS files that are in the separate plan

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If that's it, you should have a warning on GitHub

pine mica Dec 4, 2018, 2:42 AM

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I don't have any errors on the main GitHub site. The wired thing is that I have only changed some very small files since the last push. I've now deleted several GB of unused audio files and I'm still getting the error. I have tried creating a completely new repo as well and uploading the project to that. The entire project (unzipped) is 10.5GB

📎 GitError.PNG

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Pretty sure all my other Git projects are well over 1GB?

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Yes I have projects thats (unzipped) over 14GB working perfectly fine

brittle raft Dec 4, 2018, 7:21 AM

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And you're using Github desktop ??

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Make sure you're using SSH, rather than HTTP

solar ether Dec 4, 2018, 9:45 PM

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I am wondering for team setup cross the country what would be the best way to set up updating the builds?

molten marsh Dec 4, 2018, 9:46 PM

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What do you mean builds?

solar ether Dec 4, 2018, 9:47 PM

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having a repository of some type for updating and having other team members work in different areas?

solar ether Dec 5, 2018, 11:51 PM

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oh nice. I am in talks with them right now. Can I set up a computer as a server to host the repository on it?

spare surge Dec 6, 2018, 11:42 PM

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git with UE4 drives me nuts sometimes

molten marsh Dec 6, 2018, 11:51 PM

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Use Perforce then

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:24 AM

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isn't it expensive? I looked at the website for it but found it very confusing and they seem to be promoting a git product they have?

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maybe I'm looking at the wrong place though shrug

molten marsh Dec 7, 2018, 1:25 AM

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They have a free tier of 5 users that they dont directly advertise.

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:26 AM

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I do remember reading that in Perforce you can set individual files to only retain the most recent version (or like most 3 recent) of that file. AFAIK this is something git lfs still lacks and with like gitlab or github they don't yet offer a way to remove even completely unlinked files so repositories can get big with no way to clean them other than starting a new one.

molten marsh Dec 7, 2018, 1:27 AM

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How big is your team?

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:31 AM

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It varies. For our current arch viz project its under 5 but for our current game project varies between 2 and 10 people. 5 users limit might be ok as long as those users can change - that one is kind of a revshare slash volunteer project so the team makeup fluctuates. Which of their products should I be looking at?

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HelixCore?

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oh the free one requires self hosting

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😕

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(does perforce even have perforce-hosted services?)

molten marsh Dec 7, 2018, 1:35 AM

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They have partnered with a company called Assembla, they are horrible though from most accounts ive heard, you could look at them and see if they better fit your needs.

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There is no "easy" Source Control solution unfortunately.

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They all have their pros and cons

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:38 AM

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yeah. I used to CVS, then SVN and then git for a while now. Man CVS was a pain in the behind lol

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Assembla pricing is definitely too high for us right now - I guess we are sticking with git for a while 😃

dusk dove Dec 7, 2018, 1:43 AM

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just have people share users, you can make up to 20 workspaces without buying one of their ridiculous expensive licenses

molten marsh Dec 7, 2018, 1:45 AM

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Thats another option, but he has a hosting issue as well

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:45 AM

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I tried using Git LFS with UE4 recently using the 3rd party plugin and have mixed feeling about it. It seems to slow down the workflow for just working on a file because of all these modal git lfs status popups when you open and close files and it was pretty error prone with locking and unlocking, I kept having to open the command line and manually unlock files

dusk dove Dec 7, 2018, 1:45 AM

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meh just dump it on a $10 vps and it works fine

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p4 server doesn't have high requirements

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:45 AM

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that's not a bad idea - sharing users and using a vps

dusk dove Dec 7, 2018, 1:46 AM

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it somewhat is a bad idea since those people need to share the password then

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:46 AM

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does the UE4 perforce integration have similar issues to the git lfs one I described above? or is it smoother?

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It also makes it hard to track down who changed a piece of code. But in some cases that might be ok

dusk dove Dec 7, 2018, 1:47 AM

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p4 tracks changes by workspace name, so you can easily identify them still

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ye the plugin is way faster

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it can request locks for several files at once, for example, instead of painfully waiting 5 seconds per request like the git plugin

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git plugin is unusable slow with locks enabled

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:50 AM

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something I've noticed with git lfs (and maybe non lfs git) when using UE4 - I bring on a new team member and they clone the repo. Before they edit anything like some random assortment of .uasset files are reporting being changed so now they have to do a commit that didn't even change anything - and there seems to be no rhyme or reason behind the group of assets that are reporting having been changed

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so there are all these kind of extra commits where nothing actually changed by the developer. Sometimes it happens to just after checking out a commit that contains new assets, but its less common/noticable than the first checkout

dusk dove Dec 7, 2018, 1:52 AM

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that seems very strange, are they using the correct engine version?

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assets don't magically change without someone resaving them

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:53 AM

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yes I've even seen it happen on the same pc

dusk dove Dec 7, 2018, 1:53 AM

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weird, never had this happen using git or p4

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:54 AM

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I don't know if it hapens with non-lfs git, but definately it happens on lfs git for me

dusk dove Dec 7, 2018, 1:56 AM

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but if assets get changed for no reason, definitely wouldn't check in those changes

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who knows what happened there and you can't check because bullshit binary file

spare surge Dec 7, 2018, 1:57 AM

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I've tried just discarding the changes but then it just makes them again

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I have no idea

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its really weird

vivid scaffold Dec 7, 2018, 10:12 AM

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I need a perforce tutorial on how to add an existing project on a new computer

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I don't understand why I need a workspace outside of the Unreal folder, which just doubles the amount of space my project consumes

vivid scaffold Dec 7, 2018, 11:07 AM

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great, managed to synch, but ended up with /MyProjectName/streamsDepot/mainline/MyProjectName/ inside of the Unreal Projects folder 😦

vivid scaffold Dec 7, 2018, 1:25 PM

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and now I get a metric tonne of "files not open for edit" when I try to check in NEW files. 😱

vivid scaffold Dec 7, 2018, 8:15 PM

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ugh, more perforce problems.... "shared data cache not in use, performance impacted" all of a sudden

vivid scaffold Dec 7, 2018, 9:07 PM

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and apparently by following youtube tutorials, the "intermediate" folder got source controlled, which means that a lot of cache files that Unreal creates and removes creates havoc with Perforce.... but I can

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t remove them from the workspace, because they're apparently open

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this isn't made for normal people 😦

dusk dove Dec 7, 2018, 9:39 PM

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upgrade helix-p4d package

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it doesn't start anymore

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oof

smoky trench Dec 7, 2018, 9:45 PM

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Did you upgrade the database?

dusk dove Dec 7, 2018, 9:51 PM

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I didn't, it helps when you read the docs 🤔

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it worked after I did that

tranquil walrus Dec 10, 2018, 12:10 PM

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anyone know how to sort this out? Some code I wanted to stick on my github. I created the repo and made a .gitignore by mistake, so sourcetree would never let me push. i tracked my changes locally as you can see, but I wanted to actually get this remote? I tried a merge on that first commit but that fails, any idea how to sort that out?

📎 sourcetree1.png

river tinsel Dec 11, 2018, 9:39 PM

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it's third day i'm trying to setup Plastic SCM repo -;-

haughty ember Dec 11, 2018, 9:59 PM

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3rd?

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Only takes a few hours

river tinsel Dec 11, 2018, 10:24 PM

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i've been trying to gitsync unreal repo

spare surge Dec 12, 2018, 12:26 AM

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i never heard of plastic scm looks kind of cool going just by their marketing

jolly fog Dec 13, 2018, 8:39 AM

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hello there how do i setup a Collab with my team on unreal engine

storm violet Dec 13, 2018, 10:23 AM

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hey

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Pushing to https://github.com/HereafterMills/ToolboxVR.git Uploading LFS objects: 100% (2/2), 256 MB | 0 B/s Uploading LFS objects: 100% (2/2), 256 MB | 0 B/s, done POST git-receive-pack (chunked) remote: warning: File Content/VR_GoExpansion/cargoVR_BuiltData.uasset is 79.21 MB; this is larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50.00 MB remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com. remote: error: Trace: caa43ad191cf458033e665e480e0cbcd remote: error: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information. remote: error: File Content/Movies/vr task.mp4 is 165.21 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB To https://github.com/HereafterMills/ToolboxVR.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/HereafterMills/ToolboxVR.git'

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i'm not able to push the code to a new repository i created

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can anyone tell what's wrong happened here ? I've also added the files through LFS and they are uploading as well and the process is successful. What's getting wrong here ?

smoky trench Dec 13, 2018, 6:11 PM

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you haven't setup uassets and mp4 files to be stored in LFS @storm violet

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the file size limit for github IIRC is only for non-LFS files

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If they were files already in your repo you will need to move them over to the LFS storage

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https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Tutorial#user-content-adding-git-lfs-to-a-pre-existing-repo

haughty ember Dec 13, 2018, 7:03 PM

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First thing done wrong was using LFS over Perforce 😉

brittle smelt Dec 14, 2018, 12:40 PM

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@thorny barn basically three options, SVN (free and easy), Perforce (Powerful, Free for 5 users but requires some setup), Plastic SCM (Paid but simple)

thorny barn Dec 14, 2018, 12:41 PM

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I'll check them out in that order, thanks!

clear gull Dec 15, 2018, 11:44 AM

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guys what's the best budget cloud storage for GIT ? bitbucket gives 10 GB max but it's not a good solution for ue4 projects that can easily escalate over that limit ...

brittle raft Dec 15, 2018, 11:44 AM

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Paid Github with LFS, I guess

clear gull Dec 15, 2018, 11:46 AM

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@brittle raft Thanks I'll check the pricing

clear gull Dec 15, 2018, 12:06 PM

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Ok I get it now ... It's 7 dollars/month for the github + 5 dollars/month for 50 gb of data pack

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12 dollars per months seems fine

burnt scarab Dec 15, 2018, 1:46 PM

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how / where to add .ignore list to perforce? just paste a .ignore.txt in to depot root?

dusk dove Dec 15, 2018, 2:08 PM

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make a file .p4ignore in the root, then every client needs to run p4 set P4IGNORE=.p4ignore after setting up the workspace because it's too dumb to find it by itself

burnt scarab Dec 15, 2018, 2:22 PM

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thank you @dusk dove that's so appreciated i can't tell you ❤

noble knoll Dec 15, 2018, 4:07 PM

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@clear gull i bloated LFS to 50 gb on a 6 gb project in a week

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just so you keep in mind that sizes can bloat extremelly hard with ue4 on LFS

clear gull Dec 15, 2018, 4:14 PM

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@noble knoll good to know I'll be careful... just wondering now that I uploaded my 6 gb project why it still says I haven't used my bandwidth .... maybe it updates less frequently ?

noble knoll Dec 15, 2018, 4:16 PM

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the issue is that ue4 works like absolute ass with LFS

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if there is like a "pathologically horrible way of using LFS", UE4 is that

clear gull Dec 15, 2018, 4:16 PM

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oops

noble knoll Dec 15, 2018, 4:34 PM

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the issue is that LFS is a hack

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on top of git

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like a plugin/extension

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so it needs to intercept normal git stuff, and change it to lfs stuff

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it intercepts a commit and then if the files are LFS tracked it sends them to the LFS server.

