Plastic SCM
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Plastic SCM version control helps teams manage all changes in the projects codebase
Plastic SCM helps teams work together through all the software development lifecycle. Plastic SCM helps you deliver better products, faster! It has a leading user interface which lets the team visually manage all the versioning operations, greatly improving productivity while ensuring consistency and quality.
Multiple views on the GUI
Plastic 2.5 introduces a new and redesigned graphical user interface. The 2.0 GUI is clearly a step ahead on SCM graphical design. Say goodbye to all the arcane and boring GUIs with a tree on the left and extra info on the right... Enter the Plastic SCM multiple view system, which has been designed after carefully listening to our customers and trying to bring them a better experience.
Now you don't have to lose focus on common operations like listing changeset's contents, branches and so on...
Branch explorer
The Graphical Branch Explorer is one of the newest additions to Plastic SCM. It shows project's evolution from a repository point of view: all branches and their relationships can be displayed. Later on you can zoom at item's level using the 3D version tree.
With the branch explorer you can understand when releases are created, visualize changeset's and explore their contents, check what has been merged between two branches double clicking the merge arrows, filter information using different criteria, locate specific branches, highlight information and also run branch common operations like creating new ones, running merges, switching workspaces and so on.
Linux GUI
Plastic SCM 2.7 releases a full featured Linux GUI. The GUI has the same look and feel at the different supported platforms, and it looks superb on Linux. Have you ever seen such a good looking application at your Linux desktop?
We're totally committed to Linux, so now not only the command line and the server are available, but also the entirely new GUI.
Task tracking integration
Plastic SCM is integrated with task and issue tracking systems such us DevTrack, Jira, OnTime, DevTrack, Bugzilla, Mantis and Version One.
Whether you go for branching patterns like branch per task or you prefer to stay with changeset based development, Plastic will easily integrate with bug tracking systems to create full traceability from requirements to code.
Rich Eclipse integration
Are you an Eclipse developer? If so, you'll definitely love Plastic SCM integration with Eclipse.
We've developed a new Plug-in that implements the basic operations like check out, check in, find differences and checked out files and also advanced ones like full refactoring support, right workspace mapping between Plastic and Eclipse ones (whether it is one to one or one to many), the ability to explore Plastic branches and labels and configure Plastic workspaces within the Eclipse interface and many more.
Visual Studio 2008 support
Plastic SCM is fully integrated with Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008. From 2005 it fully supports refactor and move operations. Move your code inside Visual Studio and Plastic will also issue a move operation. Combine it with Plastic's merging capabilities and enforce refactoring at your team: don't be worried anymore about developers modifying files which have been renamed by another programmer... Plastic SCM will take care of it!
ACL based security
No other SCM is so flexible in terms of security. Plastic SCM implements ACL's based security. Every object managed by Plastic like revisions, items, branches, repositories and so on has an associated ACL and there are about 30 specific permissions available.
Now you can enforce development policies like who is able to commit to the main branch, apply a label or remove elements, defining the right ACLs with just a few clicks.
Statistics
Plastic 2.5 introduces a statistics module which gives you immediate information about which files are more often changed and who's making those modifications.
The statistics module presents information with a very attractive visual layout which helps exploring your repositories.
Query System
Plastic 2.5 implements a powerful SQL-like query language. Now it is very easy to perform queries to retrieve specific information, customize the views on the GUI or create extended statistics.
Distributed system
Plastic SCM 2.7 enables multi-site and distributed development. Plastic server can replicate branches from one server to another in two different ways: through direct server connection or using package based replication when security constraints discourage direct connection.
Replicated branches can be merged back together even when they've been modified in parallel.
The distributed support enables a wide range of scenarios: from roaming developers running their own lightweight Plastic server on their laptops, to full multi-site deployments where Plastic servers are synchronized periodically to serve geographically separated development teams.
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