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the problem is that current LFS servers dont do binary deltas at all

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and another huge problem is that LFS scales badly with number of files, as it needs to "intercept" each one individually

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in unreal engine, EVERYTHING is binary

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so if you have a medium sized project, LFS will just choke

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too many files

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not even going into the file size issue, with the LFS server gets more and more bloated

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and then, to top it off, LFS also stores everything locally

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so you need to have 2 times the size of your repo

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and do "lfs prune" every time you commit

errant estuary Dec 15, 2018, 8:44 PM

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Any perforce users here?

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I’d really appreciate advice on how to update my depot once I complete a migration. When I went from 18 to 19 I blew it away and started fresh but my depot is fairly large and I’m assuming that is the most inefficient way to handle it

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I know migrating touches almost every uobject file the project and any plugins I updated .... is there is good way to handle this or is starting fresh best?

errant estuary Dec 16, 2018, 9:34 PM

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Ty mike

hasty ridge Dec 20, 2018, 8:06 PM

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anybody have issues with stuff in your .gitignore not being respected? like I have this in my .gitignore file: Intermediate/*

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and that worked initially, but on my next commit these files came back and it seems like that line is just being ignored now (along with a few others)

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        modified:   Intermediate/Build/Win64/PongEditor/DependencyCache.bin
        modified:   Intermediate/Build/Win64/PongEditor/Development/HotReloadMakefile.ubt
        modified:   Intermediate/Build/Win64/PongEditor/Development/PongEditor.uhtmanifest
        modified:   Intermediate/Build/Win64/PongEditor/FlatCPPIncludes.bin
        modified:   Intermediate/Build/Win64/UE4Editor/Inc/Pong/Pong.init.gen.cpp
        modified:   Intermediate/Build/Win64/UE4Editor/Inc/Pong/Timestamp
        modified:   Intermediate/ProjectFiles/Pong.vcxproj
        modified:   Intermediate/ProjectFiles/Pong.vcxproj.filters```

hasty ridge Dec 20, 2018, 8:57 PM

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figured it out, I had a whitelist regex in my .gitignore as well for something unrelated that was matching those paths

river tinsel Dec 20, 2018, 9:03 PM

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ok been using Plastic SCM for some time now

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git sync is not capable of handling UE4 sized git repo

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but

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other than that it is really lighting fast

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compared to either Perforce

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or Git

dusk dove Dec 22, 2018, 5:28 AM

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why does attempting to launch 2 blueprint / other asset diffs from p4v at the same time result in the second printing an error?

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📎 unknown.png

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it works again right away after closing the first window

upbeat talon Dec 24, 2018, 8:07 PM

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How blueprint diff works? Is it useful?

spare surge Dec 31, 2018, 2:33 AM

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Recently we started having an issue where after doing a git pull a seemingly random selection of materials will have all black textures. Doing a reimport on them fixes it - then we push and the next person does a pull then some of their textures are black they reimport and push and now some of my textures are black again

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any ideas?

agile kayak Dec 31, 2018, 7:10 AM

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question, just set up perforce, but my buddy can't open the project without checking out the .uproject file

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anyone know a solution/

molten marsh Dec 31, 2018, 8:32 AM

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You should have setup the recommended TypeMap and .p4ignore files before committing your project.

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You can mark the uproject as Writeable in Workspace by right clicking on it in perforce and going to the ChangeFiletype option.

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There you will find a checkbox that enables the file to be writeable as by default perforce forces all files in the depot to be Readonly which requires a checkout in order to modify that file.

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@agile kayak

agile kayak Dec 31, 2018, 8:34 AM

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awesome, thanks!

agile kayak Jan 1, 2019, 1:02 AM

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K so, back at it again with the perforce problems.

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Anyone know what this error means?

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Client 'Aaron_DESKTOP-6-----0_8550' can only be used from host 'DESKTOP-6-----0

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The error happens in p4v

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its still not letting my buddy check out or submit modified files

dusk dove Jan 1, 2019, 1:07 AM

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it means you're trying to use a workspace on a pc with a different name than the one it was created on/for

agile kayak Jan 1, 2019, 1:15 AM

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Hmmm so the solution would be to rename the workspace?

molten marsh Jan 1, 2019, 1:15 AM

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You have a few options.

dusk dove Jan 1, 2019, 1:16 AM

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just make a new workspace and call it a day

molten marsh Jan 1, 2019, 1:16 AM

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Rename the PC to the name P4 is requesting (not recommended). Change the name in the workspace, or as suggested, make a new workspace.

river orchid Jan 1, 2019, 1:16 AM

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Is there any free version control service?

molten marsh Jan 1, 2019, 1:17 AM

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P4 is free for up to 5 users, though you will have to find a hosting solution, either host it yourself or find a service that does that for you.

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GitHub is free obviously however it has its own set of issues when working with UE4

river orchid Jan 1, 2019, 1:18 AM

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Is there any online hosting solution available, or is it possible to use web storage to store and share?

agile kayak Jan 1, 2019, 1:18 AM

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Thanks guys

molten marsh Jan 1, 2019, 1:18 AM

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@river orchid Online hosting is typically not free.

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Assembla is a Perforce provider that supplies everything you need, however it is quite expensive and ive heard, very limited in scope (or at least extremely difficult to deal with).

river orchid Jan 1, 2019, 1:19 AM

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what about PlasticSCM?

molten marsh Jan 1, 2019, 1:20 AM

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Ive never worked with that, cant comment on what it offers nor its abilities as a Source Control solution.

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Dont think it even has a UE4 plugin? Though i could be wrong.

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Im strongly biased towards Perforce as ive been using it for years.

river orchid Jan 1, 2019, 1:20 AM

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does github or bitbucket work with blueprints sharing?

molten marsh Jan 1, 2019, 1:22 AM

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Github is better suited to source code. Handling assets on Github from my understanding is thwart with issues that can be tedious to work around.

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Not sure about Bitbucket.

river orchid Jan 1, 2019, 1:23 AM

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so in other words I'll have to have to host it on my system...

molten marsh Jan 1, 2019, 1:23 AM

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That is an option yes.

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For example. I have my personal Perforce depot running on a Build Server machine i keep in my Garage.

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It can be expensive to run if your running a machine 24/7 to ensure uptime. But if you only turn it on when you are working on something and then power it down when your done then it can be a viable solution for many.

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Its expensive because of running costs (electricity).

river orchid Jan 1, 2019, 1:25 AM

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true

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I guess I'll go with that solution

molten marsh Jan 1, 2019, 1:25 AM

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I work from home so i can get a tax rebate from the government on my Electricity costs so i can manage that way.

river orchid Jan 1, 2019, 1:27 AM

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hahahaha damn u r lucky xD

dusk dove Jan 1, 2019, 11:57 PM

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is it possible/sensible to have the project folder in the engine folder, but with the engine using git and the project using perforce?

molten marsh Jan 2, 2019, 12:04 AM

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What would this achieve exactly?

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Why do you want to have the Project inside the Engine folder?

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I mean, i cant see a reason why it wouldnt work. So long as you ignore the Project folder on Git and Perforce is only mapped to the Project folder, sure. I guess.

dusk dove Jan 2, 2019, 12:21 AM

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I'm not entirely sure what this would achieve, but I see many people have this kind of setup

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when using a custom engine

iron flame Jan 2, 2019, 3:38 AM

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I would recommend Perforce running on a local machine. I do not keep my server up 24/7, only when I am working. I also backup the server files (once a week) onto attached hard drive.

dry citrus Jan 2, 2019, 11:42 AM

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anyone able to tell which amazon AWS free tier would be best for perforce source control purpose ?

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S3 seems like a way to go

nimble epoch Jan 2, 2019, 2:11 PM

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Not sure if this falls under source-control, but I have a little problem.

Need to send some material instances over to another PC, but both of these PCs are not using any kind of version control (don't ask), and it's not available on them.

Both PCs have "master" material (actually, both have the same project), I just need to transfer over a couple of mat instances. And objects as well, but assigning those instances is pretty straight forward so it's not a biggie.

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:48 PM

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@languid escarp

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hey

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how do you deal with git lfs uploading duplicate files

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:48 PM

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hey

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:48 PM

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its very bad

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:48 PM

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it doesn't

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not that I'm aware of

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:49 PM

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i had it uploading hundreds of duplicate files

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;-;

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:49 PM

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beats me

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:49 PM

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It might be cuz your server is local

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So it's not as much of a pain for you

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:49 PM

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I've been running this setup for over a year now, never had any issues with it

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 3:50 PM

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yea

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:50 PM

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How big is one version of your project?

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 3:50 PM

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is SVN a thing still?

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:50 PM

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And how big is the total repo?

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:50 PM

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lfs is 80gb, regular is 0.5gb

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:50 PM

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my project is over 80 gigs

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i think

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:50 PM

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So you have 500MB of assets right?

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:50 PM

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regular == text

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:50 PM

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Ah

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How big is your project folder?

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:51 PM

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well, whatever git crams into the "regular" folder :)

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:51 PM

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Ignoring the older versions etc

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:52 PM

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project folder's not that big - that 80gb I mentioned houses lots of maya files, substance, etc.

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everything that's binary, not just ue4 content

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project is about 3gb atm

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:52 PM

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Ok I'm confused 😄

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What I'd like to know it the current project size / total git repo size ratio

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 3:53 PM

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the size of the project in git

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:53 PM

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ie the overhead of the versioning

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:53 PM

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u know

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git add .

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takes like 4 hours

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to add all my files

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:53 PM

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lol

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using lfs?

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:53 PM

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uh

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i think so?

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 3:54 PM

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have you looked into svn meowmeow?

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:54 PM

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i did:
git lfs track "*.uasset"

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SVN requires a custom server

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I want a cloud solution

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 3:54 PM

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a free cloud solution?

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:54 PM

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ideally

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I don't want to spend more than $10 a month

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:55 PM

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Uh

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 3:55 PM

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and you want 100gb

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:55 PM

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yep

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A 2 TB HDD is like $100

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lol

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 3:55 PM

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but you don't want to host yourself right?

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:55 PM

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these are shared hard drives

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everything in the cloud is shared

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:55 PM

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That's not how cloud costs work

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 3:56 PM

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^^^

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:56 PM

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You need to take into account data duplication for safety, bandwidth cost, server maintenance

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etc

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:56 PM

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cloud is overpriced if you think about it lol

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:56 PM

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Not really

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:56 PM

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things like amazon cloud

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:56 PM

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I have no clue how to tell you the size of git lfs that's specific to my ue4 project files

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:56 PM

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they charge u per minute, but in reality, the hard disk is never changing

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but they charge u for data

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:56 PM

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the thing is, lfs dumps everything from all projects in to one root I believe

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:57 PM

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Oh you have multiple projects

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:57 PM

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and my local git server doesn't really report on the space used by project X for its lfs contents

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:57 PM

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nvm then 😉

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:57 PM

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yeah, sorry

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:57 PM

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how do u know if git lfs is working

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:57 PM

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Are you removing old versions sometimes?

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:57 PM

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when u do a git add?

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:57 PM

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lfs clean or smthg

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:57 PM

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git lfs prune

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that's what I use, haven't removed older versions yet, though it's planned

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tbh w/ 1TB of onedrive I don't really care too much just yet :)

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:58 PM

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Oh right

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How much is that?

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Included in some other plan?

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:58 PM

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it's the office 365 family plan

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 3:58 PM

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👌

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 3:58 PM

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I also have a business gmail account that gives me 1tb or some such there too

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so I have double backups

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 3:59 PM

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meowmeow i've looked at many svn, git providers and you wont be able to get 100gb at 10 per month

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 3:59 PM

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Is SVN even good?

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I use to use it years ago

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But I never used it for something like an unreal project

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 4:00 PM

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its the same as its been

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 4:00 PM

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Is it capable of handling large files?

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 4:00 PM

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I used it with hl2 and unity3d projects lots before

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 4:00 PM

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where can I get a good SVN cloud host

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with that?

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 4:01 PM

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https://beanstalkapp.com/

Beanstalk – A complete workflow to write, review & deploy code

Beanstalk is the complete code hosting workflow teams or individuals use to write, review and deploy their code.

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 4:01 PM

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wew

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 4:01 PM

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why don't you just get 1tb of onedrive and 1tb of google drive and do what I do? office w/ onedrive is around $60 a year, g suite business is like $8 per month but it's not even necessary

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 4:01 PM

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Thats so expensive

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$200 a month, for 60 gigs of storage

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 4:02 PM

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i just looked at 15 other sites and thats not unreasonable

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 4:02 PM

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that's like the cost of a car payment

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for a brand new toyota camry

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lol

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 4:02 PM

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yea thats life though

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 4:03 PM

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I did my research wrt version control and hosting, by far the onedrive solution is the cheapest

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 4:03 PM

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like you'd save a lot by j ust running it yourself, or just using git for only c++ and running lfs yourself

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 4:03 PM

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idk man

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If you look at the 100 GB version

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it goes up to like $300 a month

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at that point

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i could buy a tesla model 3

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 4:04 PM

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lol i don't think we are on the same planet

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 4:04 PM

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car payments

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not straight up lol

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 4:05 PM

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Just use a local server

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 4:05 PM

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can onedrive be used inconjunction with lfs @languid escarp ?

static snow Jan 2, 2019, 4:05 PM

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i have run an svn on a cheap hetzner, it works, but console administration of a svn repo is a pain. For example, if you run out of space you need to get hacky with deleting things manually, there are no commands to just delete old revision afaict. Idk if there are GUId up svn administration tools nowadays, it was a while ago

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 4:06 PM

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@neon tulip what I do is have my git server write the repos to my onedrive folder. everything's in there - lfs, regular, etc.

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they're just files

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 4:07 PM

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So dirty 😛

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But if it works 🤷

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 4:07 PM

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for solo indie game dev it does

static snow Jan 2, 2019, 4:07 PM

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you can get 80gb of disk space for 9 euros a month on hetzner

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 4:07 PM

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ah?

static snow Jan 2, 2019, 4:08 PM

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https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

Truly thrifty cloud hosting - Hetzner Online GmbH

Cloud servers starting at € 2.49. A little money gets you lots of cloud. Our flexible billing model and clever interface make it easy to use our cloud servers for all your IT needs.

neon tulip Jan 2, 2019, 4:08 PM

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that is a creative way glassbeaver 😄

static snow Jan 2, 2019, 4:08 PM

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its all manual and if you forget to keep updated or misconfigure you will get hacked immediately, but it is the cheapest way i know to run an svn

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 4:09 PM

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btw, if you're just looking for space, you can give time4vps a shot

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it's like 6 eur for 1TB

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4 eur for 0.5TB

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etc.

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https://www.time4vps.eu/storage-vps/

Time4VPS

Time4VPS - Storage VPS - VPS Hosting in Europe

Affordable Storage VPS in Europe data center located in Lithuania, Vilnius. SSD storage, latest Intel Xeon CPU's offers best performance for less.

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I don't think I've found anyone cheaper

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used to have a server there for a while

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 4:10 PM

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rofl

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📎 unknown.png

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(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

dusk dove Jan 2, 2019, 4:10 PM

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that seems too cheap

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something must be wrong with the storage

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 4:11 PM

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it's in lithuania

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I think

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 4:11 PM

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No backups

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And might be HDDs as well

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 4:11 PM

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honestly who cares if your only concern is money? :)

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 4:11 PM

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True

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 4:11 PM

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https://www.time4vps.eu/container-vps/

Time4VPS

Time4VPS - Container VPS - VPS Hosting in Europe

Affordable OpenVZ VPS in Europe data center located in Lithuania, Vilnius. SSD storage, latest Intel Xeon CPU's offers best performance for less.

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these come w/ backups but they're more expensive

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anyways, do your research, the hosting landscape may have changed and there might be some even better options out there

analog burrow Jan 2, 2019, 4:13 PM

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Or really just use local storage

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

languid escarp Jan 2, 2019, 4:13 PM

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yeah I don't think anything beats that for one-man operations

jolly fog Jan 2, 2019, 5:05 PM

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@languid escarp whats that

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it looks really good

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lmao

vivid scaffold Jan 3, 2019, 12:18 PM

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great, perforce ignores a bunch of newly added folders marked for new

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grr

reef solar Jan 4, 2019, 2:37 AM

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can anyone send me the perforce linux26armel p4d/p4 files for running Perforce on raspberry pi?

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Perforce took these files down from their servers and they don't help you if you don't have a support contract with them

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@noble knoll how did you get perforce running on raspberry pi? I have a 3 B+ and can't find the files I need

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the links in their guides are dead; the FTP ones

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should I try OVA Git fusion?

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does the Linux versions of p4d/p4 only work in ubuntu (core?), not raspbian? is that what I'm doing wrong

small tundra Jan 4, 2019, 3:13 AM

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@burnt shadow Hey mate, did you ever try P4 on Ubuntu 18?

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I remember we talked ages ago and I ended up installing it on ubuntu 16 for some reason.

dusk dove Jan 4, 2019, 3:15 AM

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do they offer packages for 18 yet?

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oh nice seems like they finally added them

small tundra Jan 4, 2019, 3:53 AM

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That could be it then

slow cedar Jan 4, 2019, 8:21 AM

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@analog burrow homeserver > all

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well that said my homeserver is a tad slow since its running on HDDs

analog burrow Jan 4, 2019, 8:53 AM

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hehe

noble knoll Jan 4, 2019, 5:16 PM

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@reef solar i followed Allars guide, but with a raspberry

reef solar Jan 4, 2019, 5:40 PM

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ok so Ubuntu

river tinsel Jan 7, 2019, 7:42 AM

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as long as you don't need remote access home server is ok ; p

slow cedar Jan 7, 2019, 7:50 AM

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@river tinsel just get a dyndns setup ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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and fiber

river tinsel Jan 7, 2019, 7:58 AM

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and static ip

slow cedar Jan 7, 2019, 7:58 AM

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nah

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if you have a dyndns setup you dont need a static ip

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thats what I'm doing

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with noip

noble knoll Jan 7, 2019, 7:10 PM

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and an VPN

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you are probably not going to be able to secure that server

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so might as well just firewall every single port except a VPN port

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and then you connect to the server through VPN

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thats what i do

dusk dove Jan 7, 2019, 7:27 PM

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p4 isn't safe by itself?

smoky trench Jan 7, 2019, 8:53 PM

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I just opened a port in the router's firewall and directed it to the P4 instance which has SSL enabled, not sure how "secure" that is but it works ¯_(ツ)_/¯

dusk dove Jan 7, 2019, 8:56 PM

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make sure you set the option to disallow listing or creating users in p4

smoky trench Jan 7, 2019, 9:05 PM

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yeah of course, admin privileges only

dusk dove Jan 7, 2019, 9:05 PM

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(why on earth is that the default??)

smoky trench Jan 7, 2019, 9:06 PM

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makes it easier for first timers

dusk dove Jan 7, 2019, 9:07 PM

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makes it easy to setup a vulnerable server you mean

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the first user becoming admin makes sense, after that it should absolutely not be possible to create new users by default

smoky trench Jan 7, 2019, 9:08 PM

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How many studios with their first time setting up P4 would immediately be making it publicly accessible? Most would keep it internal until deemed necessary/have the knowledge too (in my opinion anyway)

clear gull Jan 7, 2019, 10:06 PM

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https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

The GitHub Blog

New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and ...

Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers.

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Does it mean we can save 5 bucks monthly and keep using the Free one ?! only pay for the data pack ?

jolly fog Jan 8, 2019, 1:01 PM

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https://i.imgur.com/RBk9gjn.png

Imgur

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how long until done?

jolly fog Jan 8, 2019, 1:18 PM

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it been 12 hours

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i sleep, come back, it still go

chilly island Jan 8, 2019, 2:02 PM

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@jolly fog you host your own svn on a digital ocean server? it's linux right?

jolly fog Jan 8, 2019, 2:03 PM

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@chilly island yeah

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i dont know why it go so slow though

neon tulip Jan 8, 2019, 2:03 PM

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is it free or something?

jolly fog Jan 8, 2019, 2:04 PM

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paid

chilly island Jan 8, 2019, 2:04 PM

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maybe run sudo top and see if it shows more processes

jolly fog Jan 8, 2019, 2:04 PM

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apache2 is us ing the most

chilly island Jan 8, 2019, 2:04 PM

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does svn run a daemon on the server at all? i'm assuming it does

jolly fog Jan 8, 2019, 2:04 PM

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it uses apache

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lol

neon tulip Jan 8, 2019, 2:05 PM

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is it like they just give you ssh or something?

jolly fog Jan 8, 2019, 2:05 PM

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who?

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digital ocean?

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im surprised u have never heard of them

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they are a big comapny

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https://i.imgur.com/32OPccM.png

Imgur

chilly island Jan 8, 2019, 2:06 PM

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maybe try iotop, you'll have to install it and see if it's a disk speed issue

jolly fog Jan 8, 2019, 2:07 PM

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how do i use it

chilly island Jan 8, 2019, 2:07 PM

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https://superuser.com/questions/556427/is-there-top-for-disk-usage

Super User

Is there `top` for disk usage

How to track disk usage (write/read and other cool stuff) in realtime with fashion of top in the only right system in shell?

It would be cool if it could monitor specific directory.

neon tulip Jan 8, 2019, 2:07 PM

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i've used amazon ec2 before, was just curious if they give you ssh or something so you maybe could try a different svn server or something

buoyant shale Jan 8, 2019, 6:42 PM

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hey guys , i bring you good news :
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Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers.

white ocean Jan 8, 2019, 6:50 PM

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Does Digital Ocean have servers in EU?

dense turret Jan 8, 2019, 8:57 PM

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Yes. I keep my SVN server in Germany.

inner swift Jan 9, 2019, 3:44 AM

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Github doing that feels alittle too late tbh. already moved to gitlab. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ornate trout Jan 9, 2019, 6:57 AM

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ok guys I've got a pretty nooby question, I have git and I pay for github, but I am having an issue with UE4 and github

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what I'm trying to do is A.. have an online backup of my project and code that is up to date, and B. collaborate between my laptop and other people

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but my issue lies with not understanding how to get past the file size issue

brittle raft Jan 9, 2019, 7:44 AM

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What's the file size issue ?

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 8:20 AM

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LFS (Large File Storage)

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Github has a built in size limit of 100 mb per file

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You can also solve a lot of it by having a good Gitignore that ignore all the buildfiles, this means that when you are collaboraing they will need to build shaders and stuff again when they get your update but definately worth doing

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if you are working together at the same time I would suggest switching to perforce since it has the check out files funciton so that you dont get the issues where people are working on the same files at the same time which gives you errors to resolve in github which is a pain

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LFS is a addon to Github, just google it and you'll find the sollution

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I can share my git ignore when I am back in the office

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@ornate trout

ornate trout Jan 9, 2019, 4:07 PM

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Sharing your ignore would be very much appreciated, and does perforce have an online storage thing also?

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@balmy sparrow

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:13 PM

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I have a question!

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:13 PM

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I've only used perforce with an on location server

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But found this

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:13 PM

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If we have files marked for delete in Perforce, is there a way to see those files in the content browser?

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failing that, is there a way to filter contents of a changelist by file names?

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:14 PM

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https://www.assembla.com/pricing?affiliate=acroitor

Source Code Management Pricing & Tiered Plans | Assembla

Find the right solution for your cloud version control needs with our tiered source code management pricing plans. Learn more to compare our Assembla plans.

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Perforce has the tags both in unreal content browser and in the file hierarchy, deleted files are marked with X

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Uncompiled files are marked with?

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:15 PM

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only if they're deleted in UE4

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is they're marked for delete in Perforce they don't show up in the content browser at all it seems

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:15 PM

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Ye they won't, but you can allways look at your file history in the client

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:15 PM

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unless that means they're no longer on disk 🤔

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well, there's 8500 files in this changelist

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we want to filter some of them back out 😦

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(fml)

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:16 PM

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Best practice if you've broken something is to revert back and create a separate branch

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:16 PM

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nothing's broken, nothing's been committed

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we want to not have a number of files marked for delete not committed at the same time

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so we need to filter them out of the changelist

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and since there are 8500 files, manually isn't really an option

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:17 PM

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You can right click the files inside unreal and tell them to be ignored

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:18 PM

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I can't see them inside Unreal

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:18 PM

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Or are you talking about build files and stuff you don't need?

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:18 PM

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these are uassets

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:19 PM

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Hmm strange. So you can see them in the windows folder but not inside unreal?

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:20 PM

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it's not on my machine, but I've just verified that they are not on disk

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so they're just sat, marked for delete in a monolithic perforce changelist

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I hate sorting out problems caused by people months ago who don't even work here any more 😦

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:21 PM

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Haven't heard of that one before, because the usual suspect with missing files is that you are using an older version of unreal than the last commit and files are missing because of that

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:22 PM

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nah, looks like marking for delete in Perforce removes the file from disk

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makes a certain amount of sense

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:22 PM

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Ye but you should be able to revert to get them back

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:22 PM

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yes

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that is what I am going to do

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:22 PM

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And then make a new branch and combine that with the current branch

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Like I said earlier

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:22 PM

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but I want to filter out those files

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I need a way of filtering the contents of that changelist

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also, no branches, there are something like 200 people using this repo, lol

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:23 PM

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Probably a way to do it in script, search stack overflow they have all answers

summer lantern Jan 9, 2019, 4:23 PM

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ouch

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thanks anyway -_-

balmy sparrow Jan 9, 2019, 4:23 PM

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Np

ornate trout Jan 10, 2019, 4:28 AM

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@balmy sparrow what is your ignore file?

balmy sparrow Jan 10, 2019, 8:11 AM

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DerivedDataCache
Intermediate
Saved
.vs
*.sdf
Build/
Binaries

ornate trout Jan 10, 2019, 4:13 PM

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Thanks

wooden brook Jan 10, 2019, 10:22 PM

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Is this where I would ask about VS issues?

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(physx vehicles, header file questions)

brittle raft Jan 10, 2019, 10:22 PM

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No, #cpp

wooden brook Jan 10, 2019, 10:23 PM

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thank you

ornate trout Jan 11, 2019, 4:11 AM

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lmfao "source control. haha I see the confusion"

surreal yarrow Jan 11, 2019, 5:55 AM

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Does anyone here use source control for a project they are the only dev on?

ornate trout Jan 11, 2019, 6:16 AM

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yes

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@surreal yarrow

brittle raft Jan 11, 2019, 7:26 AM

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Yes

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Source control is a must

surreal yarrow Jan 11, 2019, 7:54 AM

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Is it just for backups @ornate trout @brittle raft?

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What are the other advantages if not?

brittle raft Jan 11, 2019, 7:55 AM

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Complete history of every change over months or years

surreal yarrow Jan 11, 2019, 7:57 AM

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Does it allow you to revert back to a previous build? I installed perforce for my last project but didn't fully understand the capabilities

brittle raft Jan 11, 2019, 7:57 AM

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You can revert anything to any previous state

surreal yarrow Jan 11, 2019, 7:58 AM

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alright thanks for the info

ornate trout Jan 11, 2019, 2:47 PM

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It's modtly for having on offsite backup, but its also for the teanwork capabilites as I use my laptop often on the go, and finally the ability to revert is nice

long mural Jan 12, 2019, 7:28 PM

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wrote a little webhook bot for perforce commits to discord

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https://github.com/KaosSpectrum/DiscordWebhookBot

GitHub

KaosSpectrum/DiscordWebhookBot

Contribute to KaosSpectrum/DiscordWebhookBot development by creating an account on GitHub.

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if anyone is interested

timber creek Jan 14, 2019, 12:14 AM

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Anyone know why gitbash would suddenly go "fatal: authentication failed" after not doing a thing with it for a month or two?

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I've litteraly tried everything and theres no way i get it up and running again..

timber creek Jan 14, 2019, 10:58 AM

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Seems like re-initializing the project solves it. deleting some minor progress and re-clone it.

austere parcel Jan 14, 2019, 4:45 PM

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Hey all! I've been looking at some different options for source control, and I was wondering what is the best option for people who haven't used source control before?

blissful moon Jan 15, 2019, 11:33 AM

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Question does anyone here use Helix4Git? I was wondering if it's possible to git init a folder inside a perforce stream.. suppose I want to git a only c++ folder and then peforce the root of that folder is this possible?

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this way i can have git functionality for a c++ only folder inside a perforce repo

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im hoping to be able to check in check out etc for perforce files assets but use git for c++ files only

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seems like its not possible but let me know if anyone has a solution for this

shut rain Jan 15, 2019, 2:42 PM

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I'm having some massive problems with UE4 maps and Github/LFS. In my project there's one map that keeps giving the error "umap appears to be an asset file" whenever I've pulled github changes. When opening the umap file in a text editor, it seems to just download the LFS pointer instead of the actual map as stored in LFS? Very weird though since all other maps (and all other files) in the project work just fine. Anyone else have this problem, or know of a fix?

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This is what the map file looks like in a text editor

📎 unknown.png

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Whereas other maps that do work look like this in a text editor

📎 unknown.png

brittle raft Jan 15, 2019, 3:12 PM

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@shut rain That's a conflict here.

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Look in your source control software to check the status

shut rain Jan 15, 2019, 3:13 PM

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No conflicts shown, and I can push the map just fine after replacing it with the working map again, and it'll even show fine in Github until I pull again and it once again gives me that file (no warning about a conflict during push/pull though)

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Noone is even pushing a different version or working in that map anymore, just keeps doing this

brittle raft Jan 15, 2019, 3:15 PM

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Okay, but the <<<<<<< ======= >>>>>>> markers in Git specifically mean there is a conflict in the file that needs to be resolved

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If you have that in your committed file it means someone ignored the conflict and pushed anyway

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Unless LFS uses this for something completely unrelated that I am not aware of

shut rain Jan 15, 2019, 3:16 PM

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No that would be the most logical conclusion

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It's weird though cause to fix it I literally manually download the working map from github (the website) manually and replace the file in the folder, then I can push without problem, no conflicts shown, but next pull I get that stupid conflict file again

brittle raft Jan 15, 2019, 3:17 PM

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Which Git client do you use ?

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I looked it up and this is 100% a conflict on a LFS file

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A pointer file looks like that version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 oid sha256:4cac19622fc3ada9c0fdeadb33f88f367b541f38b89102a3f1261ac81fd5bcb5 size 84977953
so your file is 100% a conflicted pointer file

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Now the question is why it's conflicted

shut rain Jan 15, 2019, 3:20 PM

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I'm just using Git shell

brittle raft Jan 15, 2019, 3:21 PM

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What does "git status" tell in command line ?

shut rain Jan 15, 2019, 3:23 PM

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On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

        modified:   Saved/AutoScreenshot.png

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

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This is after just having pushed the fixed map file

brittle raft Jan 15, 2019, 3:24 PM

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To be clear, if you save locally and then pull changes, it's expected to end up with a conflict

fallen jay Jan 16, 2019, 3:18 PM

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Is anyone using Git LFS for a big project (~30GB)? We were trying to use Plastic and it totally broke down for us (was fine for a ~1GB repo). Using Perforce just seems like a huge pain to get set up, as Assembla is super expensive, self hosting has tons of issues, and setting up hosting involves a whole extra bag of issues

dusk dove Jan 16, 2019, 3:33 PM

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perforce will handle that with zero issues

fallen jay Jan 16, 2019, 3:58 PM

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I know that perforce works - it's just the hosting is an issue. Wondering if Git would work, since the hosting is significantly simpler/cheaper

smoky trench Jan 16, 2019, 7:23 PM

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@fallen jay We were using it but are moving away from git now. Too many issues that plagued us, with git in general but particularly with LFS. LFS itself whilst an improvement is barely functional and we constantly ran into issues with pointers breaking, conflict issues (LFS supports locking but it doesn't auto unlock files when submitting so it's much more manually involved) and on disc file size (developers having to run gc/purge to clean up disk space, this was because we are using source version of the engine and push binaries so artists don't have to compile).

Might be asking, but they sound like small things? One off occurrences sure, but when all developers (both non technical and technical) are struggling to use the provided source control and on the daily running into issues with LFS it's counter productive.

Not to mention with our CI system compiling and submitting binaries after code changes we constantly ran into issues when trying to submit the artifacts when it didn't have latest and thus fail to push. (This might be remedied in a clean way but from various ways I tried it just kept doing more harm then good).
Note: This isn't an issue with LFS but with Git itself.

fallen jay Jan 16, 2019, 7:30 PM

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Thanks for such a thorough response. Are you switching to Perforce then? It seems like the Perforce hosting situation is quite DIY

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I'm surprised so many people seem to have setup perforce, but my guess is that many are self hosting? The tutorial about how to set it up on aws seemed like it was deliberately confusing

smoky trench Jan 16, 2019, 7:33 PM

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Would LOVE to go to perforce but we're switching to plastic purely due to cost and we've, thankfully, had no issues so far.

Personally and for a previous studio I ran we self-hosted onsite. Fairly straightforward to do and far more cost effective (have a build machine anyway so might as well stick it on that)

fallen jay Jan 16, 2019, 7:34 PM

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Interesting. The fact that you're on site seems handy. The projects I'm working on are distributed teams

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We've had a lot of issues with plastic due to corrupted files

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Also a general lack of clarity about what's going on in the UI, ie when you press undo changes it seems to be doing far more stuff than it should be, not nearly as quick as say git checkout .. uodate workspace also seems to continuously re download files

smoky trench Jan 16, 2019, 8:10 PM

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If you got the bandwidth you can certainly provide access to the rest of the teams. Additionally the other teams, particularly if they are grouped together in some capacity, could use P4 Cache servers to improve general P4 operation times

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Hmm interesting, thanks for the heads up @fallen jay

fallen jay Jan 16, 2019, 8:13 PM

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Would you mind letting me know if you hit issues with plastic?

austere parcel Jan 16, 2019, 8:15 PM

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How can a collaborator in git push changes?

fallen jay Jan 16, 2019, 8:21 PM

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Git push

smoky trench Jan 16, 2019, 10:19 PM

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@fallen jay Will do!

fallen jay Jan 16, 2019, 10:20 PM

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thanks!

small adder Jan 17, 2019, 2:05 PM

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Anyone use SVN?

queen plume Jan 18, 2019, 8:27 AM

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i used to

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maybe i can be of assistance

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it has been many years though.

long mural Jan 18, 2019, 4:58 PM

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loves perforce, i have a VPS i pay 10 GBP a month for, with my own perforce install and it works like a charm :)

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1TB of storage aswell

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its not stupidly fast SSD but it works

fallen jay Jan 18, 2019, 7:10 PM

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That's pretty cheap for so much storage. I actually just switched my project over to p4, hosted on GCP using the $300 credit 1 year trial

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Seems like the cpu/mem req's are quite low

molten marsh Jan 18, 2019, 8:46 PM

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P4lyf

river orchid Jan 19, 2019, 10:00 AM

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Can webservers be used for version control with perforce?

willow crescent Jan 19, 2019, 2:19 PM

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Anyone here use Perforce?

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@river orchid Yes, we're using Vultr, works great.

river orchid Jan 19, 2019, 2:27 PM

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Which one of these @willow crescent

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willow crescent Jan 19, 2019, 2:32 PM

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@river orchid The first one

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I'm not the one handling the billing but even though you pay per usage (from what I remember), we use it a lot, move large files and only pay like $20 a month

river orchid Jan 19, 2019, 2:39 PM

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wow that's awesome

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Pretty cheap

south plover Jan 19, 2019, 9:30 PM

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Do i have to put the plugins folder also on the depot? Using perforce^^

molten marsh Jan 19, 2019, 9:30 PM

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@south plover Its probably a good idea.

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If they contain source code that you may want to modify later.

south plover Jan 19, 2019, 9:31 PM

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ok, thank you 😃

safe sky Jan 20, 2019, 1:14 PM

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ehm guys is this normal?

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https://i.imgur.com/IoI7EXZ.png

Imgur

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iam on an internal network with 1 gbit link, dafuq

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normal speed is like 30MiB, just tested it without git lfs works just fine

south plover Jan 20, 2019, 2:51 PM

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when i want to populate the depot with files, perforce gives me an error "No files to submit".. and behind the lines "files not in client view"... any tips?

north coral Jan 20, 2019, 3:39 PM

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Yo guys, out of curiosity, what SCM do you all use for your projects?

A. Perforce
B. Git
C. SVN
D. Mercurial
E. Other

fluid vapor Jan 20, 2019, 4:07 PM

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Usually, this discussion pivots around Perforce and Git LFS (large file storage), because Perforce for many is a standard in the game industry and Git is free.... But, now I will ask my question: "Why aren't people discussing the source control integrated in UE ?"

fiery prism Jan 20, 2019, 4:10 PM

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its an interface to one of the existing sc

south plover Jan 20, 2019, 4:10 PM

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i thought you have to use other source control software, the editor has just an interface.. ?

fiery prism Jan 20, 2019, 4:11 PM

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Or do you mean uh...

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unreal game sync?

brittle raft Jan 20, 2019, 4:12 PM

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Yeah, pretty sure there isn't an UE source control

fluid vapor Jan 20, 2019, 4:14 PM

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there is. I am sure it works for managing the assets and the level itself, but I am not sure if there is one such for the code.
Here is a link towards the Unreal documentation regarding this topic:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Basics/SourceControl/InEditor

brittle raft Jan 20, 2019, 4:15 PM

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It's just an interface

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Source control is way outside the scope of a game engine

fluid vapor Jan 20, 2019, 4:16 PM

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sooo, something like Perforce or Git must be used for sure. Is that what you are saying ?

brittle raft Jan 20, 2019, 4:16 PM

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Yeah, UE doesn't have source control, just easy hooks into the most common ones

fluid vapor Jan 20, 2019, 4:17 PM

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Which one would you recommend ?

brittle raft Jan 20, 2019, 4:17 PM

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Well, as you pointed out, there are basically two teams here

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Mostly if you're on a large project with lots of art, there isn't much going around Perforce

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I think Git is invaluable for experienced programmers, and Git LFS is fine for small projects, so I'm on team Git

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Some people say fuck it, let's use SVN for assets since it's a bit similar to Perforce

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Basically there isn't a great VCS for games, so whatever you like works

dusk dove Jan 20, 2019, 4:20 PM

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perforce also does crazy stuff like letting you use a git client for code stored in p4

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but I've no idea how that works

south plover Jan 20, 2019, 4:23 PM

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or just not work at all... still don't know why i get - files not in client view - error, i know its probably my fault..

dusk dove Jan 20, 2019, 4:24 PM

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when do you get that?

south plover Jan 20, 2019, 4:25 PM

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after creating the first workspace and choosing files for initial add to the depot

dusk dove Jan 20, 2019, 4:25 PM

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did you try to add files outside the workspace?

south plover Jan 20, 2019, 4:26 PM

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yeah, i think i did that at the first try.. then i deleted the workspace and made a new one, but then adding doesnt work also

dusk dove Jan 20, 2019, 4:27 PM

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when I set up our depot I just made a blank depot and workspace, then moved all the project files in, and submitted 1 changelist that adds all the files

south plover Jan 20, 2019, 4:28 PM

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did you move them outside of the p4v client?

dusk dove Jan 20, 2019, 4:29 PM

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yeah

south plover Jan 20, 2019, 4:29 PM

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ok, i'll try that

north coral Jan 20, 2019, 6:27 PM

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Am I the only one who prefers SVN over Git for small-team game dev?

fiery prism Jan 20, 2019, 6:52 PM

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with binary assets?

north coral Jan 20, 2019, 7:11 PM

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yea

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SVN handles them much better IMO

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obv nowhere near as well as Perforce

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but Perforce is kinda annoying for small teams with no budget, since requires constant server connection

fiery prism Jan 20, 2019, 7:12 PM

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Yeah so with bin assets I'd go SVN over Git

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prolly still go P4

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I'll have to try LFS but iunno.

north coral Jan 20, 2019, 7:12 PM

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blech

fluid vapor Jan 20, 2019, 7:22 PM

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Ok ahhmmm.. Can anyone make a list with all the pros and cons of the most used VCS with Unreal ( because I sure can not) or give a link? I mean, obviously this topic is constantly being discussed by many and... probably there is a good overview of all these VCSs compared to one another. May be this would be a better idea instead of "shooting in the dark" hoping that we will "hit" the right answer.
Can anyone provide such resource ?

molten marsh Jan 20, 2019, 8:27 PM

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Perforce is the best for UE4 no question. Lol

brittle raft Jan 20, 2019, 8:28 PM

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It's the best for handling content

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Having source code under Git and commit only binaries to the Perforce repo works fine, too

north coral Jan 20, 2019, 9:41 PM

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@fluid vapor https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/480/version-control-for-game-development-issues-and-solutions this is a good thread on it

Game Development Stack Exchange

Version control for game development - issues and solutions?

There are a lot of version control systems available, including open-source ones such as Subversion, Git, and Mercurial, plus commercial ones such as Perforce.

How well do they support the proces...

fluid vapor Jan 20, 2019, 10:09 PM

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10q 😃

haughty ember Jan 21, 2019, 6:35 PM

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Ehh... So, has anyone ever seen or heard about UE4 automatically committing stuff through Perforce (AFAIK, it's only Perforce since that's what I ever use through UE4 plugin). Also, this has only happened in 4.21. (I'll scrub through release notes just in case I missed something)

The auto commits will either say Added '_PathNameToObject_' to collection 'DevName' for single objects

or

Added _n_ objects to collection 'whatever' then lists the object path names

I'm going to scrub through the logs on both sides, but was curious, this is some random behavior that I've never seen before.

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Hm, looks like someone else had this happen: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/763335/can-i-manually-commit-shared-collections.html

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K, looks like there's just a possibility that I've just never had shared collections before so I wouldn't have noticed this. But, can't find anything telling me why it's doing it automatically. /shrug

robust jacinth Jan 22, 2019, 7:15 AM

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That does appear to be normal for shared collections, @haughty ember .

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I've experienced it before, coworker recently was also confused about how it was that he automatically submitted stuff he wasn't familiar with.

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🤷 I know little else about it, but it is "normal" and "behaving as expected".

fiery prism Jan 22, 2019, 7:16 AM

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I actually think there's a setting for it

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but I don't remember if its in the project settings, editor prefs, or somewhere in a right click menu

robust jacinth Jan 22, 2019, 7:24 AM

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You officially know more than I do. 👍

fiery prism Jan 22, 2019, 7:46 AM

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decided to check and I appear to be wrong (as of the 4.20 release) so Iunno.

vivid scaffold Jan 22, 2019, 12:23 PM

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anyone know how to "force" Perforce to transfer a file from depot to workspace? In on a new PC and about 100 out of 5000 files simply don't get added to my workspace, and if I chose "get latest" on a file in the depot explicitly, it just says 0 files downloaded

sharp fable Jan 22, 2019, 2:21 PM

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In regards to the cost of perforce, this is how to do it super cheaply for a team of 1-5

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for starters, perforce is free up to five people, so that's settled

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in terms of hosting, get a amazon ec2 instance, 30gb of capacity is fine for my team at the moment, get it setup with ubuntu command line

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set up perforce on it, and the server itself with 5 people and lots of heavy usage with large files being committed/changed often is only costing me $9-ish usd a month

south plover Jan 22, 2019, 6:16 PM

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ok, this is now the second evening i'm trying to get my files from my workspace to the depot.. i don't know what i am doing wrong here...it would be really great if someone could help me out here via screen share...

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still getting the "files are not in client view" error...

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I'd be happy to send 20 EUR via paypal to the one who can help me^^ i need that stuff to be working, don't want to waste more time...

sharp fable Jan 22, 2019, 7:50 PM

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@south plover ```
Go to Connection > Edit Current Workspace > Expand the Workspace Mappings field to display the Depot Tree.
Right-click on the name of the Depot Tree that you want to "Include" in mappings.
Click Apply, click Get Latest to sync the files.

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have you tried this

south plover Jan 22, 2019, 7:53 PM

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did it right now, get this errors - no files updated
1 warning reported
//depot/...#head - no such file(s).

sharp fable Jan 22, 2019, 7:57 PM

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@south plover go to your windows cmd in admin mode

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and i cant remember off the top of my head (not on pc) type p4 info

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you may have to go to the workspace folder for that to work

south plover Jan 22, 2019, 7:58 PM

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it works, i see the info

sharp fable Jan 22, 2019, 7:59 PM

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ok does the path regarding your workspace match the path that the files you're trying to move are stored in

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wait that may not display the workspace path

south plover Jan 22, 2019, 8:01 PM

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yeah, its not there

sharp fable Jan 22, 2019, 8:02 PM

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hmm so wait what are you trying to do

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are you trying to get files from workspace to depot or vice versa

south plover Jan 22, 2019, 8:02 PM

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from workspace to depot

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maybe it would be easier if i can show you^^

sharp fable Jan 22, 2019, 8:03 PM

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so when you mark for add thats when it breaks, correct?

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cant screen share atm, but you can screen share

south plover Jan 22, 2019, 8:03 PM

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yes, i'll call you

sharp fable Jan 22, 2019, 8:03 PM

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i have no mic but ok

south plover Jan 22, 2019, 8:28 PM

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Thanks to Dosbuster it works fine now 👍 😃

long mural Jan 23, 2019, 4:55 AM

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is it possible to split the Engine and Project in Perforce?

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even though the project is rooted under the Engine?

sharp fable Jan 23, 2019, 5:23 AM

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huh? projects and engine source are separate?

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@long mural can you screenshot what you mean

long mural Jan 23, 2019, 5:23 AM

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https://gyazo.com/1570c7cbb9421673c8fedf0e83a63602

Gyazo

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so i have this

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layout

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Theia being my project

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i havent commited to source control yet, i have perforce all setup ready to go for this project, but this is the first project im using a Source build engine

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basically i want to be able to have 2 types of streams, one for Programmers and one for Artists, and artists don't care about building and should have the built binaries, and be able to just launch the editor

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but i dont want to commit so much to perforce that is not needed. IE programmers dont get the pre-compiled binaries, they only go to the Artists build

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if that makes sense

sharp fable Jan 23, 2019, 6:32 AM

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@long mural im confused your project doesnt need to be in the engine folder?

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you can just move it out of that folder to another place in the workspace

boreal lake Jan 23, 2019, 7:20 PM

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anybody using GIT ?

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https://github.com/mikicompany

GitHub

mikicompany - Overview

Video Game Artist . mikicompany has 15 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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haven't submitted anything in a while but I'm down for collaborations

brave orbit Jan 24, 2019, 10:01 PM

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Hi everyone, I just wanted to ask you guys if anyone is familliar with managing UE4 projects and uploding them to GitHub and using git system with them in general...Since one of my projects is taking over 7 GBs of space and similar complexity project I downloaded from github is only 200MB (from which then I generated Visual Studio files by right clicking it and selecting that option) that got me confused about a way to upload UE4 projects to GitHub....if anyone could be kind enough to bother and explain me how it is done or at least link some forum thread (since I couldnt find any) I would be very thankful...

sharp fable Jan 24, 2019, 10:19 PM

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@brave orbit well, for one pregen files in ue4 take a lot of space

brave orbit Jan 24, 2019, 10:22 PM

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@sharp fable I see. I am still in the entry level of knowledge regarding UE4 and coding with C++ so pardon my lack of knowledge...would you maybe know how to prepare the project files for uploading to GitHub

sharp fable Jan 24, 2019, 10:26 PM

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google gitignore

tired mango Jan 25, 2019, 11:01 PM

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hey guys i just realized something AWESOME

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I bought a $50 1TB harddrive (external) usb 3.0 (d:) .... and so then what I did was I made a new folder in it (git_project_folder) and ran 'git init' , then in my local machine in my project folder i did 'git remote set-url origin D:/git_project_folder '

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then I made a .bat file with just 'git push origin master' in it , in my local project folder

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so now when i double click that bat file, it pushes my code changes to my external backup drive

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AND bonus: I can build and deploy off of my external drive files (backup) while I continue to work on my local project files and make edits

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so now it takes way less time to do backups and i can work on my game while i do test deployments w visual studio

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(also please for the love of god backup your game on an external drive at least)

fleet anvil Jan 26, 2019, 5:18 AM

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I'm using this gitignore https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/UnrealEngine.gitignore

If I want to ignore the StarterContent folder, would I just add "StarterContent/*" ?

GitHub

github/gitignore

A collection of useful .gitignore templates. Contribute to github/gitignore development by creating an account on GitHub.

vague compass Jan 26, 2019, 5:48 AM

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that doesn't make sense, either delete it or add it

sharp fable Jan 26, 2019, 7:12 AM

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I highly recommend you do not use github for ue4 if working with more than one person

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you will get merge conflicts often

indigo relic Jan 26, 2019, 9:53 AM

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hello, does anyone know a solution to perforce files disappearing in the content browser?

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]when they are checked out they do not appear in the content browser but are in the content directory

jolly fog Jan 26, 2019, 4:24 PM

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whats the best recommendation for a free source control solution for small teams (<5 ) but large repos (<50 GB) right now?

dusk dove Jan 26, 2019, 4:26 PM

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self hosted perforce

jolly fog Jan 26, 2019, 4:27 PM

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is it complicated to set up the self-hosting esp. when you got dynamically public IP adresses (and have a narrow upstream bandwith?)

fleet anvil Jan 27, 2019, 1:17 AM

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@sharp fable Thx for the warning. I'm working alone, so conflicts are a virtual non-issue.

hexed sandal Jan 27, 2019, 11:33 AM

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I saw that GitLab gives 10gb of LFS storage per project for free so I'm thinking of switching to it. Is there anything else one should think about when deciding on a version control?

river tinsel Jan 27, 2019, 3:28 PM

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LFS is going to be slow as fuck

hot musk Jan 28, 2019, 3:37 AM

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Whats better for source control? GIT or Perforce

molten marsh Jan 28, 2019, 3:39 AM

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Perforce overall IMO

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Git is good for Source Code but handles binaries really poorly .

fiery prism Jan 28, 2019, 3:41 AM

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I'd say if you're unfamiliar with either but plan to work with UE4, that even if you do not plan to version binary files that you should still opt for p4. Its so pervasive in the UE community that learning it would more directly help your UE4 journey.

tired mango Jan 29, 2019, 2:26 PM

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I finally set up a local git repo on my external HDD and I can easily push changes to it with 'git push origin master'

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It's a hundred times faster than manually copy and pasting the whole project folder since it's only sending changes now

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If I just make blueprint changes it takes literally 5 seconds to push the changes to my external backup drive now 😂

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Awesome

scenic ember Jan 29, 2019, 10:11 PM

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So I see PlasticSCM was created with the intent of making it easier for game developers to manage their source control. Has anyone tried using it? What has been their experience?

burnt shadow Jan 30, 2019, 1:17 AM

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Plastic is actually kinda dope

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I wouldnt recommend it in production for a big company or anything quite yet

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but if you're just getting into source control

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Plastic is probably a good solution

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just keep in mind most people don't use it and use Perforce instead

molten marsh Jan 30, 2019, 1:52 AM

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@burnt shadow Did you manage to get funding for your SC solution you wanted to build?

burnt shadow Jan 30, 2019, 2:55 AM

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No but I'm building it anyway

river tinsel Jan 30, 2019, 8:54 AM

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My only poblems with plastic were:

Usless ignore.conf which does not support gitignore syntax

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they claim Plastic can import Git repo

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well if it is small enough then maybe, it simply cannot handle repository of UE4 size.

gloomy lance Jan 31, 2019, 3:35 AM

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Does anyone know how to clean the swarm cache?

gloomy lance Jan 31, 2019, 4:11 AM

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How should I clean the appcache?

sour vine Feb 3, 2019, 2:40 AM

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im guessing that would simply mean delete everything within appcache folder.

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but before you do that, make a back up. i only answered because no one else did. @gloomy lance

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But I am not saying that I know enough about what youre talking about.

gloomy lance Feb 3, 2019, 2:41 AM

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@sour vine Thanks!

sour vine Feb 3, 2019, 2:43 AM

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Using Perforce, Has anyone experienced the static meshes created from BSPs within a workspace, only carrying the Element 0 material for the entire static mesh for other workspaces?

old gate Feb 4, 2019, 6:00 PM

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has anyone tried setting up Subversion server on a NAS to host UE4's projects repo?

jolly fog Feb 4, 2019, 11:16 PM

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Hey all, apologies if this has been asked before, but I'm looking to migrate away from GitLab due to our repo bumping up against the limits. I would like to host a Perforce server, but I'm unsure what options are best. It looks like you can host this on a cloud service. I'm hesitant on this front because I don't want to get hit with unpredictable charges. Is it possible to get a cheap host machine with a lot of disk space and host it using a normal hosting service?

sharp fable Feb 5, 2019, 12:47 AM

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@jolly fog I use amazon ec2 on a ubuntu image with 30gb of disk storage, at times for us the activity fluctuates, at one point we had 4 four people using it making large commits (art) and sometimes it's 1-3 people working on something, so far costs per month have not gone above $14 usd

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that being said, amazon aws is a very unintuitive thing to work with if you have no experience (like me) with any of this side of tech

jolly fog Feb 5, 2019, 12:57 AM

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Yeah, that's a concern as well. Time I'm spending managing version control related things is taking away from my development time, so I'm trying to investigate the least expensive in monetary & time investment

sharp fable Feb 5, 2019, 2:25 AM

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oh the time investment is small

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i havent had to do anything since setting up really

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once it's set up, it's sweet

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aside from occasionally running sudo apt-get update to make sure security is tight

jolly fog Feb 5, 2019, 2:29 AM

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Cool, I will investigate more there then

north coral Feb 5, 2019, 10:06 AM

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@old gate why yes I have 8D

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Not quite on a NAS, but on a separate computer that I use as a server

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I just use VisualSVN Server to host it

grave raven Feb 5, 2019, 10:07 AM

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in GIT, is it possible to update .uasset files every time you push to repo but not track any changes?

north coral Feb 5, 2019, 10:07 AM

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You could probably create a hook script for that^

grave raven Feb 5, 2019, 10:08 AM

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thanks i'll have a look at that

sharp fable Feb 5, 2019, 10:17 AM

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https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1092189153838678017

Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic)

Git is like every time you want to check in a new version you backup your entire repository into a directory full of all old versions and then replace the prior latest version with the new version but there's some file deduplication logic based on Merkle trees to save spac...

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grave raven Feb 5, 2019, 10:18 AM

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@north coral is that what GIT LFS does? update the files but doesn't track any changes?

north coral Feb 5, 2019, 10:18 AM

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I think so

dusk dove Feb 5, 2019, 10:21 AM

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git lfs stores a separate uncompressed copy of every version

grave raven Feb 5, 2019, 10:23 AM

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so it does the same thing as git but was introduced because git had problems with large binary files?

old gate Feb 5, 2019, 12:08 PM

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@north coral that I did too. But I'd like to do that on a NAS, since it's self contained and more energy efficient (and I don't have second computer)

north coral Feb 5, 2019, 12:13 PM

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Does the NAS run its own OS?

slow cedar Feb 5, 2019, 12:15 PM

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every nas has its own os

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else its just an external HDD :p

old gate Feb 5, 2019, 12:20 PM

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Yeah, it has OS

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I forgot what it was though.. Netgear NAS with 2 HDD slots for $200 from Amazon 🙂

north coral Feb 5, 2019, 12:29 PM

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Might wanna find out then eh

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(my guess is Linux)

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though it's probably a stripped version, so you'll want to host the VisualSVN Server application on your own PC

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Hmm...

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Not sure how this would work, honestly - you might be able to point its repository depot location to the NAS

old gate Feb 5, 2019, 2:33 PM

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ReadyNAS OS is what's on NETGEAR ReadyNAS RN212

jolly fog Feb 5, 2019, 5:04 PM

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Hello All :-)
I've been wondering about this: is it possible to use source control (subversion, specifically) to manage UE blueprint classes in a similar way as written code might be handled?
In other words: could I for example have a GameMode BP in the trunk, use that in a branch, then make changes to it in the branch, then modify the trunk version and merge those changes into the branch version whilst keeping the changes that were made in the branch?

dusk dove Feb 5, 2019, 5:35 PM

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no

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that would be too easy

jolly fog Feb 5, 2019, 5:37 PM

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Thank goodness, I was afraid I had been missing the whole point 😃

dusk dove Feb 5, 2019, 5:38 PM

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blueprints (and uasset in general) are unmergable

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that's why people use exclusive checkout in perforce

old gate Feb 5, 2019, 5:40 PM

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well, I treat BPs as art assets, so updated version will replace older on in the repo

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I don't think it's even possible to treat BPs as code unless BPs were stored as text and not as binary files

jolly fog Feb 5, 2019, 5:45 PM

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Thanks for your feedback on this.
But you do use source control in a way that you'd make an update to a BP in the trunk and then merge that modified BP into a branch in which you also want to use that new version, right? In other words: not migrate the new BP from the trunk working copy into the branch working copy using UE --> "migrate assets", but merge it into the branch using source control?
Assuming all relations of that BP to other assets are repaired by hand after the merge...?

dusk dove Feb 5, 2019, 5:47 PM

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we just don't use branches with content

jolly fog Feb 5, 2019, 5:48 PM

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Appologies, I don't understand. What do you mean with "content"?

dusk dove Feb 5, 2019, 5:48 PM

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all the assets in the content folder

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I'm sure there are people that do use them though

old gate Feb 5, 2019, 5:53 PM

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I mean, you can do branches and stuff with SVN and content, but why?!

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binary assets (BPs, textures, models, etc.) are not the same as C++ code

jolly fog Feb 5, 2019, 5:55 PM

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For example because I want to create a version of a UE project in which some BP functionality is different (branch) and I may want to work on that as time goes by, but I also want to keep the original version of the project as the main version (trunk) and continue working on that in a different direction.

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Does that make sense?

old gate Feb 5, 2019, 6:08 PM

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or have 3 repos - one with common assets, one for v1 of BP and last repo for v2 of BP. It'd s bit messy no matter how you do it.

jolly fog Feb 5, 2019, 6:12 PM

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And then the UE project would be made up of 2 checked out working copies:

common assets
v1 BP / v2 BP, whichever I currently want to use?

old gate Feb 5, 2019, 6:13 PM

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why not to just have 2 separate projects and make your life easier? 😃

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you would still have one repo for common assets

jolly fog Feb 5, 2019, 6:19 PM

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gotta run. Thanks for your input! I'll have a think about this.

brave orbit Feb 5, 2019, 10:14 PM

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Can someoen please tell me what should gitignore file look like so after I push my project my friend can DL that zip file and then generate Visual Studio files from that and open the project? I tried several and I get various errors, like not being able to generate VS files or not being able to build from UE file that you DL from GitHub

light mesa Feb 6, 2019, 6:40 PM

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Does anyone know what binaries are required for team members who don't have visual studio?

I was under the impression that only UE4Editor-ProjectNameHere.dll is required.

smoky trench Feb 6, 2019, 8:18 PM

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you will probably want the pdb's and the .modules file as well

fickle roost Feb 7, 2019, 6:05 PM

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if someone marks everything for delete

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and then deletes it from depot on p4v

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its possible to revert it right ?

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or just submit some other copy

light mesa Feb 7, 2019, 6:07 PM

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afaik, if it gets deleted from p4v depot, it's gone, you would have to submit a new copy of it.

fickle roost Feb 7, 2019, 6:08 PM

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so just copy some copied files manually in it

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and then submit ?

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will try to do that

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allright got it fixed by the way

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but scared me a lot

dusk dove Feb 7, 2019, 6:24 PM

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you could have just reverted the changelist that deleted the files

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unless you specifically marked the files for store single copy mode

fickle roost Feb 7, 2019, 6:56 PM

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its all good now

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i think we marked his files that were marked for delete

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as mark for add

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submitted and its all good now

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not really sure what we did

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tried revert as well but somehow didnt work, maybe it doesnt store it or something

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but its all good, did not lose the project 😛

gentle bay Feb 8, 2019, 4:03 AM

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does anyone use a local git server?

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i found bonobo but it doesnt support git-lfs

vague whale Feb 9, 2019, 12:31 PM

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git has been beta forever, is it worth connecting it now?

noble knoll Feb 9, 2019, 1:44 PM

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@gentle bay LFS works like absolute shit with unreal

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be warned

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anything other than a extremelly simple project with sub 100 blueprints/assets will bloat and eventually become unusable

gentle bay Feb 9, 2019, 1:46 PM

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Aww man

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What would you recommend

gentle bay Feb 9, 2019, 2:11 PM

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@vblanco I have such a project so I'm open to alternatives

fair canopy Feb 9, 2019, 4:30 PM

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@gentle bay i use an off line bare repo, but why don't you just use github, microsoft has made free accounts now are unlimited and privet.

glossy arrow Feb 9, 2019, 5:00 PM

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@burnt shadow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yzt4pKdaLA Not sure if you care, but that's been reuploaded

YouTube

Blake Mitchell

Setting up Perforce on DigitalOcean's Ubuntu

https://goo.gl/52pTh5 ⇐ Sign up and receive 10 dollars credit free on DO Setting up Perforce on DigitalOcean's Ubuntu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yzt4p...

▶ Play video

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Also, is there any up-to-date tutorials on how to that nowadays?

dusk dove Feb 9, 2019, 5:02 PM

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they offer packages now, so just follow the official guide and their setup script does everything for you https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/p4sag/Content/P4SAG/install.linux.packages.install.html

glossy arrow Feb 9, 2019, 5:13 PM

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Just got it working as well

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Thanks 😃

gentle bay Feb 10, 2019, 7:13 AM

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@fair canopy git LFS storage still costs money

fair canopy Feb 10, 2019, 8:35 AM

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@gentle bay my bad thought it was included.
as I said I use a bare repo held in OneDrive or Dropbox , use that as the remote master . and don't have any issue with larger files or bloat.
But I dont use the ue4 git tools I just use the git CMD to push and pull

gentle bay Feb 10, 2019, 8:37 AM

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ok, thanks

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maybe ill keep my project on dropbox, and plugins on github

noble knoll Feb 10, 2019, 11:57 AM

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@glossy arrow there is a docker container for perforce

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install docker

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run container

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done

dusk dove Feb 10, 2019, 12:00 PM

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it's not official tho

noble knoll Feb 10, 2019, 12:10 PM

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its by far the best way to setup stuff tho

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install docker, put perforce, openvpn, samba, and git

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its what i do myself

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if you have mistakes installing stuff and fuck it

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just nuke it from orbit

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and try again

jovial storm Feb 10, 2019, 12:56 PM

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Hi, i'm completely new to UE4 source control. Could I get some advice on what setup would be best for my situation? I am in different locations across the week and use different machines depending where I am for the day, but would like to work on the same one project throughout the week. Would it be best to just backup to a cloud for this or would it be better to use something like github/perforce?

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I'd like whatever options makes it the easiest to pick up where I left off seamlessly without having to redownload everything or something like that

rare kelp Feb 10, 2019, 9:23 PM

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Hey everyone, I currently preparing for a game jam on Thursday and I was wondering if I need to use source control if I am working alone on the project?

faint cairn Feb 10, 2019, 9:55 PM

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You should always use SourceControl

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Given you submit often, you can always roll back to a previous revision to save a broken asset.

rare kelp Feb 10, 2019, 10:11 PM

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Ok then, thanks for the advice.

jolly fog Feb 11, 2019, 4:14 PM

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Hi! I'm trying to set up SVN to work on a project with two people on different workstations. We got to the point where we can add or remove assets, and it will be updated correctly on the other pc when we sync.

But now the problem: When someone moves an asset to a different folder, it works as it should on that workstation. On the other workstation on the other hand, it is copied! So the asset is moved, but it is also still in its original location.

So basically on workstation 1 we end up with a moved asset, and on workstation 2 we get a copied asset.

Does anyone have a clue on what could cause this?

winged tiger Feb 11, 2019, 5:29 PM

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Anyone have recent perforce prices? Is it monthly or perpetual?

smoky trench Feb 11, 2019, 6:14 PM

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Yearly and it's USD $420 per user per year

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You can negotiate with them however

winged tiger Feb 11, 2019, 7:39 PM

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Thank you Jack

dusk dove Feb 12, 2019, 11:52 PM

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<@&213101288538374145>

molten marsh Feb 12, 2019, 11:54 PM

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Discord is being pretty annoying today 😦

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I banned him but the messages wont delete...

winged tiger Feb 12, 2019, 11:54 PM

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Yeah, discord is having issues

dusk dove Feb 12, 2019, 11:55 PM

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is discord ever not having some issue? 🤔

gentle bay Feb 13, 2019, 4:03 AM

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has anyone here setup an internal git server with git-lfs ?

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theres bonobo git which works on windows but its old and doesnt have lfs

errant moon Feb 13, 2019, 9:27 PM

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merging to 4.22, git is doing inexact rename detection on every commit I cherry-pick from my 4.21 changes, even though they mostly modify one file with the same path between the two
any idea what is going on there?
I have about 60 commits so it might add several hours onto my merge..

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I think I've had that in the past but only if the commit affected paths that had changed between versions, not for every commit

ruby latch Feb 14, 2019, 3:16 PM

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Are there any devops tools for ue4?

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Only Jenkins?

smoky trench Feb 14, 2019, 6:08 PM

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UE4 has a bunch of tools for dev ops. Gauntlet and BuildGraph are both great examples

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But those would still need to be integrated with a CI, like Jenkins, if you want the full experience.

cobalt cape Feb 15, 2019, 8:37 AM

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Hello, I am trying to debug the AutomationTool program for HTML5. Specifically, I am trying to get some breakpoints working on HTML5Platform.Automation.cs

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I can debug the UnrealBuildTool program, by adding some command line arguments and setting UnrealBuildTool as startup project

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However when I try to do the same with Automation Tool I can't get it to run

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is it possible to debug the AutomationTool program?

brittle smelt Feb 15, 2019, 9:29 AM

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I think you were looking for #engine-source, this one is for Git, SVN etc...

cobalt cape Feb 15, 2019, 9:32 AM

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ah, sorry, thank you @brittle smelt

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🤦

vague wren Feb 16, 2019, 2:17 PM

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What's the best & free thing to use for source control files storage thing?

burnt shadow Feb 16, 2019, 9:31 PM

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A solution I'm programmjng

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But that won't help you now

dusk dove Feb 16, 2019, 9:36 PM

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what is this solution

broken rain Feb 17, 2019, 10:27 PM

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Hey guys, how are you even using git lfs? I have poor upload speed (smth like 200kb/s while my project is 10GB right now), also I've tried to run custom git lfs server, but sadly lfs-client doesn't support ssh

dusk dove Feb 18, 2019, 1:34 AM

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you'll want to fix that upload speed first

broken rain Feb 18, 2019, 4:53 PM

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@dusk dove I have 200MB/s download and upload

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so thats strange

dusk dove Feb 18, 2019, 4:54 PM

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that's very strange

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where are you trying to upload it to?

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it was significantly faster than that when we used it a while ago (now we use perforce)

broken rain Feb 18, 2019, 4:55 PM

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private repo on github.com

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I've decided to go with a cloud solution for now, but I guess I will have to learn perforce

river orchid Feb 18, 2019, 11:15 PM

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I am using github for source control, I added folders to ignore from uploading but for some reason when I am trying to commit it, it still includes all those folders

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 1:48 PM

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hey im trying to setup perforce for native SC support, I have it installed and am using my local machine as the server. the p4 info cmd shows that it is setup properly. however when i try to connect to it from UE4 it says it failed

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any ideas?

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nvm, had to create a workspace

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 3:04 PM

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so for a pre-existing project, how would I get a client to access the project? Do they create a new UE4 project and then login to source control?

fiery prism Feb 19, 2019, 3:06 PM

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you'd login to their source control and download/pull

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if they don't have one, they'd make one.

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Or they can give you a zip and you make a SC

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 3:09 PM

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so as a client, do they login first via cmd?

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like im just wondering how they initially get the current project on to their machine

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or is it just the simple act of sending them a zip

fiery prism Feb 19, 2019, 3:11 PM

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Oh.

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Ongoing relationship?

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 3:11 PM

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and from that they login

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its complicated

fiery prism Feb 19, 2019, 3:12 PM

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Anyway yeah you just give them login credentials to the repo

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then they pull.

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When they open UE4, have them enter the credentials into the SC integration

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 3:12 PM

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it seems like by default theres zero credentials for perforce. could be wrong though

fiery prism Feb 19, 2019, 3:12 PM

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yeah you gotta add their user accounts.

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I think you have to have files on the server before you can do that

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 3:13 PM

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oh okay

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ill check out some p4 docs

fiery prism Feb 19, 2019, 3:13 PM

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what I like to do is push .p4ignore

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 3:13 PM

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whats that do?

fiery prism Feb 19, 2019, 3:13 PM

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just adds a file to the server without having all the files being initially submitted by superuser

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so you can push that, add user accts, then do the real init commit

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 3:14 PM

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i was wondering about that too, because it appears id have to sync every direct in current project to server

fiery prism Feb 19, 2019, 3:14 PM

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nah

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Binaries, Intermediate, Saved ... can all be skipped

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 3:15 PM

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so with perforce should i setup credentials first?

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i dont even know by server name, just the ports lol

fiery prism Feb 19, 2019, 3:15 PM

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If the client wants Binaries, you'll have to setup a typemap so that .exe and .dll can be modified locally without causing you issues.

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 3:15 PM

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ah

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i dont think that would be necessary in my case

fiery prism Feb 19, 2019, 3:16 PM

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https://allarsblog.com/2014/09/24/setup-perforce-digital/

Allar's Blog

Setting up version control (Perforce) for Unreal Engine 4 using Di...

A common question with Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is "how do you set up version control?" I think this is a very important question and if you have never used version control for your projects you are crippling yourself from the start. I won't go into details about why you

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here, just start here.

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also check the pins

jovial storm Feb 19, 2019, 3:20 PM

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alright, thank you

jolly fog Feb 20, 2019, 11:03 AM

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Hi I am trying to use github to store a copy of my stuff. What are the essential files to keep?

burnt dagger Feb 20, 2019, 12:43 PM

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@jolly fog Gitignore located here: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/UnrealEngine.gitignore (this is a list of things it doesn't need to keep)

jolly fog Feb 20, 2019, 12:47 PM

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almost everything I have is a umap or a uasset

valid moat Feb 21, 2019, 8:55 AM

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what does this sign mean?

📎 unknown.png

neat grotto Feb 21, 2019, 9:11 AM

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@valid moat It means the file is checked out on a branch.

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https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Engine/Basics/SourceControl/InEditor

valid moat Feb 21, 2019, 9:11 AM

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thanks!

dusk dove Feb 21, 2019, 9:12 AM

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does it prevent you from modifying the same asset on two different branches since you'll never be able to merge them?

wheat patrol Feb 21, 2019, 9:22 AM

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I will never get another chance at this. Saying #lounge to pfist 😛

neat grotto Feb 21, 2019, 9:23 AM

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Holy shit. I'm tired and in the wrong channel.

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lmao

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Incredible.

wheat patrol Feb 21, 2019, 9:23 AM

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😄

outer hinge Feb 22, 2019, 10:33 PM

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Hey everyone. I was working on a project in UE4 and my computer got a BSOD. The project is connected to a repo (working fine for months with no issue) - upon reboot I started getting VS 2017 to complain about a fatal git error. The error said the index file had been corrupted.

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So I fixed that after googling a bit, which made that error go away. Now however, I can't seem to push any commits

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I get these errors each time:
Pushing master
Error: cannot spawn .git/hooks/pre-push: No such file or directory
Error: waitpid for .git/hooks/pre-push failed: No child processes
Error: failed to push some refs to '[place holder]'
Error encountered while pushing to the remote repository: PushCommand.ExecutePushCommand

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Any ideas on how to fix this?

loud shore Feb 23, 2019, 1:47 PM

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@outer hinge will it happen if you created a new repo clone? Maybe it's just your current clone which got corrupted?

outer hinge Feb 23, 2019, 3:28 PM

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I finally got it. It was happening because I needed to force update the lfs hooks again

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After I did that it started to work

glad gulch Feb 24, 2019, 2:53 PM

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check in case you have git .lock file

vague whale Feb 24, 2019, 11:25 PM

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does anyone use the git plugin or simply use git outside of UE4?

visual nimbus Feb 25, 2019, 10:43 AM

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Is it possible to clone an exisiting depot from one perforce server to another?
Would I use fetch and clone for that?

fast veldt Feb 27, 2019, 10:50 PM

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I'm trying to setup a local backup to external hdd on windows. Ideally want to save everything, including assets. Any good solutions?

wide turtle Feb 28, 2019, 4:23 AM

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@fiery prism hey sorry to ask, ive been reading up on Perforce, seeing that it needs a server, which i do not have,

I'm working with others and we all have laptops so when we meet up, can we use a laptop to house everything?

molten marsh Feb 28, 2019, 4:39 AM

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@wide turtle You can run a Perforce server locally.

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I run a private one for myself in my garage.

wide turtle Feb 28, 2019, 4:40 AM

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but locally means the server has to be where we meet up ccorrect?

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@molten marsh if so, which can be done. we all have laptops, can can probably have a computer set up running the server